Year of Build:

1873

Official Number:

110063

Built at:

Buffalo, NY

Vessel Type:

Package Freighter

Note: tow stacks; double bottom ballast tanks; two watertight bulkheads; steel boilerhouse.

Hull Materials:

Iron

Number of Decks:

2

Builder Name:

Gibson and Craig

Master Carpenter:

David Bell

Original Owner and Location:

Holt and Ensign, Buffalo, NY

Number of Masts:

1

Propulsion:

Screw

Engine Type:

Steeple Compound

# Cylinders:

4

# Boilers:

2

# Propellers:

2

Propulsion Notes:

two 20 + 40 x 36", 600hp @ 72rpm engines, King Iron Works, Buffalo, NY 8 x 16' @ 75# steam firebox boilers, King Iron Works, Buffalo

Length:

231.7'

Beam:

35.7'

Depth:

13.3'

Tonnage (gross):

1,501.77

Tonnage (net):

1,334.57

Capacity:

100,000 bushels

Final Location:

12 miles E. Detour, MI light
Lake Huron

Date:

30 Apr 1909

How:

foundered

Final Cargo:

cement, dry goods, thousands rubber overshoes

Notes:

Hull fractured in terrific storm and sank

1872 Enrolled Buffalo; ran Buffalo, NY-Chicago, IL and Milwaukee, WI with CUBA, JAVA, SCOTIA, CORORADO, NEBRASKA and RANOKE, Union Steamboat Line.

1873, Sep Collision, steamer JOHN A. DIX near Limekilns, Detroit; cargo grain.

1876, Oct Disabled; towed, Port Colborne by prop GRANITE STATE.

1878 Ran on commercial Line.

1883, Aug Siezed in judgement; owned Mrs. Hamilton.

1884 Ran Buffalo-Duluth, MN.

1884, Oct Owned James Ash, P. P. Pratt, F. L. Danforth, G. B. Rich.

1886 Ran Buffalo-Green Bay, WI.

1890 Owned Lakawanna Transportation Co., Buffalo; ran Lake Erie-Milwaukee and Chicago.

1892, May 3 Sunk, collision with CELTIC, Lake Erie near Rondeau, ONT.

1893, Jun 9 Ashore Beaver Island, fog.

1893, Jul 11 Burned; damaged upper works.

1897 Locked in ice Green Bay; released by ALGOMAH.

1900, Sep 24 Owned Lake Transit Co., Duluth, MN.

1907 Owned Port Huron and Duluth Steam Ship Co., Duluth.

1909, Apr 30 Foundered Lake Huron; owned R. Duncan, Port Huron, MI.

From the Collection of:

C. Patrick Labadie