Wisconsin Maritime Museum

Howell Hoppock (Schooner, 1862)

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
Howell Hoppock
Also known as:
Etowah
Year of Build:
1862
Rebuilt:
1. 1863;
Official Number:
47620
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
Cleveland, Ohio
Vessel Type:
Schooner
Additional vessel types:
Bark
Hull Materials:
Wood
Bow Type:
Plain Head
Builder Name:
Quayle and Masters*
Ownership Notes:
Burgess, S., (1862-1864); Burgess, L. F., (1864); Cunningham Shaw and Company, (1864);
Master(s):
Tucker, ED., (1862-1863); Wright, (1864); Wolf, (1866); Patterson, (1869); Campbell, W. F., (1869);
Power
Number of Masts:
2 (1862)
Hull Dimensions
1862
Length: 137.96' Width/Beam: 26.09' Depth: 12.15'
Tonnage
1862
Gross: 408 + 45/95
1863
Gross: 321
Enrollments/Registration
April 15, 1862
   Port: Cleveland Number: 25 of 1862
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: New Vessel
Next document: Cleveland 7-1-1863

Next document: (Sold to Foreigners)
History
Classification:
a. Schooner, Howel Hoppock (1862-1863);
b. Bark, Etowah (1863-1886)
Nationality:
American (1862-1863)); Canadian (1863-1886)
Chronology:

1. 5/00/1863, Chicago, collision and repaired, $350 loss;

Notes
General notes:
*1864 vessel register gives the builders as Quayle & Martin;
She was in the Liverpool to Great Lakes trade by the late 1860's; She was last registered in Liverpool, England, in 1886;
1863
Cleared Detroit, Michigan, on 8/16/1863, headed for Liverpool, England; 3/26/1864, she returned from Liverpool and was at Holyhead loading cargo for New York;
1864
4/22/1864, took on an American pilot coming back from Liverpool, England, and encountered a gale. Lost her foremast and was blown back out to sea again but finally reached New York, N.Y.; 9/4/1864 she arrived at Hamilton from Liverpool, England; Cleared Hamilton on 9/7/1864 headed for Cleveland, Ohio and Detroit, Michigan; 10/15/1864, cleared for Liverpool, England with a cargo of coper ore from the Wellington Mines of Lake Huron; Arrived at Kingston, Ontario on.10/241864. Cleared Liverpool about 9/15//1865 headed for Detroit, Michigan; Arrived Detroit on 8/12/1866 from Liverpool, England via Cleveland, Ohio;
1867, the Etowah laid up for the winter at Cleveland, Ohio; Sailed for Liverpool from Cleveland, Ohio on 9/30/1868; Arrived at Liverpool on 11/26/1858; She was loading cargo for Toronto and Cleveland on 3/16/1869; Arrived Cleveland, Ohio, on 6/7/1869, after having made the voyage from Liverpool in 53 days; Cleared Cleveland, Ohio, on 6/16/1869, headed for Liverpool, England; Captain Patterson was replaced by Captain Campbell at the Welland Canal who took her across the ocean; Arrived Liverpool on 7/29/1869 having made the trip in 43 days;
Sources:
1. Master Abstracts: Cleveland, Ohio;
2. Enrollment: Cleveland, Ohio;
3. Marine Casualties on the Great Lakes, (1863-1873), Record Group 26, Records of the United States Coast Guard:
4. Wright's Master Sheet;
5. Register of the Shipping of the Lakes and River St. Lawrence, 1864, by Robert Thomas;
6. Detroit Advertiser and Tribune: 12/28/1863, 3/26/1864, 4/22/1864, 4/26/1864, 9/8/1864; 9/21/1864, 10/17/1864,
10/28/1864, 4/7/1865, 10/3/1865;
7. Detroit Free Press: 7/5/1866, 8/14/1866, 11/16/1867, 10/1/1868, 5/8/1869, 6/10/1869, 6/21/1869, 8/2/1869, 11/27/1869;
8. Cleveland Herald: 12/17/1868;
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