Also known as:

ADIRAMLED

Year of Build:

1866

Official Number:

4379

Built at:

Cleveland, OH

Vessel Type:

Propeller

Note: Passenger & freight.

Hull Materials:

Wood

Number of Decks:

2

Builder Name:

Quayle & Martin

Original Owner and Location:

Fremont Transportation Co., Fremont, OH

Number of Masts:

1

Propulsion:

Screw

Engine Type:

High Pressure (including HPNC)

# Cylinders:

1

# Boilers:

1

# Propellers:

1

Propulsion Notes:

30 x 30" 300hp @ 95rpm engine by Cuyahoga Iron Works. 8'6" x 20' 58# firebox boiler by Cuyahoga Iron Works.

Length:

165'

Beam:

27.6'

Depth:

11.6'

Tonnage (gross):

600

Final Location:

Dutch John Bay, Stony Island.
Lake Ontario.

Date:

16 Jun 1912

How:

Foundered.

Final Cargo:

Coal.

Notes:

Seams opened under weight of heavy cargo, probably overloaded.

1866, May 8 Enrolled at Cleveland, Owned Fremont Transportation Co., Fremont, OH; Buffalo - Fremont.

1867, Apr 19 Owned John Pridgeon, Detroit; Sarnia - Chicago; Grand Trunk Line.

1870, May Lengthened to 190.9 x 27 x 10.7"; 705 gross / 577 net tons, 34 cabins.

1870, Jul Severely damaged tug HARRISON in collision at Buffalo.

1872, Dec 13 Owned Engelmann Transportation Co., Milwaukee.

1873, Aug 30 Owned Eber Ward, Detroit; Detroit - Lake Michigan - Lake Superior for Wards Central & Pacific Lake Steamboat Co.

1878, Mar 23 Owned Pridgeon & Spencers Lake Superior Lines, Chicago.

1879 Repaired.

1887, Aug 3 Grounded Portage Canal in fog; released self by jettisoning 15,000 bricks & 200 barrels salt.

1887 Large repairs, deck & timbers forward.

1889 Large repairs: refastened, recaulked, steam pump well & smoke stack cased.

1890 Owned Ellicot Evans, et al, Buffalo.

1890, Jun Damaged engine on Lake Superior, blew out cylinder, broke piston rod; towed to Hancock for repairs.

1894, Dec Large repairs at Manitowoc, WI.

1899, Oct 2 Owned Barry Bros. Transportation Co., Chicago.

1904, Sep 16 Owned same; enrolled Milwaukee.

1906, Mar 30 Owned W.H. Horn Cedar & Lumber, Co., Sandusky, OH; rebuilt as steambarge 191.5 x 27.4 x 10.6', 565 gross / 375 net tons.

1907, Jul 3 Renamed ADIRAMLED.

1911, Oct 17 Owned Harris W. Baker, et al, Detroit.

1912, Mar 9 Sold to Candadian Party, C130992; 198 x 27.4 x 10.6', 630 gross / 364 net tons.

1913, Jun 27 Register closed, "burned".

From the Collection of:

C. Patrick Labadie

Sources:

Army Corps of Engineers

Beesons Marine Directory

Board of Lake Underwriters Marine Directory

Edward J. Dowling Collection, University of Detroit - Mercy

Enrollments, U.S. National Archives

C. E. Feltner Enrollments Database

Newspaper Clippings

John E. Poole notes, Bowling Green State University

H. G. Runge Collection, Milwaukee Public Library

Lorne Joyce

Steamboat Era in the Muskokas by Richard Tatley

Peter J. VanderLinden

John O. Greenwood

Erik Heyl, Early American Steamers

C. Patrick Labadie

Lytle List

William MacDonald Collection, Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Detroit

Ed Middleton