CITY OF GREEN BAY (1872, Schooner)

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
CITY OF GREEN BAY
Year of Build:
1872
Official Number:
125216
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
Green Bay, WI
Vessel Type:
Schooner
Hull Materials:
Wood
Number of Decks:
1
Builder Name:
Th. Christianson
Original Owner and Location:
L. Nau, Green Bay, WI.
Power
Number of Masts:
3
Hull Dimensions
Length:
145'
Beam:
25'
Depth:
11'
Tonnage (gross):
346
Tonnage (net):
329
Final Disposition
Final Location:
2 miles S of South Haven, MI.
Lake Michigan.

Date:
3 Oct 1887
How:
Wrecked.
Final Cargo:
Iron ore.
Notes:
Took on water in gale, driven ashore.
History
Chronology:

1872, Aug Launched Green Bay, WI.

1873 Owned Lambert, et al, Green Bay.

1876 Owned C. Elphicke, Sheboygan.

1877, Nov Sailed Montreal - Europe with grain.

1879 Returned to lakes, grain & ore trade.

1883, May Ashore on Thunder Bay Island & lightered cargo coal; towed to Port Huron for repairs.

1883, Jun Returned to Alpena, reloaded coal for Sheboygan.

1886, Nov 21 Almost foundered off Big Point, Ausable, saved by jettisoning deck load, 70 tons pig iron.

1887, Oct 3 Wrecked at South Haven, Lake Michigan.

Notes
From the Collection of:
C. Patrick Labadie
Sources:
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
Board of Lake Underwriters Marine Directory
Edward J. Dowling Collection, University of Detroit - Mercy
Inland Lloyds’ Marine Directory
Contact
Contact
Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library
Email:specialcollections@alpenalibrary.org
Website:
https://www.alpenalibrary.org

Agency street/mail address:
211 N. First Ave.
Alpena, Michigan 49707
USA
(989)356-6188
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