Angelica (Sloop, 1771)

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Identification

Vessel name:: Angelica
Year of Build:: 1771
Rebuilt:: (1878) at Navy Island;

Construction and Ownership

Built at:: Detroit, MIchigan
Vessel Type:: Sloop
Hull Materials:: Wood
Ownership Notes:: Ellice, (1771); Sterling, (1771); Price (Phyn), (1771); Campbell, (1771); Porteus, (1771); Grant, Alexander,***
(1773-1777);
Master(s):: Wright, Richard, (1771-1774); Ferrin, William, (1777-1779); Ford, Henry, (1779), Harrow, Alexander, (1781); Ford, (1782) Underston, James, (1784);

Power

Number of Masts:: 1 (1771)

Hull Dimensions

1771: Length: 52' Width/Beam: 17.6' **" Depth: 8.3'

Tonnage

1771: Gross: 45
1778: Gross: 66

Enrollments/Registration

1778: Port: Navy Island
Reason: Rebuilt

History

Classification:: a. Sloop, Angelica (1771-1783)
Nationality:: British (1771-1783)
Chronology:: 1. 5/00/1778, Lake Sinclair, ashore and released;
2. 5/20/1779, Long Point, Lake Erie, ashore and released;
3. 10/16/1783, Lake Erie, sank;

Notes

General notes:: * J. H. Beers, History of the Great Lakes, has this vessel built in 1771 at Detroit, Michigan with a gross tonnage of 66.
George A. Cuthbertson, Freshwater, says that the Angelica was built by the British at Navy Island in 1778. James C.
Mills, Our Inland Seas, mentions a 45 ton Angelica and a 64 ton Angelica, but fails to mention a place of built for either.
It is possible that the Angelica could have been built in 1771 and rebuilt in 1778 and listed as a new vessel.
**Cuthbertson gives width as 19.6' which is an error;
***Vessel is owned by Alexander Grant, but is employed by the British Government;
At one time she carried an armament of four swivels and nine muskets.
Michigan Pioneer Collection, Vol. 24, p. 12: List of his Majesty's armed vessels on Lake Erie, 1783, has the Angelica
built at Detroit in 1772, 59 tons, and lost in November, 1783;
1777, armed with six swivels, noted as not worthy of repairs;
Telescope, Vol. 31, Number 4, July - August: says badly damaged while in winter layup at Mackinac Island, December,
1780;
Macpherson list her wrecked in December, 1783;
Sources:: 1. John Poole's Notes;
2. James C. Mills, Our Inland Seas, page 64, 71;
3. George A. Cuthberson, Freshwater;
4. J. H. Beers, History of the Great Lakes;
5. Michigan Pioneer Collection, Vol. 10, p. 618; Vol. 11, p. 402, 424; Vol. 20, p. 2; Vol. 24, p. 12, 14;
6. Wisconsin Historical Collection, Vol. XI, p. 185, 187, 189, 199;
7. Telescope, Vol. 31, Number 4, July - August, p. 95;
8. Burton Historical Collection Leaflet, January, 1924, Vol. ll, No. 3, p. 23, 24, 29;
9. K. R. Macpherson, List of Vessels Employed on British Naval Service on the Great Lakes, 1755-1875, Ontario
Historical Society, September, 1963, Vol. LV, p. 174;
10. Burton Historical Collection, Vol. I: p. 53, p. 78, p. 86, p. 101, p. 176;

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