Wisconsin Maritime Museum

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
Contest
Year of Build:
1855
Major repairs:
1863;
Rebuilt:
1. 1870;
2. 1874;
Official Number:
4348
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
Buffalo, New York
Vessel Type:
Schooner
Additional vessel types:
Barge
Hull Materials:
Wood
Bow Type:
Egale Figure Head (1855)
Builder Name:
Frederick Nelson Jones
Ownership Notes:
Pratt, S., (1855); Mixer, H. M., (1856); Taylor, A. C., (1858-1864); Jewett, (1860-1864); Winslow, Henry C., (1865-1866); Gunderson, M., (1866); Winslow, N. C., (1866); Morgan, S., (1869); Goodrich, J., (1870): Coble, J., (1871); Cobb, S., (1874-1880); McNulty, M. J., (1882);
Master(s):
Pratt, (1855); Newmann, E., (1856); Rogers, J., (1858); Collins, Thomas, (1865); Gunderson, (1866); Hays, J., (1869); Coble, J., (1871); Day, S., (1874); Elliott, G. B., (1880); Bessell, William, (1882):
Power
Number of Masts:
2 (1855)
Hull Dimensions
1855
Length: 126' 0" Width/Beam: 28' 8" Depth: 11' 0"
1865
Length: 127' Width/Beam: 29' Depth: 10.9'
Tonnage
1855
Gross: 359 + 35/95
1865
Gross: 208.55
Enrollments/Registration
September 19, 1855
   Port: Buffalo Number: 210 of 1855
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: New Vessel
Next document: Buffalo 5-17-1856
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May 17, 1856
   Port: Buffalo Number: 106 of 1856
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Buffalo 5-28-1858
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May 28, 1858
   Port: Buffalo Number: 68 of 1858
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Buffalo 2-17-1865
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February 17, 1865
   Port: Buffalo Number: 9 of 1865
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Buffalo 11-14-1865
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November 14, 1865
   Port: Buffalo Number: 409 of 1865
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Remeasured (Readmeasured)
Next document: Buffalo 3-22-1866
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March 22, 1866
   Port: Buffalo Number: 29 of 1866
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Chicago 4-4-1866
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April 4, 1866
   Port: Chicago Number: 648 of 1866
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Detroit 8-28-1869
August 28, 1869
   Port: Detroit Number: 115 of 1869
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Chicago 1-21-1870
January 21, 1870
   Port: Chicago Number: 101 of 1870
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Rig Changed*
Next document: Chicago 3-27-1871
March 27, 1871
   Port: Chicago Number: 108 of 1871
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Chicago 3-28-1874
March 28, 1874
   Port: Chicago Number: 172 of 1874
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Rig Changed
Next document: Chicago 6-11-1880
June 11, 1880
   Port: Chicago Number: 184 of 1880
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Chicago 4-3-1882
April 3, 1882
   Port: Chicago Number: 87 of 1882
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Chicago 12-4-1882

Next document: (Vessel Wrecked & Total Loss)
History
Classification:
a. Schooner, Contest (1855-1869);
b. Barge, Contest (1870-1874);
c. Schooner, Contest (1874-1882)
Nationality:
American (1855-1882)
Chronology:
1. 10/00/1855, South Passage, Lake Huron, collision, (Bark, American Republic), repaired, $2, 000 loss;
2. 10/00/1858, put in at Detroit, having lost anchors, chains and sails, refitted, $1, 100 loss;
3. 10/00/1858, damaged cargo of wheat, $200 loss;
4. 11/00/1859, Buffalo Harbor, collision, (Propeller, Susquehanna), repaired, $400 loss;
5. 4/00/1868, Lake Huron, sprang a leak, cargo lost, repaired, $11, 400 loss;
6. 9/25/1868, Point Au Pelee Island, Lake Erie, ashore, sank and raised, $11, 000 loss;
7. 10/25/1882, Whitehall, Lake Michigan, ashore, totally wrecked;
Notes
General notes:
1855, Built for Hart, Newman & Co.; Bought by S.W. Morgan & Co. 1868; Converted to a lumber barge; Unrigged 1870; Was rigged a schooner in 1874, but used & listed on underwriters vessel registers as a barge;
*But not on abstract;
1874, change of rig, became a schooner;
1860, she was valued at $9,500; 1873, she was valued at $4,000, formerly a schooner; 1879, she is listed with no value as a barge;
Sources:
1. Master Abstracts: Buffalo, New York; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan;
2. Enrollment: Buffalo, New York; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan;
3. John Poole's notes;
4. Vessel Register: 1860, 1863, 1864, 1866, 1871, 1873, 1876, 1878, 1879;
5. Buffalo Morning Express: 1/11/1856;
6. Buffalo Commercial Advertiser: 1/15/1859;
7. U.S. Merchant Vessels: (1868-1884);
8. Wright's Master Sheet;
Contact
Contact
Wisconsin Maritime Museum
Email:[email protected]
Website:
https://www.wisconsinmaritime.org/

Agency street/mail address:
75 Maritime Dr.
Manitowoc, WI,54220
920-684-0218




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