FILLMORE, MILLARD (1856, Schooner)

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
FILLMORE, MILLARD
Year of Build:
1856
Official Number:
16395
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
Buffalo, NY
Vessel Type:
Schooner
Hull Materials:
Wood
Number of Decks:
1
Builder Name:
Bidwell & Banta
Original Owner and Location:
D. Ferguson, Oswego, NY.
Power
Number of Masts:
3
Hull Dimensions
Length:
139'
Beam:
26'
Depth:
11'
Tonnage (old style):
385
Final Disposition
Final Location:
Approx. 4 miles north of Rogers City, MI.
Lake Huron.
Date:
27 Aug 1891
Final Depth:
30''
How:
Foundered.
Final Cargo:
Pig Iron.
Notes:
Bound Mackinaw City - Cleveland, OH., foundered & sank; cargo removed.
History
Chronology:

1856 Enrolled Buffalo, NY.

1856, Nov 4 Damaged wheat cargo, Lake Michigan.

1859, Nov Aground Beaver Island, Lake Michigan, cargo wheat.

1863 Owned Adkins & Co. Oswego, NY.

1863, Apr 20 Damaged in collision with schooner KELPIE off Sheboygan, WI, Lake Michigan.

1864 Rebuilt; 377 tons.

1865 Owned D. Ferguson, Oswego, NY; 291 tons.

1866 Owned A. English, Chicago, IL.

1868 Chicago owners; registered 291.70 gross / 277 net tons.

1870 Nov 22 Hard aground Grand Traverse Bay, Lake Michigan; released Nov 29.

1878 Major repairs.

1884, Oct 26 Aground Waugoshance, Lake Michigan with oats.

1887 Major repairs Oades Yard Detroit, MI.

1891 Owned Sullivan, Detroit, MI; sank.

Notes
From the Collection of:
C. Patrick Labadie
Sources:
Board of Lake Underwriters Marine Directory
C. Patrick Labadie
Newspaper Clippings
Steamboat Era in the Muskokas by Richard Tatley
Contact
Contact
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Email:specialcollections@alpenalibrary.org
Website:
https://www.alpenalibrary.org

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Alpena, Michigan 49707
USA
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