Of the many creations of Alexander McDougall, only a few of them remain for viewing in one form or another. The the Meteor (originally the Frank Rockefeller), the tugboat Islay, and though not fully McDougall’s design, the Day Peckinpaugh., formerly the I.L.I. 101 (the initials stood for “Interwaterways Line Incorporated”), and the Michigan, formerly the I.L.I. 105. The latter boats were a series of designs intended to operate both on the Great Lakes and the New York State Barge Canal. McDougall’s major backer for the McDougall-Duluth Company, Julius Barnes, went forward from the company’s original vessel the Robert L. Barnes to create these vessels. Constructed from 1920-1922 at the Duluth yards, they were the last vessels built there during its first phase of operation.

The final vessel built, the I.L.I. 105 was renamed the Michigan in the 1930s and vanished from documentation during the 1970s. From some contacts, I am pretty certain that the remnants of the vessel are lying partially scrapped in the famous ship graveyard of the Arthur Kill near Staten Island, directly behind the Fresh Kills landfill. The company the last owners had sold the hull to for scrapping went out of business before it completed the scrapping process.

I have heard that the remains left at this site are either going to be or are currently being disposed of to clear the waterway. What the impact of Superstorm Sandy has been on these hulls is unknown at this time. The ghosts of the Arthur Kill will not last forever.The I.L.I. 105 as originally configured – sometime in the 1920s.
And then later on after being renamed and reconfigured.
Aerial view from Bing maps in 2011.
And then sent to me from a blogger from closer up. Fresh Kills Landfill in the background where the 9/11 debris was examined.