GENERAL PORTER (1834, Steamer)

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
GENERAL PORTER
Also known as:
SIR CHARLES ADAM;H.M.S. TORONTO
Year of Build:
1834
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
Black Rock, NY
Vessel Type:
Steamer
Hull Materials:
Wood
Number of Decks:
1
Builder Name:
James Corrick
Original Owner and Location:
John B. Macy et al, Buffalo, NY
Power
Number of Masts:
2
Propulsion:
Sidewheel
Engine Type:
Crosshead
# Cylinders:
1
Propulsion Notes:
Low pressure engine, Gibson, Grayson & Co. 20' sidewheels.
Hull Dimensions
Length:
147' 1"
Beam:
27' 10"
Depth:
9' 3"
Tonnage (old style):
342 72/95
Final Disposition
Date:
1858
How:
Reported wrecked on Lake Michigan as sailing vessel.
History
Chronology:

1834, Jun 7 Enrolled Buffalo, NY; ran Buffalo to Detroit, occasionally Lake Erie & Niagara River.

1835, Mar 22 Sunk at layup dock, Buffalo; ice cracked discharge pipe & flooded boat.

1836, Sep 20 Holed & sunk, Dunkirk, NY; raised & repaired.

1838 Owned Canadian Government for Canada's Patriot War; renamed SIR CHARLES ADAM.

1838, Sep Owned British Admiralty; renamed H.M.S. TORONTO; armed & patrolled from Niagara to Detroit & St. Clair River.

1842 Stripped of boilers & machinery, made a storeship.

1843, Oct 7 Reenrolled Buffalo; renamed GENERAL PORTER; owned Captain Charles Gager; screw engine.

1843, Oct 8 Dismasted near Point Abino, Lake Erie; rigging fowled propeller; towed to Buffalo by steamer CONSTITUTION.

1844 Flour & grain trade, Chicago, IL & Buffalo.

1847, Sep 25 Enrolled Sandusky, OH.

1850-51 Wintered at Buffalo.

1852, Jan Engines for sale, Buffalo.

1858 Reported wrecked on Lake Michigan as sailing vessel.

Notes
From the Collection of:
C. Patrick Labadie
Sources:
C. E. Feltner Enrollments Database
Donald V. Baut
Edward J. Dowling Collection, University of Detroit - Mercy
Enrollments, U.S. National Archives
Erik Heyl, Early American Steamers
F. E. Hamilton
H. G. Runge Collection, Milwaukee Public Library
John E. Poole notes, Bowling Green State University
Lytle List
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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