EUPHRATES (1856, Propeller)

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
EUPHRATES
Year of Build:
1856
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
Buffalo, NY
Vessel Type:
Propeller
Hull Materials:
Wood
Number of Decks:
1
Builder Name:
Bidwell & Banta
Master Carpenter:
Joseph W. Banta
Original Owner and Location:
Buffalo & Toledo Transportation Co., Buffalo, NY.
Ownership Notes:
Company owned by New York Central Railroad.
Power
Number of Masts:
1
Propulsion:
Screw
Hull Dimensions
Length:
178'
Beam:
30'
Depth:
11' 8"
Tonnage (old style):
587 35/95
Final Disposition
Final Location:
Bar off Sandusky Harbor.
Lake Erie.
Date:
23 May 1862
How:
Grounded & leaking.
Notes:
Broke up, machinery later salvaged.
History
Chronology:

1856, Jul 29 Enrolled District of Buffalo Creek.

1857, May 23 Sailed under Toledo Line; owned New York Central & Northern Indiana Railroads.

1857, Oct Collided with schooner C. J. ROEDER.

1859 Enrolled Buffalo Creek District.

1860, Mar 17 Sailed under Buffalo, Cleveland, Sandusky & Toledo Line of Western Transportation Co.

1861, Mar 30 Expanded to Buffalo, Cleveland, Sandusky, Toledo, Detroit & Green Bay Line of propellers.

1862 Skipper Capt. Parsons.

1862, May 13 Stuck on bar while attempting to enter Sandusky harbor, sprang leak; broke up.

Notes
From the Collection of:
C. Patrick Labadie
Sources:
Donald V. Baut
H. G. Runge Collection, Milwaukee Public Library
Steamboat Era in the Muskokas by Richard Tatley
Edward J. Dowling Collection, University of Detroit - Mercy
Enrollments, U.S. National Archives
C. Patrick Labadie
Lytle List
Newspaper Clippings
John E. Poole notes, Bowling Green State University
Contact
Contact
Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library
Email:specialcollections@alpenalibrary.org
Website:
https://www.alpenalibrary.org

Agency street/mail address:
211 N. First Ave.
Alpena, Michigan 49707
USA
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