ARGYLE (1872, Propeller)

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
ARGYLE
Also known as:
GLENGARRY
Year of Build:
1872
Official Number:
90537
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
St. Catharine, ONT
Vessel Type:
Propeller
Hull Materials:
Wood
Number of Decks:
2
Builder Name:
Louis Shickluna
Original Owner and Location:
R.C. Graham & George Campbell, St. Catharine, ONT
Power
Number of Masts:
1
Engine Type:
Low Pressure
# Cylinders:
2
# Boilers:
1
# Propellers:
1
Propulsion Notes:
30 x 30"; 380 hp; 80 rpm engine, G.N. Oills, St. Catharines.
Hull Dimensions
Length:
135'
Beam:
23'
Depth:
12'
Tonnage (gross):
622
Tonnage (net):
397
Capacity:
18,000 bu
Final Disposition
Date:
Feb 1917
How:
Scrapped.
History
Chronology:

1872 Launched St. Catharine, ONT.

1872, Aug 16 Ashore Grenadier Island 20 miles below Kingston, ONT; 6' water in hold.

1873 Owned Graham & Campbell; ran in Merchant's Line, Chicago-Montreal thru 1880.

1875 460 gross tons.

1876 355 gross tons.

1877, Sep 3 Hole in port from striking pier coming into Pt. Burwell; lies in 8' water about 80 rods from harbor; raised Sep 8.

1877 135 x 23.2 x 11.5; 626 gross tons/397 net tons.

1882 J.C. Graham, St. Catharine, ONT; Montreal to Port Arthur.

1883-84 Wintered Soo; owned Rorie McLennan, Prince Arthur's Landing.

1884, May 4 Sunk north shore Lake Superior, Michipicoten Bay; laden with supplies for Canadian Pacific Railway.

1886 Rebuilt Kingston by John Gaskin; 170 x 26 x 11; 732 gross tons/438 net tons; renamed GLENGARRY.

1888 Received steeple engine by G.N. Oills 21 + 36 x 30"; 380 hp; 80 rpm; fire boiler 10 x 14 108#, 1888.

1890 Montreal Transportation Co; repaired 466 tons.

1890s Towed 4-mast barge MINNEDOSA.

1892, Jun Caught fire at Kingston, ONT; after cabin destroyed, one lost.

1898, Apr 29 Collision with CLINTON, Maumee Bay, Toledo.

1904 Montreal Transportation Co.

1909 Sunk & rebuilt.

1911 R. Richardson Forwarding Co.

1912 Sorel, QUE; reduced to barge.

1917 Broken up.

Notes
From the Collection of:
C. Patrick Labadie
Sources:
Donald V. Baut
Board of Lake Underwriters Marine Directory
Canadian Sessional Papers
Edward J. Dowling Collection, University of Detroit - Mercy
C. Patrick Labadie
William MacDonald Collection, Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Detroit
Newspaper Clippings
John E. Poole notes, Bowling Green State University
H. G. Runge Collection, Milwaukee Public Library
Contact
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Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library
Email:specialcollections@alpenalibrary.org
Website:
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Alpena, Michigan 49707
USA
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