Caroline (Schooner, 1846)

Description

Identification

Construction and Ownership

Built at:: Napanee, Ontario**
Vessel Type:: Schooner
Hull Materials:: Wood
Builder Name:: David Tait
Ownership Notes:: Chalmers, (1856-1864); Corby, (1860); Looney, G., (1866); Rose, (1869);
Master(s):: Chalmers, (1856-1857); Moody, Robert, (1860);

Power

Tonnage

History

Classification:: a. Schooner, Caroline ( 846- )
Nationality:: Canada (1846- )
Chronology:: 1. 11/00/1856, near Whitby, Ontario, ashore and released, (salt), $600 loss;
2. 11/00/1864, South Bay Point, Lake Ontario, ashore and released, $370 loss;

Notes

General notes:: *Vessel Registers note her as being built in 1847, but old records of Picton Harbor show her using that harbor in 1845 and
1846;
**Other sources say she was built at Belleville;
1864, she was valued at $1,200; 1866, she is valued at $800;
Sources:: 1. Vessel Registers: 1856, 1857, 1860, 1864, 1866, 1871;
2. Marine Casualties on the Great Lakes, (1863-1873), Record Group 26, Records of the United States Coast Guard:
3. Canadian Lake Vessel Register: 1869;
4. John Poole's notes;

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