ESSEX (1860, Ferry)

Description

Identification

Construction and Ownership

Power

Propulsion:: Sidewheel
Engine Type:: High Pressure (including HPNC)
# Cylinders:: 1
# Boilers:: 1
Propulsion Notes:: 19" x 54" engine, by Hyslop & Cleghorn, Chatham, ONT. 94 Flue Locomotive boiler by Henry McPhilmey, Chatham, ONT.

Hull Dimensions

Final Disposition

Final Location:: Below railroad dock, Sarnia, ONT. Saint Clair River
Date:: 1886
How:: Abandoned.
Notes:: 1887, Nov 28 Burned, Wolverine Drydock. 1888, Oct 15 At Sarnia near Alpha Oil works; machinery removed.

History

Chronology:

1860, Sep 14 Ran Windsor, ONT - Detroit, MI, competing with GEM, ARGO & UNDINE; cabins added this year.

1874 Rebuilt; lengthened 10', 90 x 25 x 8.5', 142 gross tons; ran Port Huron, MI - Sarnia, ONT.

1877 Burned & sank below Port Huron; raised & rebuilt as a propeller, 142 gross / 89 net tons.

1884 Burned Port Huron, upper works destroyed & machinery damaged; repaired.

1885 Owned J.S. Loughead, Sarnia, ONT; renamed FRED CURTIS is error.

1886 Abandoned, Sarnia, ONT.

Notes

From the Collection of:: C. Patrick Labadie
Sources:: Beesons Marine Directory; Board of Lake Underwriters Marine Directory; Canadian List of Shipping (M&FLV); Canadian Sessional Papers; Dossin Great Lakes Museum; Edward J. Dowling Collection, University of Detroit - Mercy; John E. Poole notes, Bowling Green State University; H. G. Runge Collection, Milwaukee Public Library; Steamboat Era in the Muskokas by Richard Tatley; Inland Lloyds’ Marine Directory; Inland Seas, Great Lakes Historical Society; C. Patrick Labadie; William MacDonald Collection, Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Detroit; Newspaper Clippings; Marine Directory, R. L. Polk Co., Detroit

Contact

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Email:specialcollections@alpenalibrary.org
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