ANTELOPE (1861, Propeller)

Description

Identification

Construction and Ownership

Built at:: Newport (Marine City), MI
Vessel Type:: Propeller; Note: Passenger & freight may have been laid down as sidewheeler, completed as propeller plain head & round stern.
Hull Materials:: Wood
Number of Decks:: 2
Builder Name:: Joseph L. Wolverton
Original Owner and Location:: Eber W. Owens, St. Clair, MI

Power

Number of Masts:: 1
Propulsion:: Screw
Engine Type:: Low Pressure
# Cylinders:: 1
# Propellers:: 2
Propulsion Notes:: 56" cylinder by 40" stroke engine from C. Kellogg Works, Detroit. Nine pumps. 2 - 9.5' diameter Philadelphia wheels.

Hull Dimensions

Final Disposition

Final Location:: Few miles off Michigan Island.
Lake Superior.
Discovered September 2016.
Date:: 7 Oct 1897
How:: Foundered in heavy seas.
Final Cargo:: Coal.
Notes:: In tow of HIRAM W. SIBLEY, sprang leak in heavy sea & foundered; crew removed by SIBLEY, no lives lost.

History

Chronology:

1861 Enrolled Detroit, used in Buffalo to Chicago run.

1861, Aug 22 Maiden voyage Detroit to Chicago & back to Buffalo with 19,400 bushels wheat & 450 barrels flour.

1862, Aug 22 Enrolled Chicago, temporary document.

1863 Enrolled Chicago, IL.

1864 Readmeasured 201.6' x 31.7' x 12' 797 gross tons.

1866, Apr 13 Enrolled Chicago, owned E.W. Owens; 1' added to depth.

1866, Aug 21 Owned Albert G. Shonn, Racine, WI.

1867, Nov 8 Burned Buffalo, NY with cargo of flour & grain.

1868, Aug 29 Hull purchased by Ballentine & Crawford; rebuilt Clark's Dry Dock, Detroit MI, 915.19 tons. Returned to service May 10 1869.

1871 Owned Ballentine & Co., Detroit.

1875, May 7 Owned A.B. Moore, Bay City; James Ballentine, Chicago; Henry Ballentine, Saginaw; Edward F. Lawrence, Chicago.

1875 Owned Alexander B. Moore, West Bay City, MI; rebuilt as steam barge 201.6' x 317' x 12', 750.05 tons.

1878, Apr 20 Owned William T. Baker, Walter F. Cobb, Gordon G. Moore, Chicago, IL.

1879 Owned T. Baker, Chicago. Rebuilt 1876 & 1878 Chicago, IL.

1880, Mar 2 Owned Charles B. Curtis & John Lindsay, South Bay City, MI.

1880, May 1 Enrolled Port Huron.

1881 Went aground Colchester Reef, Lake Erie with cargo of coal; hung up on wrecked tug MAYFLOWER.

1881, May 12 Owned Port Huron; rebuilt, tonnage reduced 201.6' x 31.7' x 9', 750.05 gross tons.

1881, Nov Caught in storm, towing MANITOWOC, laden with coal. Both arches broken, smoke stack carried away, galley thrown into heap.

1882 Rebuilt as schooner barge; McGraw & Co., Bay City, MI; 186.8' x 32' x 12', 523.48 gross tons, 496.62 net tons.

1882, Apr 13 Owned C.B. Curtis, Bay City, MI.

1885, Aug Burned Saginaw.

1893, Apr Owned L.S. Boutell, Fred E. Boutell, & William H. Boutell, Bay City; schooner with three masts.

1893, Aug Laden with coal, crashed into Culver's dock, Duluth.

1896 Owned Fred E. & William H. Boutell, Bay City.

1897, Oct 7 Foundered.

Notes

From the Collection of:: C. Patrick Labadie
Sources:: Beesons Marine Directory; Board of Lake Underwriters Marine Directory; Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society; C. E. Feltner Enrollments Database; Edward J. Dowling Collection, University of Detroit - Mercy; Enrollments, U.S. National Archives; F. E. Hamilton; H. G. Runge Collection, Milwaukee Public Library; John E. Poole notes, Bowling Green State University; Loudon G. Wilson; Newspaper Clippings; Peter J. VanderLinden; Steamboat Era in the Muskokas by Richard Tatley