ARROW (1895, Passenger Steamer)

Also known as:

H-165

Year of Build:

1895

Official Number:

107155

Built at:

Wyandotte, MI

Vessel Type:

Passenger Steamer

Hull Materials:

Steel

Number of Decks:

3

Hull Number:

119

Builder Name:

Detroit Dry Dock Co.

Original Owner and Location:

Sandusky & Island Steamboat Co., Sandusky, OH

Propulsion:

Sidewheel

# Cylinders:

1

# Boilers:

1

Propulsion Notes:

40"x108" vertical beam, 600hp @ 30rpm, #53 engine built Fletcher, Harrison, NJ, 1868 for steamer JAY COOKER. 12'x16' firebox boiler built 1889. Clyde River type wheels, steel feathering.

Length:

165' 3"

Beam:

28'

Depth:

9' 5"

Tonnage (gross):

365

Tonnage (net):

182

Capacity:

900 passengers

Final Location:

Barrier Reef, Honduras.
Carribean Sea.

Date:

19 Aug 1948

How:

Ran aground.

Notes:

Wrecked Barrier Reef, 9 miles NNE Hunting Cay Lighthouse, Honduras.

1895-1922 Sailed Sandusky to Lake Erie Islands.

1911 New American Shipbuilding firebox boiler installed.

1922, Oct 14 Burned at her dock, Put-in-Bay, OH; replaced by CHIPPEWA, purchaesed from Arnold Co.

1922-1935 Rebuilt & sold, Northshore S.S. Co., Chicago; to run Chicago & Waukegan excursion trade. Ran 20 days & laid up, North Branch Chicago River; idle & vandalized; burned at dock Apr, 1932.

1934 Removed from documantation.

1935, Apr 8 Sold to C.W. & R. Armentrout; engine & boiler removed, Sturgeon Bay; towed to Monroe, MI.

1936, Aug 6 Redocumented as barge, 333 gross tons/333 net tons, Detroit.

1937, Jun 15 Redocumented, Philadelphia, PA, same owner.

1939, Jun 12 Sold to Benj & W.W. Colonna, Norfolk, VA; separated Intercoastal Waterway Norfolk & Savannah, GA.

1943, Oct 14 Sold to H.G. Williams et al, Jacksonville, FL; converted to general cargo vessel with two 200hp Waukesha diesel engines; transfered to Honduran flag and renamed H-162; operated between Jacksonville, Tampa, Cuba, & Puerto Rico.

1946, Sep 5 Sold to McCormick Shipping Corp. of Panama, entered Central America banana trade.

From the Collection of:

C. Patrick Labadie

Sources:

Edward J. Dowling Collection, University of Detroit - Mercy

Great Lakes Register

William MacDonald Collection, Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Detroit

Newspaper Clippings