COLORADO (1867, Package Freighter)

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Identification

Vessel name:: COLORADO
Year of Build:: 1867
Official Number:: 4267

Construction and Ownership

Built at:: Buffalo, NY
Vessel Type:: Package Freighter; Note: Passenger propeller; sister ship NEBRASKA; 2 stacks; plain head & round stern; largest propellers at the time.
Hull Materials:: Wood
Number of Decks:: 2
Builder Name:: Mason & Bidwell
Master Carpenter:: Charles Bidwell
Original Owner and Location:: Ensign & Co., Buffalo, NY.

Power

Propulsion:: Screw
# Boilers:: 2
# Propellers:: 2

Hull Dimensions

Length:: 254.6'
Beam:: 35'
Depth:: 13'
Tonnage (gross):: 1470
Tonnage (net):: 1321
Capacity:: 87,580+ bushels oats.

Final Disposition

Final Location:: Sawtooth Reef, near Eagle River, MI.
Lake Superior.
Date:: 19 Sep 1898
How:: Stranded in smoke from forest fires.
Final Cargo:: Flour.
Notes:: Cargo saved. 1898, Sep 21 Given up as total loss. 1898, Sep 23 Broken up by storm.

History

Chronology:

1867, Nov 23 Holed near Milwaukee, WI; beached.

1867 - 70 Ran Buffalo, Milwaukee, & Chicago for Commercial Line Steamers.

1870 - 73 Ran Buffalo, Milwaukee & Chicago line for Union Steamboat Co.

1873, Nov 4 Ashore Sleeping Bear Point, Lake Michigan.

1876 Repaired.

1877, Apr 14 Left Union Steamboat Co.

1877, May 5 Collided with & sank schooner R.J. GIBBS, Port Huron, MI.

1878 Ran Buffalo, Milwaukee, & Chicago for Commercial Line Steamers.

1878, Nov Aground Lime Kiln Crossing, Detroit River; released.

1881 Major repairs.

1883, Oct 1 Boiler explosion; several killed.

1884, Mar 29 Owned Capt. Maytham, Buffalo.

1884, May 10 Owned Donaldson Bros.

1884 Repaired from explosion; new engines & boilers; altered to carry bulk as well as package freight; 2 steeple engines: 20 & 36 x 36"; 2 fire box(?) boilers: 8' x 14", Stearns Manufacturing Co., Erie, PA.

1884, Sep 3 Owned Peter Miller et al, Buffalo, NY.

1884, Oct Ran for Ward's Detroit line doing flour trade.

1885, Aug 6 Broke cylinder off Long Point, Lake Erie.

1886, Mar Repaired Mill's Drydock, Buffalo; ran Green Bay & Chicago for Lackawanna & Green Bay Line.

1887, Apr 1 Owned W.F. Botsford & Co., Port Huron; ran Duluth & Port Huron with DEAN RICHMOND.

1888, May 18 Struck ice; stove hole in bow.

1889, Fall Ashore near Grand Haven, MI; both arches broken.

1889, Sep 11 Repaired Chicago.

1890, Spring Flour trade, Sarnia & W. Superior.

1890, Nov 22 Aground upper end of Lake George flats, St. Mary's River.

1891, Mar 29 Repaired Port Huron.

1891, May 6 Grounded Neebish, MI.

1891, May 16 Repaired Detroit, MI.

1892, Jun 5 Stranded in fog on southeast end of Thunder Bay Island; released.

1893, May 26 Ashore near Gladstone, MI.

1894, Nov 21 Aground off Whitefish, MI.

1898, Sep 19 Stranded Sawtooth Reef, near Eagle River, MI.

Notes

From the Collection of:: C. Patrick Labadie
Sources:: Donald V. Baut; Burton Collection; Dossin Great Lakes Museum; Erik Heyl, Early American Steamers; Lytle List; William MacDonald Collection, Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Detroit; Newspaper Clippings; Steamboat Era in the Muskokas by Richard Tatley; Peter J. VanderLinden