Steamer City of South Haven Great Lakes Postcard

Steamer City of South Haven Chicago-South Haven Line Vintage Post Card restored and enhanced by Scenes from the Past. A SFTP EXCLUSIVE! SS City of South Haven was built in 1903 by Craig Shipbuilding of Toledo, Ohio for Dunkley-Williams and Company of South Haven, Michigan. She was sold to the Chicago and South Haven Steamship Company of Chicago, Illinois in 1906. City of South Haven operated commercially on the Great Lakes, primarily Lake Michigan, until early 1918. The United States military naval branch purchased SS City of South Haven on 19 April 1918 at Manistee, Michigan. She underwent a conversion into naval service at Kraft Shipyard and Dry Dock Company of Chicago, Illinois. USS City of South Haven was commissioned on 9 November 1918, two days before the Armistice that ended World War I. Following her brief stint in the service of our government, SS City of South Haven would change names and ownership a number of times before finally returning to the Great Lakes. She was scrapped in 1942.