SAGE, RUSSELL (1881, Package Freighter)

Also known as:

ATLASCO

Year of Build:

1881

Official Number:

110472

Built at:

Buffalo, NY

Vessel Type:

Package Freighter

Note: Plain head, round stern Sister: JOHN C. GAULT

Hull Materials:

Wood

Number of Decks:

3

Hull Number:

17 or 22

Builder Name:

Union Dry Dock Company

Master Carpenter:

M.M. Drake

Original Owner and Location:

Wabash Line, Toledo, Ohio

Number of Masts:

1

Propulsion:

Screw

Engine Type:

Steeple Compound

# Cylinders:

2

# Boilers:

2

# Propellers:

1

Propulsion Notes:

24 x 54 x 36", 650hp, 80rpm engine by King Iron Works, Buffalo, New York, 1881 7 x 14' firebox boiler, 102 pounds steam, by M.Riter & Company, Buffalo, 1881

Length:

218'

Beam:

32.8'

Depth:

13.4'

Tonnage (gross):

1224.25

Final Location:

Off South Bay Point, Ontario, Lake Ontario

Date:

7 Aug 1921

How:

Foundered

Final Cargo:

Wire

Notes:

Foundered in storm, crew escaped

1881, May 23 First Launched

1881, June 10 First enrolled Buffalo, New York

1881, June 14 Owned Wabash Pacific & Saint Louis Railway Company,

1104.75 tons

1883, August 5 Chartered Commercial Line

1890, January 20 Owned Lake Erie Transportation Company, Monroe,

Michigan

1906, April 13 Owned M.W. Humphry, Detroit, Michigan & Frank S. Upton,

Charlotte, New York

1906, November 27 Rebuilt as coarse freighter, 218 x 32 x 13.4', 597

gross tons, 456 net tons

1907, August 12 Owned George C. Bayless, Binghamton, New York (?)

1912, November 1 Burned, sunk & abandoned, Oswego, New York

1914, March 17 Documents surrendered, Ogdensburg, New York

1917 Wreck rebuilt as barge at Sorel, Quebec or Port Dalhousie,

Ontario; owned Sincennes-McNaughton Company, Montreal, Quebec

1917, April Renamed ATLASCO

1918 Owned Atlas Transportation Company

1921, August 7 Foundered in storm off South Bay Point, Ontario, Lake

Ontario

From the Collection of:

C. Patrick Labadie