Year of Build:

1862

Built at:

Dunnville, ONT

Vessel Type:

Schooner

Hull Materials:

Wood

Number of Decks:

1

Builder Name:

Wm. Quidder

Original Owner and Location:

McBirney, Port Dover, ONT

Number of Masts:

2

Length:

75.9'

Beam:

20.4'

Depth:

8.2'

Tonnage (old style):

100

Final Location:

3 1/2 miles N. of Saugeen River, ONT.
Lake Huron.

Date:

7 Nov 1880

How:

Storm.

Final Cargo:

Lumber.

Notes:

Bound Michaels Bay, Manitoulin Island for Goderich when driven ashore & wrecked.

1872 Rebuilt & reduced in size at Dunnville, ONT; 82 tons. Owned Mowatt et al, Pt. Dover.

1878 Owned Jas. Mowatt, Port Dover, ONT.

1880, Nov 7 Wrecked Saugeen River, ONT.

From the Collection of:

C. Patrick Labadie

Sources:

Board of Lake Underwriters Marine Directory

Canadian Sessional Papers

Steamboat Era in the Muskokas by Richard Tatley