: Gerald C. Metzler Great Lakes Vessel Database

Description

Identification

Construction and Ownership

Built at:: Detroit, Michigan*
Vessel Type:: Schooner
Hull Materials:: Wood
Bow Type:: Plain Head
Master(s):: Horst, (1763); Colvell, (1765); Carver, (1768); St. Clair, (1774);

Power

Tonnage

History

Classification:: a. Schooner, Gladwyn (1762-1768)
Nationality:: British (1762-1768)
Chronology:: 1. 8/22/1763, Detroit River, falsely reported attacked by Indians;**
2. 8/28/1763, salvaged provisions from the wrecked Schooner, Beaver, and took them to Detroit, Michigan;
3. 6/00/1768, Catfish Creek, Lake Erie, ashore and wrecked, (all hands lost), was later released;

Notes

General notes:: *Wisconsin Historical Collection, Vol. XI, p. 199 says she was built at the Navy Island in 1764; Beers says she was built at Fort Erie; Ontario Historical Society, Vol. 33, p. 90 says she was launched in 1763, at Navy Island, in the Niagara River and was armed with eight guns; H. R. Howland, "Navy Island and the First Successors to the Griffon", Buffalo Historical Society Publications, Vol. 6, (1903), p. 30, 31: agrees with the Ontario Historical Society;
**The vessel attacked was the Schooner, Huron, not the Gladwyn, as she was at Fort Erie on this date.
Last noted in 1770, sailing Lake Erie armed with eight guns;
7/30,1778, she was reported as totally decayed;
Appears as "Gladwin" in some of the documents examined;
Macpherson list her built in 1764 at Navy Island, armed with eight guns; Last noted in 1770;
Sources:: 1. Wisconsin Historical Collection, Vol. XI, p. 199;
2. Burton Historical Collection, Vol. I., p. 340;
3. John Poole's notes;
4. J. H. Beers, History of the Great Lakes, Vol. I, p. 119;
5. H. R. Howland, ""Navy Island and the First Successors to the Griffon"", Buffalo Historical Society Publications, Vol. 6, (1903),
p.30, 31;
6. 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;

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