Wisconsin Maritime Museum

Saranac (Schooner, 1861)

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
Saranac
Year of Build:
1861
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
Cleveland, Ohio
Vessel Type:
Schooner
Hull Materials:
Wood
Bow Type:
Plain Head
Builder Name:
Quayle & Martin
Ownership Notes:
Harmon, R. H., (1861-1864); Cunningham, (1864-1866); Shaw, (1864-1866); Nyren, (1864); Purden, (1865);
Master(s):
Gale, Charles, (1864-1876); Wright, W., (1865):
Power
Number of Masts:
2 (1861)
Hull Dimensions
1861
Length: 137.55' Width/Beam: 26.03' Depth: 11.78'
Tonnage
1861
Gross: 393 + 55/95
1864
Enrollments/Registration
July 11, 1861
   Port: Cleveland Number: 59 of 1861
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: New Vessel
Next document: Buffalo 6-27-1864

Next document: (Vessel sold to Foreigners)
History
Classification:
a. Schooner, Saranac (1861- )
Nationality:
American (1861-1864); Unknown (1864- )
Chronology:
1. 5/00/1863, at the head of Lake Erie, ashore and released, $380 loss;
7/15/1864, Left Detroit for Liverpool, (441 tons copper, 300 ;pieces of cedar, 57 bales of Flax); 11/20/1864, returned across the Atlantic in 22 days; Arrived Buffalo from Liverpool, (30 tons pig iron, 121 crates, 112, 000 lbs. rice, crockery, 12 bbl. beer, 12 bbl. Brown Stout, 6 tons bleaching powder, a number of steins); 2/14/1865, Capt. W. Wright, arrived with a crew and officers from Liverpool, England, to take command of Bark Thermutis & Schooner Sarnac at Toledo where they wintered; 4/12/1865, both vessels took on a ground tier of staves to support the copper at the Detroit &* Milwaukee, Railroad dock; 5/4/1865, arrived Bruce Mines; 5/8/1865, left Bruce Mines for Liverpool, (456 net tons of copper, 8, 000 staves, 4, 000 ft. lumber); 5/12/1865 arrived at Welland Canal; bark Thermutis left Detroit, 48 hours ahead of Schooner , Saranac; 5/12/1865, Schooner, struck a warehouse, carried away her jib boom and repaired at Kingston; 5/15/1865, Schooner, Saranac passed Bark, Thermutis at St. Catharines about midnight; arrived 5/19/1865 at Kingston; 5/31/1865, left Quebec 6 days in advance of Bark, Thermutis, 9 days gain since Detroit; both Bark, Thermutis (on 7/5/1865) and Schooner, Saranac (on 7/7/1865), arrived at Liverpool; After encountering heavy storm; 7/10/1866, passed Detroit headed for Bruce Mines; 8/19/1866, arrived from Bruce Mines at Detroit on direct voyage to Liverpool, (459 tons iron ore, staves, hickory poles & spokes); She will return next year;
Notes
General notes:
Charles Gale has made several voyages to Europe with Lake vessels;
Cunningham, Shaw & Company, are London Brokers;
Nyren & Purden are Liverpool, owners, went out of business running boats from Liverpool to the Lakes;
She was fore & aft rigged in 1864;
1866, she was converted into a bow rigged top sail Schooner; She was painted black in 1866;
Sources:
1. Master Abstracts: Cleveland, Ohio;
2. Enrollment: Cleveland, Ohio;
3. John Poole's notes;
4. Marine Casualties on the Great Lakes, (1863-1873), Record Group 26, Records of the United States Coast Guard:
5. Detroit Advertiser and Tribune: 7/18/1864, 11/20/1864, 11/30/1864, 2/15/1865, 4/7/1865, 4/12/1865, 4/13/1865,
5/4/1865, 5/11/1865, 5/17/1865, 5/24/1865, 6/12/1865, 7/26/1865, 8/23/1865;
6. Detroit Free Press: 7/3/1861, 7/5/1866, 7/11/1866, 8/21/1866;
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