CITY OF SANDUSKY (1866, Steamer)

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Identification

Vessel name:: CITY OF SANDUSKY
Year of Build:: 1866
Official Number:: 5062

Construction and Ownership

Built at:: Sandusky, OH
Vessel Type:: Steamer; Note: 12 x 12" keelsons; 3 1/2" nonwarp pine deck plancks; 50 staterooms.
Hull Materials:: Wood
Number of Decks:: 2
Builder Name:: Geo. Fordham
Original Owner and Location:: River & Lake Shore Line, Sandusky, OH

Power

Propulsion:: Sidewheel
Engine Type:: Vertical Beam (Walking Beam)
# Cylinders:: 1
# Boilers:: 1
Propulsion Notes:: 40 x 84" (later altered to 108"); 25' wheels with 7' buckets, 14mph installed Jun 2, 1866; built in 1833 by Battell, Buffalo, NY for steamer MICHIGAN, later used in R. R. ELLIOTT.

Hull Dimensions

Length:: 177'
Beam:: 27'
Depth:: 10.8'
Tonnage (gross):: 364

Final Disposition

Final Location:: Port Stanley, ONT.
Lake Erie.
Date:: 24 Mar 1876
How:: Burned.

History

Chronology:

1866, May 5 Ran with PHILO PARSONS Detroit - Sandusky.

1867, Apr Placed in Toledo, Detroit & Saginaw Line.

1867, Sep 6 Collided with unidentified propeller (probably ROANOKE or NEBRASKA) near Colchester, ONT.; bow damaged, beached & sank in 9' water; raised by MAGNET.

1867, Fall Repaired at Clark's Drydock, Detroit.

1868 Placed in Detroit, Saginaw & Lake Huron Shore line.

1868, Sep 5 Owned Sol. Gardner, Detroit, MI.

1869, Feb 3 Fitted with upper cabin; ran with MARINE CITY between Detroit, Alpena & Mackinac.

1869, Nov 22 Ashore in Sarnia Bay.

1870, May 17 Ran Toledo - Sandusky with W. R. CLINTON.

1872, Oct 3 Attempted to rescue crew of barge TABLE ROCK in storm, failed - Au Sable, MI.

1872, Apr Ran Saginaw - Alpena with LAKE BREEZE for River & Lake Shore Line.

1872, Dec 8 Owned Capt. Isaac May, Keswick, ONT.

1874, Mar Ran Cleveland - Port Stanley.

1876, Mar 24 Burned, Port Stanley, ONT.

Notes

From the Collection of:: C. Patrick Labadie
Sources:: Donald V. Baut; Board of Lake Underwriters Marine Directory; Burton Collection; Canadian Sessional Papers; Edward J. Dowling Collection, University of Detroit - Mercy; F. E. Hamilton; William MacDonald Collection, Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Detroit; Newspaper Clippings