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|Ship name=* ''Sankaty'' (1911–1947)
* ''Charles A. Dunning'' (1947–1964)
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|Ship owner=* New Bedford, Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket Steamboat Company (1911–1924)
* New England Steamship Company (1924–1925)
* Snow Marine Company (1925–1931)
* Stamford-Oyster Bay Ferries Corporation (1931–1940)
* Northumberland Ferries (1947–1964)
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|Ship registry= * {{flagicon|USA|1912}} [[New Bedford, Massachusetts]] (1911–1925)
* {{flagicon|USA|1912}} [[Rockland, Maine]] (1925–1931)
* {{flagicon|USA|1912}} [[Bridgeport, Connecticut]] (1931–1940)
* {{flagicon|Canada|1921}} [[Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island]] (1947–1964)
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|Ship country=Canada
|Ship name=''Sankaty''
|Ship acquired=1940
|Ship commissioned=September 24, 1940 
|Ship decommissioned= August 18, 1945
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'''''Sankaty''''' (a.k.a. '''HMCS ''Sankaty''''', a.k.a. '''''Charles A. Dunning''''') was a [[propeller]]-driven [[Steamboat|steamer]] that served as a [[ferry]] to [[Martha's Vineyard]] and [[Nantucket]] in [[Massachusetts]]; in [[Rockland, Maine]]; [[Stamford, Connecticut]] and [[Oyster Bay (hamlet), New York|Oyster Bay]], [[Long Island]] in the United States from 1911 to 1940. During [[World War II]], the ship was requisitioned by the [[Royal Canadian Navy]] for service as a [[minelayer]] and maintenance vessel along the [[Atlantic Canada|Canadian Atlantic coast]]. Following the war the ship returned to a ferry, working the  [[Wood Islands, Prince Edward Island]] and [[Caribou, Nova Scotia]] route in Canada from 1947 until 1964. While being towed to the [[Ship breaking|breaker's yard]], the ship sank off the coast of [[Nova Scotia]] on October 27, 1964.

==Description==
''Sankaty'' was designed by Chauncey G. Whiton.<ref name="Dayton1925">{{citation
 | chapter-url = http://sdr.lib.umich.edu/cgi/m/mdp/pt?seq=102&view=image&size=100&id=mdp.39015020219674&u=1&num=245
 | title = Steamboat Days
 | first1 = Fred Erving
 | last1 = Dayton
 | chapter = Nantucket Sound
 | publisher = Frederick A. Stokes company
 | pages = 245–46
 | year = 1925
}}</ref> The ship was {{convert|195|ft|m}} long,<ref name="Dayton1925"/> a slim vessel with twin [[propeller]]s and twin [[Funnel (ship)|smokestacks]].<ref name=autogenerated1>''The Dukes County Intelligencer''. Vol. 7, No. 4. May 1966</ref> She had a {{convert|36|ft|m|adj=on}} [[Beam (nautical)|beam]],<ref>Douglas-Lithgow, Robert Alexander. ''Nantucket, A History'' G. P. Putnam, 1914.</ref> and {{convert|32|ft|m|0}} at the [[waterline]] and drew {{convert|9|ft|6|in|m|1}} of water. The ship had a depth of [[Hold (ship)|hold]] of {{convert|13|ft|m}}.<ref name="Dayton1925"/> The ship had a [[gross register tonnage]] (GRT) of 657 tons. ''Sankaty'' rolled much more than the sidewheelers that preceded it. Because of this, the ladies' parlor and toilet was situated on the upper deck in a location to reduce the motion and vibration while on the rough waters of [[Vineyard Sound]].<ref name=autogenerated3 /><ref name="miramar">{{csr|register=MSI|id=2208399|shipname=Sankaty |accessdate=6 May 2018}}</ref>

The ship was powered by a [[triple expansion engine]] fed by steam from four Almy [[water-tube boiler]]s turning the two propellers. The ship had a maximum speed of {{convert|16|mph|kn|order=flip|lk=on}}.<ref name="Dayton1925"/> In Canadian naval service, the ship had [[Displacement (ship)|standard displacement]] of {{convert|459|LT|t}}, a [[Ship's company|complement]] of 3 officers and 39 [[Naval rating|ratings]] and the vessel was armed with one [[Lewis gun|.303 machine gun]].<ref name="macbarrie">{{cite book |last1=Macpherson |first1=Ken |last2=Barrie |first2=Ron |name-list-style=amp |year=2002 |title=The Ships of Canada's Naval Forces 1910–2002 |edition=Third |publisher=Vanwell Publishing |location=St. Catharines, Ontario |isbn=1-55125-072-1 |pages=229}}</ref>

==Career==

===Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Ferry===
[[File:Hsl-Sankaty-neg.jpg|thumb|left|The steamer ''Sankaty'']]
''Sankaty''  built by the [[Fore River Shipyard|Fore River Works]] in [[Quincy, Massachusetts]]<ref name=autogenerated2>{{cite journal|title=Steamer Tested by Naval Architects |journal=The Technology Review |volume=XIII |number=1 |date=January 1911 |publisher=MIT Alumni Association |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gg0AAAAAMAAJ&q=steamer+%2BSankaty |page=173}}</ref> with the [[yard number]] 192.<ref name="miramar"/> The ship was [[Ceremonial ship launching|launched]] on 2 February 1911 and completed in April.<ref name="miramar"/><ref name=autogenerated3>''The Dukes County Intelligencer''. Vol. 24, No. 4. May 1983</ref> From her construction in 1911 until 1924, ''Sankaty'' operated as a [[ferry]] for the New Bedford, Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket Steamboat Company, serving the islands of [[Martha's Vineyard]] and [[Nantucket]]. While not the first propeller-driven steamer to serve these islands (which was ''Helen Augusta'' which substituted for {{ship||Monohansett|steamboat|2}} during the [[American Civil War]]) it marked the end of the [[paddlewheel]] steamer era for the Cape and Islands.<ref name=autogenerated1 /><ref name="miramar"/>

