Year of Build:

1860

Built at:

Windsor, ONT

Vessel Type:

Ferry

Hull Materials:

Wood

Builder Name:

Henry & Shadrack Jenkings

Original Owner and Location:

Henry & Shadrack Jenkings, Walkerville, ONT.

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.

Length:

81'

Beam:

19'

Depth:

8'

Tonnage (gross):

94

Tonnage (net):

52

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.

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.

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