page_title: Thomas Friant (ship)
section_title: Construction
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Friant (ship) / History / Construction
caption_attribution_description: English: The steamer Thomas Friant before she sank
context_page_description: Thomas Friant was a wooden-hulled ferry that served on the Great Lakes from her construction in 1884 to her sinking in 1924. In January 1924, while gillnetting out of Two Harbors, Minnesota in Lake Superior, she was holed by ice, and sank with no fatalities. In 2004 her wreck was discovered in over 300 feet of water in pristine condition. The wreck of Thomas Friant was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
context_section_description: Thomas Friant was built as a ferry in 1884 by Duncan Robertson in Grand Haven, Michigan for Reuben & Ralph Vanderhoef, also of Grand Haven. Her wooden hull was 96 feet (29 m) long, her beam was 18.25 feet (5.56 m) wide (some sources state the width as 18.30 feet (5.58 m)), and her hull was 7.66 feet (2.33 m) deep (some sources state her hull's depth as 7.80 feet (2.38 m)). She had a gross register tonnage of 81.42 tons, and a net register tonnage of 46.20 tons. She was powered by a 315 horsepower (235 kW), 18 x 20 high pressure compound steam engine built by the Grand Haven Engine Works of Grand Haven, that was fired by a single firebox boiler that was built by the Johnson Brothers of Ferrysburg, Michigan.
caption: Thomas Friant as a fish tug
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