Year of Build:

1875

Official Number:

19437

Built at:

Black River, OH

Vessel Type:

Schooner

Hull Materials:

Wood

Number of Decks:

1

Builder Name:

Lyon, Wallace & Garon

Original Owner and Location:

Captain Henry Kelly, Milan, Ohio

Number of Masts:

3

Length:

182.1'

Beam:

35.1'

Depth:

13'

Tonnage (gross):

720

Tonnage (net):

684

Final Location:

20 miles off Sheboygan, Wisconsin, WSW of Little Sable Point, Michigan, Lake Michigan

Date:

26 Sep 1930

How:

Foundered in storm

Final Cargo:

Pulpwood

1875 Built for use in ore & grain trade

1887 Repaired, ceilings & keelson

1888 Owned George C. Hollister, Tonawanda, New York; repaired steam

well pump

1889 Owned H.Kelly, Sandusky, Ohio

1893 Owned Captain G. Corning, Saginaw, Michigan

1901 Owned George Ryan, Saginaw; listed as barge

1906 Owned J.W. Robinson, North Tonawanda, New York

1917 Owned J.E. Sheehan, port of hail Buffalo, New York

1920 Owned Theodore Dunn Transportation Company, Detroit; home port

Escanaba, Michigan

1922 Owned Winard Schlosse, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1923 Re-rigged for sail using remains of masts cut down at conversion

to barge

1930, September 26 Foundered & sank 20 miles off Sheboygan, Wisconsin,

Lake Michigan, carrying pulpwood from Manitoulin

Island to Muskegon Paper Company;

crew rescued by freighter WILLIAM NELSON

From the Collection of:

C. Patrick Labadie