Weston Transit Company
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The 600-foot steel lake freighter, the LeGrand S. DeGraff, built in Lorain, Ohio, for the Weston Transit Company of North Tonawanda. LeGrand S. DeGraff and Charles Weston, the lumberman, were partners in the lake freighter business. The ship was launched by the American Shipbuilding Company at Lorain, Ohio, on June 1, 1907. The ship was struck by the SONORA while berthed at the Lackawanna Coal Dock on May 20, 1909, causing $4,000 damage to the DEGRAFF. Renamed the George W. Crawford in 1911, it remained under that name until scrapped in 1975. |
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Some of the business's principals in the interior of the ship. |
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Lake Erie U.S. mail ship out of the City of Cleveland, part of the Weston Transit fleet. |
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From a souvenir card commenorating the launhing on June 1, 1907, the original card having had a postmark of June 9, 1908, from Elyria, Ohio. |