UNCLE TOM (1842, Schooner)

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
UNCLE TOM
Year of Build:
1842
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
St.Clair, MI
Vessel Type:
Schooner
Hull Materials:
Wood
Number of Decks:
1
Power
Number of Masts:
2
Hull Dimensions
Tonnage (old style):
110
Final Disposition
Final Location:
Long Point, Ontario, Lake Erie
Date:
Sep 1848
How:
Wrecked
History
Chronology:

1845 Owned Captain John Angus, Grand Island; taken across Sault

Portage to Lake Superior for use between Sault St.Marie, Copper

Harbor, LaPoint, Wisconsin & points between

1846 or 1847 Run down Soo Rapids back to Lower Lakes, not suited for

Lake Superior; for lumber trade as originally built

1847 Enrolled Buffalo, New York; possibly owned Burnwell Lumber

1848, September 17 Ashore Long Point, Ontario, Lake Erie; wrecked

1849 Declared lost

Notes
From the Collection of:
C. Patrick Labadie
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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