NORTHLAND (Cinderella stamp)

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NORTHLAND ( NORTH LAND)

Built in 1895 by Globe Iron Works of Cleveland, Ohio for the Northern Steamship Company. One of two sister-ships.

GRT: 4244

Originally built with three funnels. By 1910 she had two funnels as depicted on the stamp.

In 1905 was running a passenger service between Buffalo and Chicago.

In 1895 Mark Twain, whilst travelling on his own tour of America, boarded the newly-built North Land in Cleveland. Bound for Mackinac Island and Duluth, Twain wrote: "All that has been said of this fine ocean ship on the Great Lakes is not exaggerated."

The North Land had been built to undertake the round voyage between Buffalo and Duluth in a week and her owners, the Northern Steamship Company, became the first to introduce seven day cruises.

The seven day cruise would not reach Miami until 1927. The motto of the Northern Steamship Company was "In all the world no trip like this," which was changed (only briefly) during the Spanish-American War to "No Spanish cruisers in our waters."

Scrapped in 1921.

Sources: Some interesting newspaper articles from the 1895 era.

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-fr ... 94649ED7CF

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-fr ... 94649ED7CF

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-fr ... 94649ED7CF

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-fr ... 94639ED7CF

Peter Crichton