ALPENA (1874)

Description

Identification

Construction and Ownership

Power

Propulsion:: Screw
Engine Type:: High Pressure (including HPNC)
# Cylinders:: 1
# Boilers:: 1
# Propellers:: 1
Propulsion Notes:: Wheel 9'6". Engine & boiler from Frontier Iron Works, Detroit. 27 cyl, 32" stroke. Boiler 8.5 x 16'.

Hull Dimensions

Final Disposition

Final Location:: St. Clair Flats.
Lake St. Clair, MI.
Date:: 26 Oct 1891
How:: Burned.
Final Cargo:: Lumber.
Notes:: Downbound with lumber cargo; caught fire in the Flats at 10 p.m. & burned to the water's edge some three miles below the ship canal where she sank.

History

Chronology:

1874, Mar Launched & taken to Detroit for her machinery.

1874, Apr 20 Enrolled Detroit.

1882 Tyler & Co., Buffalo, NY.

1886, Mar 11 Owned Charles Bewick, Detroit; A.W. & W.B. Comstock, Alpena.

1887, Apr 14 Owned Charles Hebard, Pequaming, MI.

1890, Feb 28 Owned Charles H. Westcott & J.W. Westcott, Detroit; L.P. Mason and S.V. Haskell, Muskegon.

1890, Apr 29 Went aground at Detour during heavy snow storm; repaired Detroit.

1891, Jun 15 Owned J.W. Westcott, Detroit & L.P. Mason & S.P. Haskell, Saginaw.

1891, Aug Blew cylinder head, Lake Erie; repaired Hodges in Detroit.

1891, Oct. 26 Burned Lake St. Clair.

Notes

From the Collection of:: C. Patrick Labadie
Sources:: Edward J. Dowling Collection, University of Detroit - Mercy; Enrollments, U.S. National Archives; Newspaper Clippings; John E. Poole notes, Bowling Green State University; H. G. Runge Collection, Milwaukee Public Library; Steamboat Era in the Muskokas by Richard Tatley; Peter J. VanderLinden