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MANISTEE – The name Manistee may have originated in northwest Michigan, but that’s not the only place it can be found.
A number of ships are named after the city, with some ships calling at locations ranging from Toledo, Ohio, to Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan.
Here are six ships that have been named Manistee:
• Manistee (1867)
Built in 1867 by EM Peck Shipbuilders, of Cleveland Ohio, the Manistee was a 184-foot ocean liner that went missing between November 15 and 16, 1883 on Lake Superior.
The Manistee is said to have sunk with no surviving crew or passengers. It is estimated that at the time of the sinking, six passengers and 24 crew members were probably killed.
The cause of the sinking is still unknown and the sunk ship has not been discovered.
“The steamer left Bayfield for Ontanogaon at around 8:00 p.m., when we have heard no further, except through large quantities of wrecks which have been found floating between Ontonagon and Keewenaw Point, which does without any doubt part of the upper works of the accident. steam doomed to failure.
Among the wreckage debris was one of the steamboat’s lifeboats and five buckets marked “Manistee”, “says part of the annual report of the Inspector General overseeing the Ship Inspection Service. Steam to Secretary of Commerce with the year ending June 30, 1884.
• Manistee (1882)
Like the previous entry, and others on this list, this 202-foot steamboat has been lost – but unlike the other Manistee, the location of this shipwreck is well known.
Built in 1882, the ship was destroyed by fire on June 28, 1914. Her wreck is near the shore of Lake Spring in Michigan.
Eyewitnesses at the time saw the vessel burn, according to MichiganShipwrecks.com, as the Manistee undocked from its dock. It drifted along some paths, nearly colliding with a passenger ship before landing on a sandbar.
In addition to the ship, all personal effects and thousands of dollars in valuables were lost and at least two crew members were badly burned, according to MichiganShipwrecks.com.
The Manistee wreck was investigated in May 2008 by the Michigan Shipwreck Research Association and the Nautilus Marine Group.
• HMS Manistee (1920)
The ship that would become HMS Manistee was originally launched by the banana boat company Elders and Fyffes Ltd. in 1920. It was the second of four ships built by Elders and Fyffes that would bear this name.
For about 20 years, the SS Manistee carried cargo, mail and a few passengers between the port of Bristol in England and Central America and Jamaica.
On July 7, 1940, the defensively equipped merchant ship successfully repelled an attack by the German submarine U-99, according to Uboat.net. He was returning unescorted from Cameroon.
Later that year, the Manistee was requisitioned by the British Admiralty to serve in World War II as a convoy escort. With flag number F 104, the ship was commanded by Lieutenant Commander Eric Haydn Smith of the Royal Naval Reserve.
HMS Manistee served in the Battle of the Atlantic, until she was sunk by U-107 on February 23, 1941. The 141 on board were considered lost.
It was the second ship called Manistee by Elders and Fyffes to be sunk by a submarine, the first having taken place 23 years earlier in 1917.
• USS Manistee – YTB 173 (1941)
The first US Navy ship to bear the Manistee name, this harbor tug was first built in 1941 by TS Marvel and Co. for Meseck Towing Lines, Inc., of New York.
It was purchased by the US Navy for $ 285,000 in May 1941 and commissioned as the Manistee in August of that year in New York Harbor, according to tugboatinformation.com.
Throughout WWII, the ship helped ensure an efficient flow of entry and exit from congested New York Harbor. She was decommissioned in August 1946 and sold to Carrie Meseck, her former owner, to continue serving in the port.
• Manistee (1943)
Among the larger vessels to bear this name, this 620-foot bulk carrier was built by Great Lake Engineering Works, River Rouge, at a cost of $ 2.2 million, according to boatnerd.com.
Commissioned by the Maritime Commission and launched in 1943, this laker was originally called Adirondack. Primarily a vessel carrying coal, the vessel would undergo a number of name changes as it passed between owners.
He became Manistee in 2005 and was decommissioned at Toledo Ohio in December 2015. He currently resides alongside the American Valor at the Port of Toledo, according to the National Great Lakes Museum website.
• Manistee – YTB 782 (1965)
Launched in October 1965, it is the second naval harbor tug to bear the Manistee name.
It was commissioned, alongside another newly built tug, the Redwing, at Naval Station San Diego, California. There he was fitted with special equipment to work on the Navy’s nuclear-powered submarines.
There he stayed with the 11th Naval District, where he assisted the Navy’s largest ships in the 1990s.
At the end of the decade, Manistee was transferred to Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan, where he remains on active duty.
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