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Norhilda wreck reveals pulpwood trade to Oswego
Maritime historian Richard Palmer recounts prewar Great Lakes pulpwood traffic led by the tramp steamer Norhilda. Built in 1910 in England, she carried pulpwood from Anticosti Island to Oswego, later transporting grain from Fort William during WWI before being torpedoed in 1917 off Newfoundland with all hands lost.
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Great Lakes
Nottilda
Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson
River Tyne
England
Anicosti Island
Lower St. Lawrence River
Oswego
Lakes
Calais
France
New York City
Sydney
Nova Scotia
Quebec
Bersminus
Hammermill Paper Co
Erie
Granby Paper Co
Fulton
Anticosti Island
Norhilda
Thrya Menier
Querida
Fort William
Lake Superior
Belgium
Oswego Daily Times
Sweden
Europe
Granby Paper Company
Lower St. Lawrence
St. Lawrence
S.H. Jones
Santo Domingo
Montreal
Jones
British Isles
North Atlantic
Tyne
U.S. Mergersison II
Drifter Boy
Scarborough
Donald Steamship Company
C. Tennant, Sons & Co. Ltd
Bristol
J. Cory & Sons
Cardiff
Carl Racey
Yorshire
Oswego Harbor