BARNUM, WILLIAM H. (1873, Bulk Freighter)

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Identification

Vessel name:: BARNUM, WILLIAM H.
Year of Build:: 1873
Official Number:: 80342

Construction and Ownership

Built at:: Detroit, MI
Vessel Type:: Bulk Freighter; Note: Near duplicate of NAHANT (1873)
Hull Materials:: Wood
Number of Decks:: 2
Builder Name:: Springwells Shipyard
Master Carpenter:: James Madison Jones
Original Owner and Location:: A. C. Burt & H. C. Ralph, Detroit, MI

Power

Number of Masts:: 2
Propulsion:: Screw
Engine Type:: High Pressure (including HPNC)
# Cylinders:: 1
# Boilers:: 1
# Propellers:: 1
Propulsion Notes:: Engine built by Frontier Iron Works, Detroit, MI. 7'4" x 17' boiler built Detroit Locomotive Works.

Hull Dimensions

Length:: 218.6'
Beam:: 34.8'
Depth:: 16.2'
Tonnage (gross):: 937.15

Final Disposition

Final Location:: 5 1/2 miles SE of Mackinac City, 1/2 mile from shore, Straits of Mackinac. Lake Huron
Date:: 3 Apr 1894
Final Depth:: 55'-74''
How:: Damage from ice caused leaks.
Final Cargo:: 55,000 bu. corn
Notes:: 1894, May 22 Documents surrendered Detroit "vessel lost, sunk in Straits of Mackinaw." 1963, Jul Wreck found. Rudder on display in St. Ignace.

History

Chronology:

1873, Apr 5 Launched.

1874, Jul 4 Collided with bark S. WATSON off Point Pelee, Lake Erie; sunk, recovered.

1878, Apr 3 Owned Robert P. Fitzgerald, Milwaukee; John Plankinton, Milwaukee; P. D. Armour, Chicago; J. F. Armour, Chicago, IL.

1878-79 Rebuilt, 1,212.51 gross tons.

1879, Dec Repaired.

1883, Apr 14 Owned Robert P. Fitzgerald, John Plankinton, P. D. Armour, Carrie L. Armour, 1058.68 net tons.

1885 218 x 34 x 21', caulked.

1886 Owned Robert P. Fitzgerald, P. D. Armour, Carrie L. Marvin.

1887 Large repairs.

1889, Mar 11 Owned Edward Smith, James J. H. Brown & Joseph B. Rodgers, Buffalo; Ben Birdsall, Detroit; John C. Gauntlett, Ithaca, NY; Charles Goulder, Cleveland.

1890, Sep Struck dock at Pt. Huron in fog, badly damaged.

1892, Feb 5 Owned James T. Kenney, Buffalo; Goulder, Brown, Rodgers, Birdsall, & Gauntlett as above.

1892, May 9 Ashore on Hare Island, Lake Superior.

1893, Apr 6 Owned Brown, Rodgers, Birdsall & Gauntlett as above.

1893, Apr 17 Owned Chas. A. Chamberlain, Detroit; Harris G. Baker, Detroit; B. H. White, Detroit; Birdsall & Gauntlett as above.

1894, Apr 3 Sunk.

Notes

From the Collection of:: C. Patrick Labadie
Sources:: Board of Lake Underwriters Marine Directory; C. E. Feltner Enrollments Database; C. Patrick Labadie; Edward J. Dowling Collection, University of Detroit - Mercy; Enrollments, U.S. National Archives; H. G. Runge Collection, Milwaukee Public Library; John E. Poole notes, Bowling Green State University; Newspaper Clippings; Steamboat Era in the Muskokas by Richard Tatley