The list of ships owned and operated by Pickands Mather consists of barges and freighters operating on the Great Lakes in the United States and Canada. Vessels include those owned by the Marine Department of Pickands Mather & Company from the company's founding in 1883 until its sale to Diamond Shamrock Corporation in 1968; those owned by Diamond Shamrock Corporation until the sale of the subsidiary to Moore-McCormack Resources in 1973; those owned by Moore-McCormack Resources until the sale of the Pickands Mather subsidiary to Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. in 1986; and those owned by Cleveland-Cliffs until the spinoff of the Interlake Steamship Company subsidiary in 1987.
The list includes vessels owned personally by the owners of Pickands Mather and directly by Pickands Mather, as well as those owned by its subsidiaries. These include some vessels owned by the Interlake Steamship Company. This company was a subsidiary of Pickands Mather from the subsidiary's founding in 1894 until its spinning off as an independent corporation in 1987. It does not include vessels operated by Interlake Steamship since 1987. It also does not include vessels operated by other companies prior to their merger with Interlake, but does include those brought to the merger with Interlake and thereafter operated by Interlake.
| Name | Class and type | Owner | In service | Out of service | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cetus | Steel-hulled bulk freight steamship | Interlake Steamship Company | 1903; 1927[1] | 1923;[2] 1943 | Reconstructed in 1928; traded to the United States Maritime Commission for a new vessel; scrapped 1946. |
| Charles M. Beeghly | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1967[3] | 1987 | Sold in 1987 as part of the spin off of the Interlake Steamship Company in a management buyout; repowered in 2009; renamed Hon. James L. Oberstar in 2011.[4] |
| Col. James M. Schoonmaker | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1969 | 1972 | Sold to Cleveland-Cliffs and renamed Willis B. Boyer;[5] retired from service in 1980; renamed Col. James M. Schoonmaker in 2011 and now a ship museum in Toledo.[6] |
| Corvus | Steel-hulled bulk freight steamship | Interlake Steamship Company | 1913[7] | 1943 | Reconstructed in 1925; traded to the United States Maritime Commission for a new vessel; scrapped 1946. |
| Cygnus | Steel-hulled bulk freight steamship | Interlake Steamship Company | 1913 | 1943 | Reconstructed in 1925; traded to the United States Maritime Commission for a new vessel; scrapped 1946. |
| Cyprus | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Lackawanna Steamship Company | 1907 | 1907 | Foundered October 11, 1907, off Deer Park, Michigan, in Lake Superior. |
| E. A. S. Clarke | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1916 | 1970 | Formerly the Interlake vessel H.P. Bope; renamed E.A.S. Clarke in 1916;[8] sold in 1970 to Kinsman Marine Transit Co.[9] and renamed Kinsman Voyager;[10] sold for scrap in 1975[11] and towed to Hamburg, Germany; used as storage barge and scrapped in Spain in 1978. |
| E. G. Grace | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company[12] | 1943 | 1976 | Retired in 1976; scrapped in 1984. |
| Elton Hoyt 2nd (1906) | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1930 | 1966 | Renamed Alex D. Chisholm in 1952; sold to Medusa Portland Cement in 1966 and renamed Medusa Challenger in 1967; went through several ownership and name changes, and now named St. Mary's Challenger and owned by St. Mary's Cement Inc. |
| Elton Hoyt 2nd (1952) | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1952 | 1987 | Lengthened by 72feet in 1957; converted to self-unloader in 1980; sold in 1987 as part of the spin off of the Interlake Steamship Company in a management buyout. |
| Frank Armstrong | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1943[13] | 1976 | Converted to oil in 1973; renamed Samuel Mather; sold in 1987 as part of the spin off of the Interlake Steamship Company in a management buyout. |
| Frank Purnell (1943; later Steelton) | Flat-deck bulk carrier | Interlake Steamship Company | 1943[14] | 1966[15] | Traded to Bethlehem Steel for the Steelton; renamed Steelton in 1966; sold to Medusa Cement in 1978, and renamed C.T.C. No. 1. Depowered in 1982; served as a cement barge until 2009; as of 2020 docked, unused, in Calumet Harbor.[16] |
| Frank Purnell (1943; formerly Steelton) | Flat-deck bulk carrier | Interlake Steamship Company | 1966 | 1970 | Sold in 1970 to Oglebay Norton's Columbia Transportation Division and renamed Robert C. Norton; scrapped in 1994. |
| H.P. Bope | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1913 | 1916 | Renamed E.A.S. Clarke in 1916. |
| Harry Coulby (1927) | Flat-deck bulk carrier | Interlake Steamship Company | 1927[17] | 1987 | Converted to oil in 1977; sold in 1987 as part of the spin off of the Interlake Steamship Company in a management buyout; sold to Kinsman Lines, Inc. in 1989 and renamed Kinsman Enterprise; scrapped in 2002. |
