Year of Build:

1867

Built at:

Kingston, ONT

Vessel Type:

Schooner

Hull Materials:

Wood

Number of Decks:

1

Builder Name:

George Thurston

Original Owner and Location:

William & Thomas Taylor, Kingston, ONT.

Number of Masts:

2

Length:

108'

Beam:

24.25'

Depth:

9'

Tonnage (old style):

201

Final Location:

Off Point Traverse, ONT.
Lake Ontario.

Date:

12 Nov 1904

How:

Storm.

Final Cargo:

Coal.

GPS:

Latitude: 45. 58. 10 Longitude: 76. 48. 28

Notes:

Bound Sodus, NY - Picton, ONT, foundered & sank in storm. 1982 Wreck surveyed.

1867, May 27 Launched.

1868 175 gross tons.

1874, Jun 12 Foundered 2 miles north of Port Colborne, struck timber float.

1878 Same owner; readmeasured 197.14 gross / 175.49 net tons; C83285.

1893, Oct 14 Ashore Lake Ontario in big storm of 1893.

1903, May 1 Owned Murrey Akerman, Picton, ONT.

1904, Nov 20 Wrecked, Lake Ontario.

From the Collection of:

C. Patrick Labadie

Sources:

Board of Lake Underwriters Marine Directory

Canadian Registers

Canadian Sessional Papers

Newspaper Clippings

Steamboat Era in the Muskokas by Richard Tatley