DAVIS, GEORGE (1846, Schooner)

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
DAVIS, GEORGE
Year of Build:
1846
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
Milan, OH
Vessel Type:
Schooner
Hull Materials:
Wood
Builder Name:
Salmon Ruggles
Original Owner and Location:
Henry C. Walker, et al, Milan, OH.
Power
Number of Masts:
2
Hull Dimensions
Length:
111' 3"
Beam:
23' 9"
Depth:
9' 10"
Tonnage (old style):
238 46/95
Final Disposition
Final Location:
Port Burwell, ONT.
Lake Erie.
Date:
Oct 1863
How:
Stranded & wrecked.
Final Cargo:
Salt.
History
Chronology:

1846, Apr Launched.

1848 Buffalo - Monteal, QUE.

1850 Buffalo - Sandusky service.

1853, Jun Repaired after leak.

1854, May 8 Owned W.W. Wilkinson, Toledo & James M. McKinlay, St. Clair.

1856, Nov 4 Stove bottom & sank, Grand River, Lake Erie.

1858, Jun 7 Enrolled Michilimackinac District; owned A.S. Wadsworth,

Grand Traverse, MI.

1859, May 12 Owned Capt. Reuben H. Becker, Cleveland.

1859, Oct 9 Grounded Cleveland, Lake Erie.

1861, Apr Struck pier & sank, Welland Canal.

1861, Nov Collided with schooner ATHENIAN, Lake Erie?

1863 Owned Roach & Connon, Chicago, IL.

1863, Oct Wrecked Port Burwell, ONT.

Notes
From the Collection of:
C. Patrick Labadie
Sources:
Enrollments, U.S. National Archives
Contact
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