Ridgetown

The Ridgetown was a Great Lakes freighter built in 1905 as the William E. Corey for the Pittsburgh Steamship Co. She was launched on March 24th, 1905 by the Chicago Shipbuilding Co. in Chicago, Illinois as Hull #67 at 569 feet (173 meters) long, and 56 feet (17 meters) in beam. She had a triple expansion steam engine that was built by the American Ship Building Company with 1800 IHP. She entered service on August 17th, 1905. In her first year of service, she went hard aground on the Gull Island Reef of the Apostle Islands on November 28th, 1905 during the Mataafa Storm, which lasted from November 27th-28th. After the storm, she was recovered and repaired. In 1937, 2 water tube boilers were installed by the Babcock & Wilcox Co, and she was rebuilt in 1940. Her fleet relocated to Delaware, making her home port Wilimington, Delaware. In 1951, her fleet merged into U.S. Steel, and her port of register was now New York, NY. She was sold to the Upper Lakes Shipping Company in 1963, and renamed Ridgetown, and port of register was once again changed to London, England. In 1970, she was sold to the Canadian Dredge & Dock Co. and was sunk as a temporary breakwater at Nanticoke, Ontario while a plant was being built for Ontario Hydro. The Ridgetown was raised in 1973 and was towed to Toronto, Ontario and sunk once again as a breakwater at Port Credit, Ontario, where she lies today.

Refrences
http://www.greatlakesvesselhistory.com/histories-by-name/c/corey-william-e

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_William_E._Corey

https://greatlakeships.org/3657130/data?n=1