ELFIN-MERE (1887, Bulk Freighter)

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
ELFIN-MERE
Also known as:
CHARLES B. PACKARD
Year of Build:
1887
Official Number:
135940
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
West Bay City, MI
Vessel Type:
Bulk Freighter
Note: One stack.
Hull Materials:
Wood
Number of Decks:
2
Hull Number:
35
Builder Name:
Frank W. Wheeler
Master Carpenter:
Frank W. Wheeler
Original Owner:
Joseph Gordon & F.W. Wheeler
Power
Engine Type:
Steeple Compound
# Cylinders:
2
# Boilers:
1
Propulsion Notes:
24", 46" x 36" engine by Frontier Iron Works, Detroit, MI, 550hp, 84rpm. 12' x 12.5' scotch boiler by Central Boiler Works, Detroit.
Hull Dimensions
Length:
190.5'
Beam:
34'
Depth:
21'
Tonnage (gross):
1054
Tonnage (net):
796
Final Disposition
Date:
1913
How:
Abandoned.
Notes:
1913, Jun 16 Documents surrendered "vessel abandoned (unfit for use)".
History
Chronology:

1887, Aug Launched.

1887, Aug 30 Enrolled Port Huron, MI; owned Sarah H. Gordon et al, Bay City, MI.

1888 Towed barge WADENA in Two Harbors ore trade.

1890, Apr 4 Owned Chesley Wheeler et al, West Bay City, MI.

1891 Towed OLIVE JEANETTE.

1894, Sep 5 Run into by ferry BRUNO at Duluth, MN Fifth Avenue dock.

1895, Nov Aground at Russell's Island, St. Clair River, MI.

1898 Towed HATTIE WELLS & WILLIAMS.

1901, Nov 16 Burned to water's edge, Green Bay, WI.

1902, Jan 9 Enrolled Milwaukee, WI; owned Thomas H. Smith, Sturgeon Bay, WI.

1902 Rebuilt as steam barge; 1 deck, 2 masts, 180.5' x 35.7' x 13.3'; 676 gross/ 504 net tons; renamed CHARLES B. PACKARD; by Reiboldt & Wolter, Sturgeon Bay, WI.

1902, Oct 28 Enrolled as CHARLES B. PACKARD.

1905, Apr 21 Owned Thomas H. Smith Stone Co., Sevastopol, WI.

1906, Sep 16 Sunk by rocks (or sunken schooner ARMENIA), Pelee Passage, Lake Erie; raised & repaired.

1913 Abandoned.

Notes
From the Collection of:
C. Patrick Labadie
Sources:
Edward J. Dowling Collection, University of Detroit - Mercy
Enrollments, U.S. National Archives
Great Lakes Register
William MacDonald Collection, Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Detroit
H. G. Runge Collection, Milwaukee Public Library
Steamboat Era in the Muskokas by Richard Tatley
Donald V. Baut
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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