SMITH & POST (1866, Schooner)

Description

Identification

Construction and Ownership

Power

Hull Dimensions

Final Disposition

Final Location:: Southeast Shoal.
Lake Erie.
Date:: 18 Aug 1901
How:: Fire.
Notes:: Caught fire while on station as temporary lightship; burned rapidly due to illumination oils aboard; burned to waterline, sunk; later dynamited to clear wreckage; no loss of life.

History

Chronology:

1866, Sep Launched Oakville, ONT.

1866, Dec 27 Registered Oakville.

1868, Aug 20 Sold American; owned Albert Smith & Joseph Post, Oswego, NY; enrolled Oswego.

1872. Nov Collision with schooner COLUMBIAN, Point Pelee, Lake Erie.

1879 Owned Daggett et al, Oswego.

1901 Owned H.C. Doville et al, chartered to Lake Carriers Association for use as lightship at Southeast Shoal, Lake Eire.

Notes