RUBY (1854, Schooner)

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
RUBY
Year of Build:
1854
Official Number:
21303
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
Olcott, NY
Vessel Type:
Schooner
Hull Materials:
Wood
Number of Decks:
1
Builder Name:
Little
Original Owner:
J.D. Cooper
Power
Number of Masts:
2
Hull Dimensions
Length:
84'
Beam:
9.6'
Depth:
7.2'
Tonnage (old style):
121
Final Disposition
Final Location:
Near Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Lake Michigan
Date:
26 Sep 1868
How:
Grounded in storm
Final Cargo:
Lumber
Notes:
Lumber partially salvaged
History
Chronology:

1856, November 4 Disabled, Genesee River, Lake Ontario

1856, November 29 Ashore Burlington Bay, Lake Ontario

1858, May Struck sunken wreck leaving Sodus Harbor, New York, Lake

Ontario

1861, August 10 Collided with schooner ADRIATIC, Detroit River

(this vessel?)

1863, March Owned John Enright & Company, Toledo, Ohio

1863, October 4 Driven into piers with wheat, Buffalo Harbor, New

York, Lake Erie

1864 Owned D.W. Gilbert, Toledo

1865 Readmeasured 91 gross tons

1866 Owned P. Smith, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1867 Tonnage change 118.77 gross tons

1868, September 26 Wrecked

Notes
From the Collection of:
C. Patrick Labadie
Contact
Contact
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Email:specialcollections@alpenalibrary.org
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Alpena, Michigan 49707
USA
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