COTTRELL, HARRY (1886, Steambarge)

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
COTTRELL, HARRY
Year of Build:
1886
Official Number:
95884
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
Marine City, MI
Vessel Type:
Steambarge
Note: Round stern.
Hull Materials:
Wood
Number of Decks:
1
Master Carpenter:
Philip Rice
Original Owner and Location:
Philip Rice, Marine City, MI.
Power
Propulsion:
Screw
Hull Dimensions
Length:
75.3'
Beam:
15.4'
Depth:
5.9'
Tonnage (gross):
76.16
Tonnage (net):
58.69
Final Disposition
Final Location:
Bar Point, Harvest Bay.
Lake Erie.
Date:
Sep 1896
Final Depth:
20''
How:
Foundered in storm.
Final Cargo:
Coal.
Notes:
Bound for Marine City; crew escaped. 1897, Sep 3 Documents surrendered Port Huron, MI; "total loss".
History
Chronology:

1887, Apr Partially disabled, caused her tow schooner JANE RALSTON to run aground on Stony Island Reef.

1893, Mar 28 Owned Charles Cottrell & Daniel M. Demory, Marine City, MI.

1893, May 5 Owned Philip Rice, Marine City.

1894, Mar 22 Owned John & Margaret Atwell, Marine City.

1895, May 7 Owned Alex Anderson & John C. Hazen, Marine City.

1896, Sep 21 Owned George A. Phelps, Algonac, MI.

c1896, Sep 26 Foundered.

Notes
From the Collection of:
C. Patrick Labadie
Sources:
Donald V. Baut
Enrollments, U.S. National Archives
Steamboat Era in the Muskokas by Richard Tatley
Loudon G. Wilson
Contact
Contact
Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library
Email:specialcollections@alpenalibrary.org
Website:
https://www.alpenalibrary.org

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Alpena, Michigan 49707
USA
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