: Gerald C. Metzler Great Lakes Vessel Database

Description

Identification

Construction and Ownership

Tonnage

Enrollments/Registration

May 3, 1866: Port: Oswego Number: 34 of 1866
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Oswego 4-11-1867
April 11, 1867: Port: Oswego Number: 10 of 1867
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Oswego 4-14-1869
April 14, 1869: Port: Oswego Number: 8 of 1869
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Oswego 4-2-1870
April 2, 1870: Port: Oswego Number: 187 of 1870
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner

History

Classification:: a. Schooner, Corsair (1866- )
Nationality:: American (1866- )
Chronology:: 1. 7/00/1869, Milwaukee, damaged by collision and repaired;
2. 11/00/1869, lost mainmast by being run foul of at the Manitous, Lake Michigan and repaired;
3. 9/00/1872, Point au Sauble, Lake Michigan, sank, $53, 000 loss;

Notes

General notes:: Home Port: Oswego, (1869-1878)
Sources:: 1. Captain J. W. Hall, Marine Disasters on the Western Lakes during 1869:
2. Marine Casualties on the Great Lakes, (1863-1873), Record Group 26, Records of the United States Coast Guard:
3. U.S. Merchant Vessels: (1868-1879);
4. Master Abstracts: Oswego, New York;
5. Enrollment: Oswego, New York;
6. John Poole's notes;

Contact

Wisconsin Maritime Museum

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