Wisconsin Maritime Museum

Winslow (Tug (Towboat), 1862)

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
Winslow
Year of Build:
1862
Rebuilt:
1. 1865, Quayle and Martin, Cleveland, Ohio;
2. 1874;
3. 1893;
Official Number:
26243
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
Cleveland, Ohio
Vessel Type:
Tug (Towboat)
Additional vessel types:
Revenue Cutter
Hull Materials:
Wood
Bow Type:
Plain Head
Builder Name:
Quayle and Martin
Ownership Notes:
Winslow, H. J., (1862-1868); Winslow, Rufus K., (1863-1868); Anderson, (1863); Winslow, N. C., (1862-1864); Ballentine, James W., (1864-1873); Grummond, S. B., (1873-1892); Boutell (Bantell), Benjamin, (1892-1902); Reid Wrecking & Towing Company, Ltd., (1902-1907); Pardee, F. F., (1907-1911);
Master(s):
Anderson, Robert, (1862-1864); Ottinger, (1864); Kimball, Joseph, (1865); Ballentine, Robert, (1868); Sinclair, C., (1869); Allen, Thomas, (1873); Gowin, F., (1873); Danger, F., (1874); Boutell, Benjamin, (1892-1893);
Power
Number of Masts:
0 (1862)
Hull Dimensions
1862
Length: 126.2' Width/Beam: 20.04' Depth: 11.02'
1865
Length: 129.3' Width/Beam: 21.9' Depth: 10.9'
1893
Length: 129' Width/Beam: 22' Depth: 17.4'
Tonnage
1862
Gross: 265 + 39/95
1865
Gross: 210.67
1874
Gross: 237.97 Net: 152
1893
Gross: 290.53 Net: 186.41
Enrollments/Registration
May 10, 1862
   Port: Cleveland Number: 44 of 1862
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: New Vessel
Next document: Cleveland 4-14-1864
April 14, 1864
   Port: Cleveland Number: 15 of 1864
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Cleveland 5-10-1865

Next document: (Hull Abandoned and Machinery

Next document: Put in a New Hull)
May 10, 1865
   Port: Cleveland Number: 72 of 1865
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Rebuilt (New)
Next document: Detroit 3-23-1868
March 23, 1868
   Port: Detroit Number: 2 of 1868
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Detroit 4-20-1869
April 20, 1869
   Port: Detroit Number: 37 of 1869
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Detroit 4-4-1873
April 4, 1873
   Port: Detroit Number: 87 of 1873
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Detroit 3-31-1874
March 31, 1874
   Port: Detroit Number: 77 of 1874
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Tonnage Changed
Next document: Port Huron 4-18-1892
April 18, 1892
   Port: Port Huron Number: 139 of 1892
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Port Huron 5-19-1893
May 19, 1893
   Port: Port Huron Number: 167 of 1893
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Rebuilt
Next document: Port Huron 10-12-1896
October 12, 1896
   Port: Port Huron
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
History
Classification:
a. Propeller (Tug), Winslow (1862-1911)
Nationality:
American (1862-1902); Canadian (1902-1911);
Chronology:
1. 6/13/1862, Cleveland, broke cross head engine and cylinder, repaired;
2. 9/00/1863, Detroit River, broke machinery and repaired, $2, 300 loss;
3. 10/7/1864, Cleveland, ashore and sank, (4 lives lost), $25, 000 loss;
4. 4/00/1869, broke her anchors and grounded in the Detroit River, released, $300 loss;
5. 8/00/1871, Lake Huron, broke her cylinder and repaired, $1, 000 loss;
6. 6/4/1892, 1 + 1/2 miles south of Brown's Dock, Point Pelee, Lake Erie, ashore and released;
7. 8/21/1911, Meldrum Bay, Lake Huron, caught fire and burned;
Notes
General notes:
In1865, new hull which received her machinery was also a Tug named Winslow;
(9/00/1864), she was chartered by U.S. Government to be used as a Revenue Cutter and was outfitted in Buffalo;.
Machinery: Steeple compound engine, built by Marine Iron Works, Bay City, Michigan in 1892, 22-40 x 30; 30" diameter x 30" stroke; Boiler: one fire box, 9.6" x 16', built by T. McGregor, in 1881 at Detroit, Michigan;
She had a horns head and neck of an elk on top of her pilot house and an Indian Warrior on top of her pipe;
Sources:
1. Master Abstracts: Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan;
2. Enrollment: Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan;
3. John Poole's notes;
4. Detroit Advertiser and Tribune: 5/12/1862;
5. Marine Casualties on the Great Lakes, (1863-1873), Record Group 26, Records of the United States Coast Guard:
6. Captain J. W. Hall, Marine Disasters on the Western Lakes during 1869:
7. Wright's Master Sheet;
8. Canadian Coastal and Inland Steam Vessels, 1809-1930;
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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