ACME (1856, Propeller)

Description

Identification

Construction and Ownership

Power

Hull Dimensions

Final Disposition

Final Location:: 9 miles off Dunkirk, NY, Lake Erie.
Date:: 4 Nov 1867
Final Depth:: 130'
How:: Foundered in gale.
Final Cargo:: Flour, beef, pork.
Notes:: Rolling in heavy seas, machinery disabled, causing vessel to fill and sink. Crew all saved, wreck found in 1980s.

History

Chronology:

1856, Jun 13 Enrolled at Buffalo.

1857, Jul 18 Aground at Pt. Pelee, Lake Erie, released Jul 15.

1857, Sep 12 Lost a man overboard, Grand Traverse Bay, MI, Lake Michigan.

1857, Nov Grounded off Pt. Colborne, Lake Erie, Lost anchors & smokestack.

1858, Apr Owner Lucius Pratt, Buffalo.

1859, Aug 10 Owner Pascal P. Pratt, Buffalo.

1859, Sep 19 Owners John B. Griffin et al, Buffalo, NY.

1859, Nov Struck bottom at Milwaukee pier, WI, Lake Michigan; rudder damaged.

1860, Jun 7 Owner Charles Ensign, Buffalo, NY.

1863, Jan 22 Rebuilding at Mason & Bidwell Shipyard, Buffalo, NY.

1863, Nov Sprung leak on Lake Michigan with cargo flour & wheat.

1864, Apr 8 Owners Western Transportation Co., Buffalo; Buffalo & Toledo Line and Buffalo and Chicago.

1865, Apr Operated by Western Transportation Co.

1865, May 3 Remeasured 192 x 34 x 10.9 feet, 921.10 gross tons.

1867, Jun Collided with steambarge GEORGE W. BISSELL off Clay Banks, Lake Erie. Both damaged.

1867, Nov 4 Sunk, Lake Erie.

Notes

From the Collection of:: C. Patrick Labadie
Sources:: Donald V. Baut; Board of Lake Underwriters Marine Directory; Burton Collection; Edward J. Dowling Collection, University of Detroit - Mercy; Enrollments, U.S. National Archives; C. Patrick Labadie; Lytle List; Jack Messmer; H. G. Runge Collection, Milwaukee Public Library; Steamboat Era in the Muskokas by Richard Tatley