BAY STATE (1852, Propeller)

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
BAY STATE
Also known as:
ONTARIO
Year of Build:
1852
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
Buffalo, NY
Vessel Type:
Propeller
Hull Materials:
Wood
Number of Decks:
2
Builder Name:
Bidwell & Banta
Original Owner and Location:
Central Vermont Railway, Cleveland, OH
Power
Number of Masts:
1
Propulsion:
Screw
Engine Type:
High Pressure (including HPNC)
# Cylinders:
1
# Boilers:
1
# Propellers:
1
Hull Dimensions
Length:
137' 0.3"
Beam:
25' 0.7"
Depth:
11' 0.4"
Tonnage (old style):
372 4/95
Final Disposition
Final Location:
Near Oswego, NY.
Lake Ontario.
Date:
2 Nov 1862
How:
Foundered in gale.
Final Cargo:
General merchandise.
Notes:
Bound Oswego-Chicago, loss of 22 lives.
History
Chronology:

1852, Sep 21 Maiden voyage Buffalo-Detroit.

1852, Oct 7 Enrolled Oswego, NY; owned D.C. Bancroft.

1854, Jul 1 Enrolled Cape Vincent, NY; owned Watertown & Rome Railroad Co; C.C. Bancroft, agent.

1855, Oct 13 Owned Northern Transportation Co., Ogdensburg, NY.

1856, May 14 Struck Chicago piers; sunk with cargo, 100 tons hardware & package cargo recovered in July.

1857, Jul Ashore Waukegan, IL.

1857, Oct Broke shaft cylinder & other engine parts on Lake Erie.

1861, Apr 17 Major repairs; 372 tons; owned Chamberlain & Crawford, Cleveland, Ohio.

1862, Nov 2 Foundered Lake Ontario.

Notes
From the Collection of:
C. Patrick Labadie
Sources:
Donald V. Baut
Board of Lake Underwriters Marine Directory
Burton Collection
John E. Poole notes, Bowling Green State University
H. G. Runge Collection, Milwaukee Public Library
Steamboat Era in the Muskokas by Richard Tatley
Canadian Registers
Enrollments, U.S. National Archives
C. E. Feltner Enrollments Database
Erik Heyl, Early American Steamers
Lytle List
Newspaper Clippings
Contact
Contact
Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library
Email:specialcollections@alpenalibrary.org
Website:
https://www.alpenalibrary.org

Agency street/mail address:
211 N. First Ave.
Alpena, Michigan 49707
USA
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