SOUTHAMPTON (1860, Barkentine)

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
SOUTHAMPTON
Year of Build:
1860
Official Number:
80878
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
Garden Island, ONT
Vessel Type:
Barkentine
Hull Materials:
Wood
Number of Decks:
1
Builder Name:
Calven & Breck Shipyard
Master Carpenter:
Henry Roney
Original Owner and Location:
Calven & Breck, Garden Island, ONT
Power
Number of Masts:
3
Hull Dimensions
Length:
134.5'
Beam:
23.7'
Depth:
11.8'
Tonnage (old style):
406
Final Disposition
Final Location:
Sarnia Bay, North of Sarnia, ONT
Lake Huron
Date:
Aug 1901
How:
driven aground and wrecked
Notes:
Swase gives loss as Oct 28, 1904; Port Huron paper Aug 30, 1901 notes that wrecks of PANDORA and SHOUTHAMPTON will be taken from Sarnia Bay to Kettle Point for part of breakwater
History
Chronology:

1861 Used in lumber trade between upper and lower lakes; flanks "hewed down", built too wide for Welland Canal.

1863 Owned E. Brown, Hamilton, ONT.

1869 Lost anchor & chain, Lake Erie.

1871 New deck.

1875 Owned Donald Cameron Thompson, QUE.

1878 Owned Thompson & Co., Hamilton, ONT.

1879 Purchased by American Jesse Farwell; too complex to change registry; hauling timber.

1881 Owner Samuel Fraser, Kingston, ONT; listed, barge.

1889 Repairs including new side.

1890 Hauling timber from Algoma; damaged while loading; repaired.

1897 Owner J. Gary, Kingston.

1901 Owned Samuel Fraser, Kingston; schooner.

Prior to 1901, Aug 30 Driven ashore, Sarnia Bay, Lake Huuron; wrecked

Notes
From the Collection of:
C. Patrick Labadie
Contact
Contact
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