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Great Lakes Maritime Antiquity of the
Week
Imperial Sized Stereoview
– Steamer Nyack - 1878
This grainy stereoview arrived today. It shows an early arch-sided steamer with no nameboard and no markings on the card. The card is imperial sized with two separate panels, dating it to the late 1870s or early 1880s. Unfortunately, it has no maker info or writing. The only easily discernable identification on the vessel is a large name "The Union Steamboat Company." I am quite familiar with the Union company but they had a lot of vessels.
After putting the card under my dissecting scope, I was able to make out the name Nyack just under the right window of the pilothouse. This is a very early and previously unknown view of the 231 ft. wooden passenger and package freight steamer Nyack, probably at Duluth. She was built in 1878 at Buffalo, NY for the Union Steamboat Company. She had a very long career, running first to Lake Superior and later on Lake Michigan. She was rebuilt a number of times, finally being cut down to a barge in 1918.
She was abandoned in 1931 at Sturgeon Bay and in 1932 was towed to Summer Island along with the derelict hull of the steamer Georgia where they joined the hull of the Mattie C. Bell to make a breakwall for the Northwest Sand and Gravel Company's quarry dock.
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