Also known as:

UNITED KINGDOM

Year of Build:

1828

Built at:

Niagara, ONT

Vessel Type:

Steamer

Hull Materials:

Wood

Original Owner and Location:

Robert Hamilton et al., Queenston, ONT

Propulsion:

Sidewheel

Engine Type:

Horizontal

# Cylinders:

2

Propulsion Notes:

Engine came from FRONTENAC (1816); 2 horizontal high pressure engines, 120 hp.

Length:

140'

Beam:

28'

Tonnage (old style):

450

Final Location:

Near Oswego, NY.
Lake Ontario.

Date:

Nov 1835

How:

Wrecked.

Notes:

Reported wrecked, one source says she was resurrected and rebuilt to schooner BIRMINGHAM.

1828 Ran Niagara to York (Toronto) & Prescott, ONT.

1832 Owned Robert Hamilton, Esq. Niagara, ONT., remodelled & modernized renamed UNITED KINGDOM.

From the Collection of:

C. Patrick Labadie

Sources:

Edward J. Dowling Collection, University of Detroit - Mercy

John E. Poole notes, Bowling Green State University

Newspaper Clippings

Steamboat Era in the Muskokas by Richard Tatley