ACONTIAS (1856, Schooner)

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
ACONTIAS
Year of Build:
1856
Official Number:
1394
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
Oswego, NY
Vessel Type:
Schooner
Hull Materials:
Wood
Number of Decks:
1
Master Carpenter:
James Navagh
Original Owner and Location:
Avery & Baker, Oswego, NY
Power
Number of Masts:
2
Hull Dimensions
Tonnage (old style):
374
Final Disposition
Final Location:
Presque Isle, MI,
Lake Huron.
Date:
29 Oct 1887
How:
Drifted ashore.
History
Chronology:

1860, Jun 1 Damaged in collision with propeller GLOBE near Bar Point, ONT, mouth of Detroit River.

1863, Aug 27 Aground Stony Point, MI, Detroit River; got off.

1863, Nov Wrecked Colchester, ONT.

1866, Jun 9 Rebuilt at Detroit; 136.5 x 25.8 x 10.5; 264.4 gross tons; owned John P. Clark, Detroit.

1866, June 11 Owned John Moore, Detroit.

1867, Jul Collided with propeller AKRON, Lake Erie.

1869, Sep Struck on Bar Point & sprang leak.

1869, Oct Aground Fighting Island, ONT, Detroit River.

1869, Nov Outfit damaged in gale, Lake Erie.

1872, Nov 17 Ashore Sodus, NY.

1877, Sep 29 Owned S. B. Grummond, Detroit; US 1394.

1880, Mar 26 Owned John & P. J. Monaghan, Detroit.

1882, Sep 25 Owned Richard M. Hutchings, Detroit; 251.18 net tons.

1883, Aug Aground Lake Michigan; drydocked at Chicago, IL.

1884, Apr 22 Owned John V. Moran, Detroit.

1884, Apr 30 Drifting near shore in rain & light fog; saved.

1884, Oct 2 Pounded hard against dock in gale.

1885, May 6 Owned M. H. O'Toole, Detroit.

1887, Oct 29 Wrecked.

Notes
From the Collection of:
C. Patrick Labadie
Sources:
Donald V. Baut
Board of Lake Underwriters Marine Directory
C. E. Feltner Enrollments Database
Newspaper Clippings
John E. Poole notes, Bowling Green State University
Steamboat Era in the Muskokas by Richard Tatley
Contact
Contact
Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library
Email:specialcollections@alpenalibrary.org
Website:
Agency street/mail address:
211 N. First Ave.
Alpena, Michigan 49707
USA
(989)356-6188
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