LAKE SERPENT (1821, Schooner)

Year of Build:

1821

Built at:

Cleveland, OH

Vessel Type:

Schooner

Hull Materials:

Wood

Number of Decks:

1

Builder Name:

D.Tyler

Original Owner and Location:

John Burtis, Cleveland, OH.

Number of Masts:

2

Length:

47'

Beam:

15'

Depth:

4'

Tonnage (old style):

25 53/95

Final Location:

Lake Erie Islands.
Lake Erie.

How:

Wrecked.

Final Cargo:

Stone.

Notes:

Bound Put-in-Bay, OH for Cleveland, she was lost in a storm; all 4 hands lost.

1821, Apr Launched.

1822 - 28 Eight enrollments, Cleveland, OH.

1824, Nov 23 Owned John Burtis & Joseph Webb, Cleveland.

1826, May Grounded Point Pelee, ONT, Lake Erie.

1827, Apr 3 Owned G.Y. Lutz, Cleveland District.

1828, Mar 29 Owned James Short, Cleveland District.

1828, Nov 20 Owned Reynolds Gillet, Detroit, MI, with Thomas M. Kelly & James Short, Cleveland.

1836, Oct 6 Wrecked Lake Erie; owned Wright brothers, Rockport, OH.

From the Collection of:

C. Patrick Labadie