Winona (Bark, 1863)

Description

Identification

Construction and Ownership

Built at:: East Saginaw, Michigan
Vessel Type:: Bark
Hull Materials:: Wood
Bow Type:: Plain Head
Builder Name:: S. R. Kirby
Ownership Notes:: Mott, C. B., (1863); Bentley, J. R., (1863); Hoyt, Jesse, (1863); Clark, Charles, (1863); Blyben, W., (1863); Hutchinson, J. T., (1866); Goit, O. W., (1866-1867); Mowry, A. B., (1866); Goit, O., (1870); Roach, M., (1872);
Master(s):: Blyben, William, (1863-1866); Blyteer, W., (1867); Gibbs, J., (1870); Finegan, (1872);

Power

Hull Dimensions

Tonnage

Enrollments/Registration

September 15, 1863: Port: Detroit Number: 179 of 1863
Document Type: Temporary Enrollment
Reason: New Vessel
Next document: Buffalo 10-8-1863
October 8, 1863: Port: Buffalo Number: 185 of 1863
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Arrived at Home Port
Next document: Buffalo 9-30-1865
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September 10, 1865: Port: Buffalo Number: 364 of 1865
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Remeasured (Readmeasured)
Next document: Chicago 10-9-1866
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October 9, 1866: Port: Chicago Number: 112 of 1866
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Chicago 10-22-1867
October 22, 1867: Port: Chicago Number: 110 of 1867
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Erie 11-7-1870
November 7, 1870: Port: Erie Number: 4 of 1870
Document Type: Temporary Registration
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Chicago 11-26-1870
November 26, 1870: Port: Chicago Number: 61 of 1870
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Arrived at Home Port
Next document: Chicago 9-4-1872
September 4, 1872: Port: Chicago Number: 50 of 1872
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Chicago 8-19-1878; Next document: (Bound Foreign)

History

Classification:: a. Bark, Winona (1863- )*
Nationality:: American (1863-1878); Unknown (1878- )
Chronology:: 1. 10/00/1869, damaged her outfit in a gale on Lake Erie, and refitted;
2. 11/00/1869, Straits of Mackinaw, damaged by collision and repaired, $3, 800 loss;
3. 9/18/1871, Plum Island, Deaths Door, ashore and released;
4. 5/00/1874, damaged her outfit at Chicago, repaired, $100 loss;
5. 6/00/1874, Lake Michigan, collision, (Schooner, H. Wells), repaired, 300 loss;

Notes

General notes:: Her first enrollment has her name as Winona, not Wenona;
She was launched from Hoyt's shipyard in 1863;
She went to the Ocean headed for Europe, in June of 1878;
Sources:: 1. Master Abstracts: Buffalo, New York; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; Erie, Pennsylvania;
2. Enrollments: Buffalo, New York; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; Erie, Pennsylvania;
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. Captain J. W. Hall, Marine Disasters on the Western Lakes during 1869:
6. U.S. Merchant Vessels: (1868-1881);
7. Chicago Inter Ocean: 12/25/1874:

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