Wisconsin Maritime Museum

Rocket (Propeller, 1857)

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
Rocket
Year of Build:
1857
Major repairs:
1863;
Rebuilt:
1. 1877, Cleveland, Ohio;
Official Number:
21144
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
Cleveland, Ohio
Vessel Type:
Propeller
Additional vessel types:
Barge
Hull Materials:
Wood
Bow Type:
Plain Head
Builder Name:
Peck and Masters
Ownership Notes:
New York Central Railroad Company, (Richmond, Dean, Mgr.), (1857-1867); Price, J., (1862); Buffalo & Green Bay Transportation Company, (1866); Fargo, William G., (1867-1868); Kelly, David M., (1868-1870); Lake and River Transportation Company, (1870-1873); Shaylor, E., (1870); Hanna, H. M., (1873-1877); Gooding, J., (1873); Chapin, George W., (1873-18770; Caldwell, Seth, (1873-1874); Dobille, E., (1877-1879); Coats, Jane, (1877); Bradley, A., (1877-1879);
Master(s):
Waters, (1857); Walls, W., (1857); Price, J., (1862); Gaylord, G. A., (1867-1873); Wetmore, W. H., (1867); Nichols, H., (1873-1874); Doville, Ed, (1877);
Power
Number of Masts:
1 (1857)
Hull Dimensions
1857
Length: 181.07' Width/Beam: 29.2' Depth: 12.12'
1865
Length: 183.6' Width/Beam: 30' Depth: 10.09'
1877
Length: 183.6' Width/Beam: 30' Depth: 10.9'
Tonnage
1857
Gross: 611 + 13/95
1865
Gross: 702.47
1877
Gross: 371.04
Enrollments/Registration
May 19, 1857
   Port: Buffalo Number: 88 of 1857
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: New Vessel
Next document: Detroit 4-28-1862
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April 28, 1862
   Port: Detroit Number: 56 of 1862
Document Type: Temporary Enrollment
Reason: Papers Lost
Next document: Buffalo 9-4-1865
September 4, 1865
   Port: Buffalo Number: 319 of 1865
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Remeasured (Readmeasured)
Next document: Buffalo 5-4-1867
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May 4, 1867
   Port: Buffalo Number: 78 of 1867
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Milwaukee 4-29-1868
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April 29, 1868
   Port: Milwaukee Number: 120 of 1868
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Cleveland 5-11-1859
May 11, 1869
   Port: Cleveland Number: 3 of 1869
Document Type: Temporary Enrollment
Reason: License Expired
Next document: Milwaukee 5-19-1869
May 19, 1869
   Port: Milwaukee Number: 118 of 1869
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Arrived at Home Port
Next document: Milwaukee 5-16-1870
May 16, 1870
   Port: Milwaukee Number: 115 of 1870
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Buffalo 5-18-1873
May 18, 1873
   Port: Buffalo Number: 73 of 1873
Document Type: Temporary Registration
Reason: License Expired
Next document: Milwaukee 5-28-1873
May 28, 1873
   Port: Milwaukee Number: 174 of 1873
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Arrived at Home Port
Next document: Cleveland 6-27-1873
June 27, 1873
   Port: Cleveland Number: 127 of 1873
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Cleveland 6-30-1874
June 30, 1874
   Port: Cleveland Number: 109 of 1874
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Cleveland 5-3-1877
May 3, 1877
   Port: Cleveland Number: 56 of 1877
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Cleveland 10-2-1877
October 2, 1877
   Port: Cleveland Number: 24 of 1877
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Tonnage and Rig Changed
Next document: Cleveland 6-30-1879

Next document: (Vessel Abandoned, Unfit for

Next document: Service)
History
Classification:
a. Propeller, Rocket (1857-1877);
b. Barge, Rocket (1877-1879)
Nationality:
American (1857-1879)
Chronology:
1. 7/9/1859, North Point, Milwaukee, Lake Michigan, ashore in a fog and released, hull $8, 000 loss, cargo $40, 000 loss;
2. 9/00/1859, caught on fire in the hold and repaired, $100 loss;
3. 8/00/1860, Lake Huron, damaged her machinery and repaired, $450 loss;
4. 4/00/1861, Buffalo Harbor, collision, (Schooner, D. McInnis), repaired, $300 loss;
5. 8/00/1864, Green Bay, ashore and released, $4, 750 loss;
6. 8/00/1868, Middle Ground Port Huron, St. Clair River, ashore and released, $2, 000 loss;
7. 4/00/1869, Buffalo, collision and repaired, $225 loss;
8. 4/00/1869, parted her chain at Green Bay and drifted in the ice, rescued;
9. 10/00/1869, Fighting Island, Detroit River, grounded and lightered off;
10. 10/00/1871, Lake Huron, broke her cylinder and repaired, $6, 500 loss;
11. 5/00/1874, ashore on St. Joseph's Island, Green Bay, released, $500 loss;
12. 6/00/1874, ashore and lightered off at fighting Island, $400 loss;
12. 12/2/1874, Toledo, Lake Erie, sank by ice and raised;
13. 11/2/1877, Buffalo, ashore, scuttled, hull stripped and abandoned;
14. 4/14/1880, wreckers last futile attempt to raise her failed and the hull was abandoned;
Notes
General notes:
In1859 she had a cabin built on her upper deck;
Homeports- Buffalo- (1857-1868); Green Bay- (1868-1873); Cleveland- (1873-1879);
Machinery: Direct acting vertical low pressure engine built by Cuyahoga Steam Furnace Company, Cleveland, Ohio;
She was valued at $28,600, in 1860; $25,000, in 1866; $18,000, in 1876;
Sources:
1. Master Abstracts: Buffalo, New York; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Milwaukee, Wisconsin;
2. Enrollment: Buffalo, New York; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Milwaukee, Wisconsin;
3. John Poole's notes;
4. Early American Steamers, Vol. V;
5. Vessel Register: (1860-1876);
6. Buffalo Morning Express: 3/11/1861;
7. Buffalo Commercial Advertiser: 3/11/1861, 1/22/1862;
8. Marine Casualties on the Great Lakes, (1863-1873), Record Group 26, Records of the United States Coast Guard:
9. Captain J. W. Hall, Marine Disasters on the Western Lakes during 1869:
10. Merchant Steam Vessels of the United States, 1790-1868; (The Lytle-Holdcamper List);
11. Wright's Master Sheet;
12 Chicago Inter Ocean: 12/25/1874:
Contact
Contact
Wisconsin Maritime Museum
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Website:
https://www.wisconsinmaritime.org/

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Manitowoc, WI,54220
920-684-0218




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