Year of Build:

1867

Official Number:

403

Built at:

Gibraltar, MI

Vessel Type:

Schooner

Hull Materials:

Wood

Number of Decks:

1

Builder Name:

Roderick Calkins

Original Owner and Location:

C. & D. Whitney, Detroit

Number of Masts:

3

Length:

138'

Beam:

26' 7"

Depth:

11'

Tonnage (gross):

301

Tonnage (net):

286

Final Location:

Breakwater, Buffalo, NY, Lake Erie.

Date:

6 Oct 1906

How:

Wrecked in gale, broke up.

Final Cargo:

Lumber

Notes:

On the rocks at Donnelly's Pier.

1867 Enrolled Detroit, MI, cost $30,000.

1868, Nov 19 Lumber laden, waterlogged in gale near Welland Canal, Lake Erie; towed to Detroit & drydocked for repairs.

1870, Oct 18 Ashore Long Point, ONT, Lake Erie; got off.

1871, Sep 21 At Detroit for repairs after grounded.

1876, Oct Aground Menominee, WI, Lake Michigan; got off.

1882 Owned Kenosha, WI.

1890, Feb Large repairs at Chicago, IL.

1899 Owned William H. Shaw, Chicago, IL.

1905, Apr 18 Owned F. E. Baldwin & E. H. Edwards, Petosky, MI.

1906 Stranded and broke up on breakwater Buffalo, NY.

From the Collection of:

C. Patrick Labadie

Sources:

C. E. Feltner Enrollments Database

Newspaper Clippings

Peter J. VanderLinden