Erie (Steamer, 1837)

Description

Identification

Construction and Ownership

Hull Dimensions

Tonnage

Enrollments/Registration

May 26, 1838: Port: Erie Number: 4 of 1838
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: New Vessel
Next document: Presque Isle 10-4-1838
October 4, 1838: Port: Presque Isle Number: 6 of 1838
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Presque Isle 4-10-1839
April 10, 1839: Port: Presque Isle Number: 1 of 1839
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Presque Isle 4-27-1840
April 27, 1840: Port: Presque Isle Number: 3 of 1840
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner

History

Classification:: a. Steamer, Erie (1837-1841)
Nationality:: American (1837-1841)
Chronology:: 1. 5/00/1838, Dunkirk, Lake Erie, broke her engine, (broken piston strap and destroyed cylinder); was towed in by
Steamer, Champlain and repaired, $2, 000 loss;
2. 9/22/1838, Buffalo, ashore in a fog and released, (passengers);
3. 5/30/1839, Detroit River, collision, (sank Canadian Steamer, Minnissetunk), repaired;
4. 9/10;/1839, Detroit River, collision, (Canadian Steamer, Daniel Webster), ashore and released, $500 loss;
5. 8/5/1840, Bar Point, Detroit River, boiler explosion and repaired, (4 lives lost);
6. 8/00/1840, Dunkirk, Lake Erie, collision, (sank Schooner, Iowa), repaired;
7. 8/9/1841, 8 miles off Silver Creek, New York, Lake Erie, burned, (242 lives lost), sank and raised;
8. 8/22/1845, both shafts and boilers were salvaged;
9. 6/30/1854, Erie was raised and hull towed to Buffalo on 8/9/1854, where she was salvaged; Wells and Gowan, of Boston,
assisted by Mann, Vail and Company did the wrecking; 30 feet of the bow broke off when she was raised; The bow was
towed to Point Abino where it was searched and then towed out into the Lake an allowed to sink again;

Notes

General notes:: *Ship builder out of Philadelphia; Vessel was built at the foot of French Street;
Machinery: Vertical beam, low pressure engine built by Thomas Holloway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1837; Cylinder, 52" diameter x 10' stroke; two return flue boilers; Wheels, 27' diameter; 250 hp., speed was 12 miles per hour;
Sources:: 1. Master Abstracts: Erie, Pennsylvania;
2. Enrollment: Erie, Pennsylvania;
3. John Poole's notes;
4. Early American Steamers, Vol. II;
5. J. H. Beers, History of the Great Lakes, Vol. I, p. 634
6. Merchant Steam Vessels of the United States, 1790-1868; (The Lytle-Holdcamper List);

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