DAVIS, CHARLES H. (1881, Barge)

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Identification

Vessel name:: DAVIS, CHARLES H.
Year of Build:: 1881
Official Number:: 34107

Construction and Ownership

Built at:: Saginaw, MI
Vessel Type:: Barge; Note: Tow barge.
Hull Materials:: Wood
Number of Decks:: 1
Builder Name:: A.P. Kenyon / T. Kinson
Original Owner and Location:: James H. Prentice, et al., Saginaw, MI.

Power

Number of Masts:: 2

Hull Dimensions

Length:: 151.9'
Beam:: 31'
Depth:: 9.1'
Tonnage (gross):: 345.6
Tonnage (net):: 328.32

Final Disposition

Final Location:: 1300 feet off breakwater, Cleveland, OH.
Lake Erie.
Date:: 13 Jun 1903
How:: Foundered.
Final Cargo:: Limestone.
Notes:: 1 - 3 lives lost.

History

Chronology:

1881, May 7 Enrolled Port Huron, MI.

1884 Owned A.W. Wright, et al, Saginaw, MI.

1884 Owned N. Merriman, Saginaw, MI.

1890 Owned Willis P. Knowlton & Annie Wright, Saginaw, MI; fitted with machinery, steeple compound 11 x 20 x 16', 185hp at 95rpm engine by S.F. Hodge & Co., Detroit, MI; 1 firebox boiler 5.5 x 111, 100# steam, McGregor, Detroit, MI.

1894 Rebuilt as screw steam barge, 1 mast, 15 x 31 x 9; 390 gross / 333 net tons; owned Wright & Dean, Saginaw, MI.

1894, Nov Ashore & released Starve Island.

1899 Owned Erustis W. Haskins, Saginaw; built pine.

1903, Jun 13 Foundered & sank outside Cleveland, OH.

Notes

From the Collection of:: C. Patrick Labadie
Sources:: Donald V. Baut; Beesons Marine Directory; Dossin Great Lakes Museum; Edward J. Dowling Collection, University of Detroit - Mercy; Enrollments, U.S. National Archives; Great Lakes Register; Loudon G. Wilson; Inland Seas, Great Lakes Historical Society; Gerry Metzler; Newspaper Clippings; H. G. Runge Collection, Milwaukee Public Library; Steamboat Era in the Muskokas by Richard Tatley; Peter J. VanderLinden