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[edit] Namesake

It is likely that this ship was named after Thomas Wilson, born in Fifeshire, Scotland in 1839, the co-founder and operator of the Wilson Transit Line and successor company Wilson Marine Transit Company. Alexander McDougall (1845-1924), designer of this ship, was a co founder and helped raise capital to found the company.

See http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/hcgl/glms0027.html for some more corroborative evidence of this. I can't find a definitive cite but I 'd say circumstantial is strong (perhaps not quite strong enough to put in the article) ++Lar: t/c 22:51, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Actually this site says that she was named as I outlined above. Not sure how reliable that is. ++Lar: t/c 23:33, 17 August 2007 (UTC)