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A two part article on the "Life and Times of the Bessemer Fleet" was in the March-April 1978 issue of Telescope: https://images.maritimehistoryofthegrea ... 3/data?n=7 (PDF download is on the right side of page.)

The second was in the May-June 1978 issue
https://images.maritimehistoryofthegrea ... 4/data?n=2

And William you're correct, for some reason I wrote down a large block "P", when it obviously should be a "B". It was white, btw.

- Brian

The hulls were red, cabins white while the funnel was black with a large block letter "P".

Actually the funnel livery consisted of a somewhat stylized white letter "B." Here is a detail from a photograph showing the Samuel F. B. Morse at Manitowoc loading grain in July 1900.

If I remember correctly wasn't Bessemer owned by John D. Rockefeller or another one of the big business tycoons during that time period?

Were they associated with the Bessemer and Lake Erie RR?

The hulls were red, cabins white while the funnel was black with a large block letter "P".

Brian

What was the Bessemer steamship company's color scheme?