PIERCE, FRANK (1853, Schooner)

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
PIERCE, FRANK
Also known as:
GENERAL SIEGEL
Year of Build:
1853
Official Number:
10220
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
Youngstown
Vessel Type:
Schooner
Hull Materials:
Wood
Number of Decks:
1
Builder Name:
N. Collins or Nicholson
Hull Dimensions
Tonnage (old style):
160 93/95
Final Disposition
Final Location:
Big Sable Point
Lake Michigan
Date:
24 Nov 1882
How:
wrecked
Notes:
bound Manistee-Chicago, went ashore in gale and wrecked near schooner ECLIPSE
History
Chronology:

1860 Owned Doyle and Co., Youngston, NY.

1853 Enrolled Lewiston, MI.

1854, Dec Ashore mouth Genessee River near Duck Pond.

1862 Rebuilt, lengthened; renamed GENERAL SIEGEL, owned G. Snow and Co., Oswego, NY.

1866 145 gross tons.

1866, Jun 30 Foundered 12 miles below Clay Banks, Lake Erie.

1868 144.82 gross tons; Cleveland District.

1871 Owned Bush and Birch, Racine, WI.

1876 Owned Bruce and Bliss, Racine, WI.

1882, Nov 25 Ashore Big Sable Point, between Manistee and Pentwater, MI.

Notes
From the Collection of:
C. Patrick Labadie
Contact
Contact
Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library
Email:specialcollections@alpenalibrary.org
Website:
Agency street/mail address:
211 N. First Ave.
Alpena, Michigan 49707
USA
(989)356-6188
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