DETROIT (1786, Schooner)

Year of Build:

1786

Official Number:

BRITISH

Built at:

Detroit, MI

Vessel Type:

Schooner

Hull Materials:

Wood

Original Owner:

Northwest Fur Co.

Number of Masts:

2

Tonnage (old style):

65

Final Location:

Three miles off Erie, PA.
Lake Erie.

Date:

1797

How:

Foundered, storm.

Final Cargo:

Military supplies.

Notes:

1834, Feb 1 A 1796 purchase, condemned & laid up at Rouge River.

First American flagged vessel on Lake Erie.

1796 Owned United States, sloop of war.

From the Collection of:

C. Patrick Labadie

Sources:

Newspaper Clippings

Steamboat Era in the Muskokas by Richard Tatley