On February 20, 1917, she went ashore on [[Wilburs Point]] at [[Sconticut Neck]] near [[New Bedford, Massachusetts]]. The vessel was refloated, repaired and returned to service.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://research.mysticseaport.org/coll/coll001/#head86649728 |title=Records of the T.A. Scott Company, Inc. |publisher=Mystic Seaport Museum Collections & Research |access-date=20 April 2021}}</ref>

===1924 fire, Maine and New York Ferry Service===
On the night of June 30, 1924, ''Sankaty'' caught fire and burned down to her steel hull while tied up overnight in [[New Bedford]] harbor.<ref name=autogenerated3 /> She drifted across the [[Acushnet River]] in flames and crashed into the whaling ship {{ship||Charles W. Morgan|ship|2}}, setting her on fire as well.<ref>The [[American Neptune]], 1941. Peabody & Essex Museum, Peabody Museum of Salem [https://books.google.com/books?id=xzLSFspFuKAC&q=steamer+%2BSankaty]</ref><ref>{{cite book |publisher=Pacific Steam Navigation Company |title=Sea Breezes |volume=56 |number=443 |date=November 1982 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5qoPAAAAIAAJ&q=steamer+%2BSankaty}}</ref>

''Sankaty'' was raised, sold and rebuilt with an open deck for use as a car ferry in [[Rockland, Maine]].<ref name=autogenerated3 /> Owned by the New England Steamship Company, the vessel was sold to Snow Marine Company in 1925.<ref name="miramar"/> In 1931, the vessel was sold again, this time to the Stamford-Oyster Bay Ferries Corporation to serve as a ferry between [[Stamford, Connecticut]], and [[Oyster Bay, Long Island]].<ref name="miramar"/><ref>{{cite book |last=Snow |first=Edward Rowe |title=Mysteries and Adventures Along the Atlantic Coast |publisher=Dodd, Mead |year=1948 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IbPTkRE2bR4C&q=Rockland+%2BSankaty+%2Bferry}}</ref><ref>Morley, Christopher. ''Streamlines''. Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1936.</ref>

===Canadian service and fate===
[[File:HMCS Sankaty.jpg|thumb|right|Sailors with a mine aboard HMCS ''Sankaty'' off Halifax, Nova Scotia, March 1941]]
In 1940 ''Sankaty'' was purchased by [[Northumberland Ferries Limited|Northumberland Ferries]] of [[Prince Edward Island]], Canada, but before she began service she was requisitioned by the [[Royal Canadian Navy]] that year to serve in [[World War II]] as a [[minelayer]], HMCS ''Sankaty''. The ship was [[Ship commissioning|commissioned]] on 24 September 1940 at [[Halifax, Nova Scotia]] and was also used as a maintenance vessel. With the end of the war, the ship was [[paid off]] on 18 August 1945.<ref name="macbarrie"/> Never entirely suitable for job as a minelayer, the ship was replaced in Canadian service by {{HMCS|Whitethroat}}.<ref>* {{cite book |last=Tucker |first=Gilbert Norman |year=1952 |title=The Naval Service of Canada, Its Official History – Volume 2: Activities on Shore During the Second World War |publisher=King's Printer |location=Ottawa |oclc=4346983 |pages=109}}</ref>

After the war she was renamed ''Charles A. Dunning'', and served from 1946 until 1964 in the waters between Wood Islands, Prince Edward Island and Caribou, Nova Scotia. During this period her capacity was twenty-three cars and four trucks.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.islandregister.com/ship_data5.html |title=P.E.I.'s Coastal Vessels and Ferries |website=islandregister.com |date=June 16, 2016 |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref> She was sold for [[Ship breaking|scrap]] in 1964, but sank en route to [[Sydney, Nova Scotia]] on October 27, 1964.<ref name="miramar"/>

== The new ''Sankaty'' ==
[[File:MV Sankaty.jpg|thumb|right|The new MV ''Sankaty'' at the wharf in [[Woods Hole]]]]

In 1994, [[The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority]] began service of a new freight vessel ''Sankaty'', named after this steamer.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://web1.steamshipauthority.com/ssa/ferries.cfm |title=Vessels |website=The Steamship Authority |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829222133/https://www.steamshipauthority.com/about/vessels | archivedate=August 29, 2017 |accessdate=May 6, 2018}}</ref>

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[[Category:Maritime history of the United States]]
[[Category:Martha's Vineyard]]
[[Category:Ferries of Prince Edward Island]]
[[Category:Ferries of Nova Scotia]]
[[Category:Auxiliary ships of the Royal Canadian Navy]]
[[Category:Shipwrecks of the Nova Scotia coast]]
[[Category:1911 ships]]
[[Category:Maritime incidents in 1964]]
[[Category:Transportation in Dukes County, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Transportation in Nantucket, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Transport in Kings County, Prince Edward Island]]
[[Category:Ships built in Quincy, Massachusetts]]