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City of Boyne

Also City of Boyne · May Blossom

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TypeVessel
RigSteam-powered passenger vessel
Dates1883 – 1916
ErasModern era
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Vessel
Rig
Steam-powered passenger vessel
Dates
1883 – 1916
Length
87.8 ft
Beam
19.7 ft
Gross tonnage
121
Official no.
140644
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
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Summary

The March 1975 Beaver Beacon describes the City of Boyne as a wooden steam-powered passenger vessel built at Grand Haven in 1883 and originally named May Blossom. It reports an 87.8-foot overall length, 19.7-foot beam, 7.8-foot draft, official number 140644, gross tonnage 121, net tonnage 82, a five-person crew, and 45 horsepower. The source says it served the Beaver Island run through 1916 after earlier Charlevoix-area service.

Evidence and limits

The technical fields preserve only values that map cleanly to the current vessel schema; draft, net tonnage, crew size, and horsepower remain in the cited prose. This is a source-qualified historical vessel record, not a registry extract, and the vessel’s later disposition is unknown.

Sources

  1. Reports that the vessel was built at Grand Haven in 1883, originally named May Blossom, had official number 140644, measured 87.8 feet overall with a 19.7-foot beam and 7.8-foot draft, had gross tonnage 121 and net tonnage 82, carried a crew of five, and developed 45 horsepower. It says the vessel served Charlevoix–Boyne routes and later the Beaver Island run through 1916. The article is a retrospective and does not provide an enrollment record or disposition after 1916. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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  2. The held issue confirms the printed vessel-history account and specifications.
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Added 3 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “City of Boyne”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/vessels/city-of-boyne-1975/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, March 1975, “Beaver Tales.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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