Wisconsin Maritime Museum

Verona (Schooner, 1873)

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
Verona
Year of Build:
1873
Major repairs:
1879, 1882, 1891;*
Rebuilt:
1. 1898;
Official Number:
25874
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
Cleveland, Ohio
Vessel Type:
Schooner
Hull Materials:
Wood
Bow Type:
Plain Head
Builder Name:
Quayle and Murphy
Ownership Notes:
Cleveland Transportation Company, (1873-1898); Hanna, M., (1873); Hanna, R., (1875); Chapin,, G. W., (1881); Wrich, W. F., (1883); Bartlett, W. R., (1884); Orient Transit Line, (1888-1891); Sanders, A., C., (1889); Gilchrist, J. C., (1891-1897); Gilchrist, A., (1894-1897); Lake Shore Transit Company, (1897-1901); Gilchrist Transportation Company, (1901-1905);
Master(s):
Mills, B., (1873); Mills, G. B., (1875-1881); Goodsell, William, (1883-1884); Miles, James E., (1889); Farwell, J. W.., (1891);
Power
Number of Masts:
3 (1873)
Hull Dimensions
1873
Length: 189.6' Width/Beam: 34.1' Depth: 13.5'
Tonnage
1873
Gross: 728.39 Net: 691.97
1898
Enrollments/Registration
May 28, 1873
   Port: Cleveland Number: 105 of 1873
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: New Vessel
Next document: Cleveland 5-14-1875
May 14, 1875
   Port: Cleveland Number: 91 of 1875
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Error in Enrollment
Next document: Cleveland 4-28-1881
April 26, 1881
   Port: Cleveland Number: 68 of 1881
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Managing Owner
Next document: Cleveland 4-28-1883
April 28, 1883
   Port: Cleveland Number: 53 of 1883
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Managing Owner
Next document: Cleveland 4-18-1884
April 18, 1884
   Port: Cleveland Number: 59 of 1884
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Managing Owner
Next document: Cleveland 3-11-1889
March 11, 1889
   Port: Cleveland Number: 38 of 1889
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Sandusky 4-25-1891
April 25, 1891
   Port: Sandusky Number: 14 of 1891
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Sandusky 3-28-1894
March 28, 1894
   Port: Sandusky Number: 35 of 1894
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Sandusky 3-26-1897
March 26, 1897
   Port: Sandusky Number: 31 of 1897
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Ogdensburg 10-14-1898
October 14, 1898
   Port: Ogdensburg
Document Type: Temporary Enrollment
Reason: Tonnage Changed
Next document: Sandusky 6-23-1899
June 23, 1899
   Port: Sandusky Number: 64 of 1899
Document Type: Temporary Registration
Reason: PE Surrendered
Next document: Portland Maine 7-23-1901
July 23, 1901
   Port: Portland Maine Number: 2 of 1901
Document Type: Registration
Reason: Arrived at Home Port
Next document: Cleveland 4-21-1903
April 21, 1903
   Port: Cleveland Number: 143 of 1903
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Cleveland 3-31-1905

Next document: (Vessel Lost)
History
Classification:
a. Schooner, Verona (1873-1905)
Nationality:
American (1873- 1905)
Chronology:
1. 8/00/1873, Presque Isle, Lake Huron, ashore and released, (ore);
2. 7/18/1890, Ashtabula, collision, (Cambria), ashore and released, (ore);
3. 9/2/1904, Toledo, Lake Erie, burned and went ashore when Mitchell and Rowland Lumber Company Yard caught fire; She
was beached by the Spring freshet in the Maumee River, Toledo, Ohio in the winter of (1903-1904); she was finally abandoned, $12, 000 loss;
Notes
General notes:
*She got new spars and outfit in 1879; a new deck in 1882; new steel plates and had her bottom calked in 1891;
She was valued at $45,000, in 1873; $23,000, in 1879; $28,000, in 1888; $15,000, in 1897;
She went to the Coast (Sea), in 1898 and returned from the Coast at Cleveland, Ohio, on 7/18/1901;
Sources:
1. Master Abstracts: Cleveland, Ohio; Ogdensburg, New York; Sandusky, Ohio;
2. Enrollment: Cleveland, Ohio; Ogdensburg, New York; Sandusky, Ohio;
3. John Poole's notes;
4. Vessel Register: (1873-1898);
5. Wright's Master Sheet;
6. U.S. Merchant Vessels: (1873-1905);
Contact
Contact
Wisconsin Maritime Museum
Email:[email protected]
Website:
https://www.wisconsinmaritime.org/

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75 Maritime Dr.
Manitowoc, WI,54220
920-684-0218




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