The Geo.R.Donovan was built at Haverton Hill shipyard. The keel was laid on 11th February 1926 and the ship was launched on 27th April 1926. 
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The Geo.R.Donovan was built at Haverton Hill shipyard. The keel was laid on 11th February 1926 and the ship was launched on 27th April 1926.
This ship may have sailed on the Great Lakes as its homeport was Fort William(now called Thunder Bay), Ontario, at the entrance to Lake Superior. However, it was renamed “Kenordoc” in 1939 and subsequently sunk by U boat while in a convoy from Quebec to Bristol in Sept 1940.
A really interesting ship. With engines aft and the pilot house right up in the bows it looks like a Great Lakes steamer used for carrying iron ore from Duluth, on Lake Superior to the steel making centres like Detroit, Erie and Cleveland. Getting it there would probably mean dimantling it unless it was small enough to fit the Welland Canal.