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|Ship image=Howard M. Hanna Jr.jpg
|Ship caption=''Howard M. Hanna Jr.'' underway 
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{{Infobox ship career
|Ship header=
|Ship name=*''Howard M. Hanna Jr.'' (1908-1915)
*''Glenshee'' (1915-1926)
*''Marquette'' (1926-1926)
*''Goderich'' (1926-1963)
*''Agawa'' (1963-1968)
*''Lionel Parsons'' (1968-1983)
|Ship country=United States
|Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United States|merchant}}
|Ship operator=*Hanna Transit Company (1908-1915)
*Canada Steamship Lines (1915-1962)
*Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway Company (1962-1968)
*Goderich Elevator Company (1968-1983)
|Ship ordered=
|Ship registry={{flag|United States|civil}}
|Ship builder=[[Cleveland Shipbuilding Company]]
|Ship yard number=
|Ship laid down=
|Ship launched=28 April 1908
|Ship completed=1908
|Ship identification=U.S. Registry #205260
|Ship acquired=
|Ship in service=1908
|Out of service=1983
|Ship fate=Scrapped in 1983 as the ''Lionel Parsons''
|Ship notes=}}
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|Header caption=
|Ship type=[[Lake freighter]]
|Ship tonnage=*5,905 gross
|Ship displacement=
|Ship length={{convert|500|ft|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship beam={{convert|54|ft|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship height={{convert|30|ft|m|abbr=on}}
|Ship draught=
|Ship draft=
|Ship ice glass=
|Ship sail plan=
|Ship power=2 x [[Scotch marine boiler]]s
|Ship propulsion=[[Triple expansion steam engine]]
|Ship speed=10 knots
|Ship capacity=9,200 tons
|Ship crew=25
|Ship notes=Owned by four companies
}}
|}

'''''Howard M. Hanna Jr.''''' was a {{convert|500|ft|m|abbr=on}} Great Lakes freighter that had a lengthy, 75-year career on the [[Great Lakes]] of Canada and America. ''Hanna'' was a product of the [[Cleveland Shipbuilding Company]] of [[Cleveland]], Ohio. The ship was commissioned by the Richardson Transportation Company to haul iron ore, coal and grain. She had a cargo capacity of 9,200 tons of bulk cargo, or 323,000 bushels of grain.<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://www.greatlakesvesselhistory.com/histories-by-name/h/hanna-jr-howard-m-1/
 |title=Hanna Jr., Howard M.
 |website=Great Lakes Vessel history
 |access-date=7 January 2018
}}</ref>

==1913 storm==
[[File:The Howard M. Hanna Jr. after the 1913 storm.jpg|200px|thumb|left|The ''Howard M. Hanna'' Jr. on the Port Austin Reef after the great storm of 1913]]
On 8 November 1913 the ''Hanna'' was laden with a cargo of coal bound from Lorain, Ohio, to Fort William, entered [[Lake Huron]] in the early hours of November 9. The crew of ''Hanna'' had no idea that in a few hours, they would encounter the worst storm in Great Lakes history.<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://www.leelanaunews.com/news/2013-02-28/Life_in_Leelanau/The_perfect_storm_100_years_ago.html
 |title=The perfect storm 100 years ago
 |website=leelanaunews
 |access-date=2 February 2018
}}</ref> While much larger ships sank, such as [[SS James Carruthers|''James Carruthers'']], the ''Hanna'' was caught in the trough of a large wave, rolled over, and was tossed ashore near [[Port Austin, Michigan]].<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://perdurabo10.tripod.com/ships2/id224.html
 |title=Howard M. Hanna Jr.
 |website=Perdurabo10
 |access-date=2 February 2018
}}</ref> The ''Hanna'' sustained a lot of damage including smashed windows and various topside damage. The ship's hull cracked at the 17th hatch, was flooded aft, and the smokestack came crashing down over the aft deckhouse. All 25 crew members on board survived and were later rescued. The bad weather that winter made it impossible to refloat the ship until the following year.<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://greatlakes.bgsu.edu/vessel/view/003880
 |title=Hanna, Howard M., Jr.
 |website=Bowling State Green University
}}</ref>

==After the storm==

In 1914 the ''Hanna'' was taken to Collingwood then to Midland for major repairs. She did not sail until 1915 when she was purchased by the Great Lakes Transit Company and resumed service as SS ''Glenshee''. On 13 October 1916 the ship grounded in the [[St. Marys River (Michigan–Ontario)|St. Mary's River]]. On 1 October 1926 the ship joined the Canada Steamship Lines fleet and was renamed ''Marquette''. The following spring the vessel was renamed ''Goderich'', and she continued to haul bulk cargoes.

==Collisions==

On 5 June 1943 ''Goderich'' had a collision with the {{convert|620|ft|m|adj=on}} long American grain carrier {{SS|Frank Armstrong||2}} (the ''Armstrong'' was on her maiden voyage) in the [[St. Marys River (Michigan–Ontario)|St. Mary's River]]. Both ships were badly damaged and needed a lot of repairs. On 25 July 1945, ''Goderich'' collided with [[SS Henry A. Hawgood|''W.W. Holloway'']] on [[Lake Superior]].<ref>{{cite web
 |url=http://www.vos.noaa.gov/MWL/apr_08/shipwreck.shtml
 |title=Shipwreck: HOWARD M. HANNA JR.
 |website=noaa.gov
 |access-date=7 January 2018
}}</ref>

==Final years==

In 1962 ''Goderich'' was tied up in Quebec awaiting scrapping in Europe. Eventually the Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway Company bought the ship and renamed her ''Agawa'' in April 1963. ''Agawa'' sailed until 1967, when she was laid up in Goderich full of grain. In 1968 ''Agawa'' was sold to the Goderich Elevator Company for use as a storage barge. Renamed ''Lionel Parsons'', the ship was used for another 15 years until it was no longer needed. The tug ''W.J. Ivan Purvis'' escorted her from Goderich, to [[Thunder Bay]], Ontario. She arrived in the scrapyard on 3 June 1983.<ref>{{cite web
 |url=https://daleymcdougall.wordpress.com/2012/12/26/collingwood-shipbuilding-and-the-howard-m-hanna-jr/
 |title=Collingwood Shipbuilding and the Howard M. Hanna Jr.
 |website=McDougall's Whaleback
 |access-date=27 January 2018
}}</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Maritime incidents in 1913]]
[[Category:Ships powered by a triple expansion steam engine]]