| Herbert C. Jackson | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1959[18] | 1987 | Sold in 1987 as part of the spin off of the Interlake Steamship Company in a management buyout.[19] |
| Hydrus (1913) | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1913 | 1913[20] | Foundered about November 8, 1913, on the Michigan side of Lake Huron during the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. |
| Hydrus (1916) | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1916 | 1926 | Sold in 1926 to Paterson Steamships, Ltd.; renamed Windoc in 1927; retired and sold for scrap in 1967.[21] |
| J. L. Mauthe | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1952 | 1987 | Sold in 1987 as part of the spin off of the Interlake Steamship Company in a management buyout; converted in 1998 to self-unloading barge Pathfinder. |
| James R. Barker | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1976[22] | 1987 | Sold in 1987 as part of the spin off of the Interlake Steamship Company in a management buyout. |
| John Sherwin | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1958 | 1987 | Lengthened in 1972; sold in 1987 as part of the spin off of the Interlake Steamship Company in a management buyout. |
| Lagonda | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1916 | 1941 | Sold to the American Steamship Company in 1941; scrapped in 1958. |
| Mesabi Miner | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1977[23] | 1987 | Sold in 1987 as part of the spin off of the Interlake Steamship Company in a management buyout. |
| Moses Taylor | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company[24] | 1916 | 1926[25] | Sold in 1926 to Paterson Steamships Ltd., named changed to Soodoc,[26] scrapped in 1968.[27] |
| Pathfinder | Whaleback steamship | Huron Barge Co. | 1892 | 1920 | Sold to Nicholson Universal Steamship Company; converted to flat-deck carrier in 1924, sold for scrap in 1933. |
| Pegasus | Steel-hulled bulk freight steamship | Interlake Steamship Company | 1916[28] | 1943 | Reconstructed in 1925; traded to the U.S. Maritime Commission in 1943; scrapped in 1946. |
| Robert R. Rhodes | Wooden bulk steamship | Pickands Mather | 1889 | 1900 | Wrecked October 24, 1921, after striking the upper gates to Lock 3 in the Welland Canal. |
| Samuel Mather (1887) | Wooden bulk steamship | Pickands Mather | 1887 | 1891 | Sank November 21, 1891, in Whitefish Bay, Lake Superior, after colliding with the Brazil. |
| Samuel Mather (1892) | Self-propelled whaleback barge built to carry iron ore. | Pickands Mather | 1892 | 1924 | Refitted as self-unloader in 1923–1924; sank September 21–22, 1924, sank off Thunder Bay Island, Michigan, in Lake Huron.[29] |
| Samuel Mather (1976) | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1976 | 1987 | Converted to oil in 1973; sold in 1987 as part of the spin off of the Interlake Steamship Company in a management buyout; sold for scrap in 1988. |
| Saturn | Steel-hulled bulk freight steamship | Interlake Steamship Company | 1916 | 1943 | Reconstructed in 1913; traded to the U.S. Maritime Commission in 1943; scrapped in 1947. |
| Taurus | Steel-hulled bulk freight steamship | Interlake Steamship Company | 1913 | 1943 | Reconstructed in 1925; traded to the U.S. Maritime Commission in 1943; scrapped in 1946. |
| V. H. Ketchum | Wooden bulk steamship | Pickands Mather | 1883 | 1892[30] | Sold to other investors; last owned by Seither Transit Company; burned in 1905 off Ile Parisienne, Whitefish Bay, Lake Superior.[31] |
| Vega | Steel-hulled bulk freight steamship | Interlake Steamship Company | 1916 | 1943 | Traded to the U.S. Maritime Commission in 1943; scrapped in 1946. |
| Venus | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1913[32] | 1941 | Reconstructed and fitted with cranes in 1927; leased to Boland & Cornelius in 1941;[33] sold to Lake Shore Steel of Chicago in 1958;[34] scrapped in 1961. |
| William B. Davock | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1915 | 1940[35] | Foundered November 11, 1940, off Little Sable Point Light on the Michigan side of Lake Michigan. |
| William J. De Lancey | Conventional dry bulk Lake freighter | Interlake Steamship Company | 1981[36] | 1987 | Sold in 1987 as part of the spin off of the Interlake Steamship Company in a management buyout; renamed Paul R. Tregurtha in 1990.[37] |
| Name | Class and type | Owner | In service | Out of service | Fate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buffalo | Unpowered sailless barge | Pickands Mather | 1898 | 1908 | Retired/scrapped. |
| Sagamore (1892) | Whaleback steamship barge | Huron Barge Co. | 1892 | 1901 | Sank 29 July 1901 near Iroquois Point on the Michigan side of Whitefish Bay, Lake Superior, in a collision with the Northern Queen. |
| Sagamore (1904) | Unpowered sailless steel barge | Huron Barge Co. | 1903[38] | 1922 | Sold in 1922 to Pringle Barge Line; sold in 1947 to N.M. Peterson and renamed Kenordoc; scrapped in 1957. |
| Tycoon | Unpowered sailless barge | Pickands Mather | 1901 | 1916 | Not known. |