SYLPH (1845, Schooner)

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
SYLPH
Year of Build:
1845
Official Number:
23919
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
Ashtabula, OH
Vessel Type:
Schooner
Hull Materials:
Wood
Number of Decks:
1
Builder Name:
J.W. Lent
Built on Bottom of:
SIGNAL
Power
Number of Masts:
2
Hull Dimensions
Tonnage (old style):
135 05/95
Final Disposition
Final Location:
Sodus, NY.
Date:
1871
How:
Rebuilt as WANETEE.
History
Chronology:

1845 Enrolled French Creek.

1845, Nov Holed amidships in collision with MILAN In Buffalo Harbor.

1851 181 gross tons; enrolled Oswego, NY.

1853, Oct 4 Dismantled Lake Ontario; repaired Oswego, NY.

1854, Apr Ashore Long Point, Lake Erie.

1855, Apr Ashore Oswego in ballast, bound Oswego for Port Credit, ONT; owned H. Clark, Fulton, NY.

1857 146 tons; repaired.

1858, Apr Collision with schooner GREY EAGLE off Erie, PA.

1860 Owned Isaac green, Oswego.

1860, Aug 16 Bound Oswego to Detroit with 500 barrels water lime; went ashore Point au Pelee; released by OSWEGO; repaired Campbells & Owen.

1861 Repaired.

1863 Repaired; owned James Jenkins, Oswego.

1865 Owned M. Cheskey & Co.; 90 tons, 114 gross tons.

1866 Owned Levor, Pollister & Co., Pultneyville.

1868 113.73 gross tons.

1871 Owned Sodus, NY; rebuilt as WANETEE.

Notes
From the Collection of:
C. Patrick Labadie
Contact
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Email:specialcollections@alpenalibrary.org
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Alpena, Michigan 49707
USA
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