CHIPPEWA (1890, Schooner-barge)

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
CHIPPEWA
Also known as:
RICKARTON
Year of Build:
1890
Official Number:
126623
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
Marine City, MI
Vessel Type:
Schooner-barge
Hull Materials:
Wood
Number of Decks:
1
Builder Name:
M.P. Lester
Original Owner and Location:
M.P. Lester, Marine City, MI.
Power
Number of Masts:
3
Hull Dimensions
Length:
220'
Beam:
36.2'
Depth:
22.1'
Tonnage (gross):
1290
Tonnage (net):
1239
Final Disposition
Final Location:
3 miles N of Port Dalhousie, ONT.
Lake Ontario.
Date:
Nov 1928
Final Depth:
90''
How:
Foundered.
Final Cargo:
None.
History
Chronology:

1890, May 9 Enrolled Port Huron; owned M.P. Lester.

1891 Rebuilt at Marine City.

1892 Towed by steamer CHEROKEE in Lake Superior trade.

1898 Owned Curtis & Brainard, Toledo, OH.

1906, Aug 1 Released from grounding in St. Clair River, towed to Detroit for repairs.

1906, Oct 20 Ran into stern of CHEROLEE, which had run aground in St. Clair River, cut cabin through to waters edge.

1912, Aug 3 Sold Canadian to Lake Ontario & Quebec Nav. Co. Ltd.; renamed RICKARTON, registered Picton.; C111967.

1916 Owned Canada Steamship Line.

1921 - 25 Laid up at Kingston Inner Harbor.

1928 Nov Foundered on Lake Ontario.

1930, Feb 11 Registry Closed.

Notes
From the Collection of:
C. Patrick Labadie
Sources:
Donald V. Baut
Edward J. Dowling Collection, University of Detroit - Mercy
Enrollments, U.S. National Archives
William MacDonald Collection, Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Detroit
Newspaper Clippings
Lorne Joyce
Steamboat Era in the Muskokas by Richard Tatley
Loudon G. Wilson
Contact
Contact
Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library
Email:specialcollections@alpenalibrary.org
Website:
Agency street/mail address:
211 N. First Ave.
Alpena, Michigan 49707
USA
(989)356-6188
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