Also known as:

BAVARIAN;ALGERIAN;CORNWALL

Year of Build:

1855

Official Number:

71609

Built at:

Montreal, QUE

Vessel Type:

Steamer

Hull Materials:

Iron

Builder Name:

Dunbar & Bartley

Original Owner and Location:

J. Hamilton, Kingston, ONT.

Ownership Notes:

Hull prefabricated on the river Clyde in Scotland (Hull 15 at J & G. Thomson, Clyde Bank shipyard) shipped in pieces & assembled at Montreal.

Propulsion:

Sidewheel

Engine Type:

Vertical Beam (Walking Beam)

# Cylinders:

1

# Boilers:

2

Propulsion Notes:

45 x 120" stroke engine. 19 x 5'6" firebox boiler.

Length:

174'

Beam:

26.2'

Depth:

9'

Tonnage (old style):

433

Final Location:

Off Amherst Island, ONT.
Lake Ontario.

Date:

1928

How:

Scuttled.

Notes:

Dynamited & sunk in deep water.

1855 Registered Kingston, ONT, ran Lake Ontario & St. Lawrence River passenger & freight.

1855 Owned by Hon. John Hamilton of Kingston

1861, Jul 1 Owned Canadian Inland Steam Navigation Co. (later Canadian Navigation Company)

1872, Jun 11 Burned at Grenadier Island; two lives lost.

1873 Rebuilt, Montreal, Quebec; renamed BAVARIAN.

1873 November: Burned, off Whitby, ONT, captain & 10 others lost; rebuilt Kingston, 175 x 27 x 10', 914 gross / 575 net tons;

1874 Rebuilt, at Kingston; 914 gross, 576 net tons, renamed ALGERIAN.

1875 Owned Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co., Montreal

1905 December Renamed CORNWALL.

1912 Owned Calvin Co, Garden Island, ONT. Cut down to wrecking tug, 176.5 x 27 x 9.75', 588 gross / 304 net tons.

1913 Owned John Donnelly, Kingston.

1928 Scuttled.

From the Collection of:

C. Patrick Labadie