Wisconsin Maritime Museum

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
Passport
Also known as:
Caspian
Year of Build:
1846
Rebuilt:
1. 1906;
2. 1921;
Official Number:
112142
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
Kingston, Ontario
Vessel Type:
Steamer
Additional vessel types:
Barge
Hull Materials:
Iron
Bow Type:
Scroll Head
Builder Name:
Willaim McCauseland (Kingston Marine Railway), Fowler & Hood
Ownership Notes:
Hamilton, John, (1851-1869); Canadian Inland Navigation Company, (1861-1864); Prentif, Douglas, (1865); Hamilton, Clark, (1865); Campbell, Alexander, (1865); Canadian Navigation Company, (1874); Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Company, (1902); Lake Ontario & Bay of Quinte Steamboat Company,(1902); Canadian Steamship Lines, Ltd.,(1919):
Master(s):
Harbottle, (1851-1857);
Power
Number of Masts:
0 (1846)
Hull Dimensions
1846
Length: 177.6' Width/Beam: 43.4' Depth: 6.7'
1906
Length: 171.7' Width/Beam: 25' Depth: 10'
`1921
Length: 178' Width/Beam: 43'
Tonnage
1846
Gross: 347 Registered: 184
1906
Gross: 957 Registered: 543
1921
Gross: 1,034 Registered: 593
Enrollments/Registration

Next document: Kingston 3-1-1851
March 1, 1851
   Port: Kingston Number: 94 of 1851
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
History
Classification:
a. Steamer, Passport (1846-1898);
b. Steamer, Caspian (1898- 1921);
c. Barge, Caspian (1921-1929)
Nationality:
Canada (1846-1929)
Chronology:
1. 00/00/1849, St. Lawrence River, steam escaped from a boiler, 44 passengers scalded, (14 lives lost),
2. 8/00/1863, Lake Ontario, lost a man overboard;
3. 9/00/1863, St. Lawrence River, struck a rock and repaired, $15, 700 loss;
4, 11/00/1863, Kingston Harbor, Lake Ontario, struck a rock and repaired, $7, 500 loss;
5. 7/00/1886, Cornwall Canal, sank;
Notes
General notes:
Engine room was 59.8';
She was valued at 12,000 pounds, in 1854; $32,000, 1857; $30,000, (1864);
She had the wood work renewed and new boilers in 1859;
She was broken up in 1929;
1869, her bottom was planked over the iron, producing one of the first composite hulls on the Great Lakes; The iron came from the "Clyde";
Sources:
1. Enrollment: Kingston, Ontario;
2. Vessel Register: (1854-1864);
3. John M. Mills, Canadian Coastal and Inland Steam Vessels, 1809-1930;
4. Marine Casualties on the Great Lakes, (1863-1873), Record Group 26, Records of the United States Coast Guard:
5. Canadian Lake Vessel Register: 1869, 1873, 1874;
6. Wright's Master Sheet;
7. John Poole's notes;
Contact
Contact
Wisconsin Maritime Museum
Email:[email protected]
Website:
https://www.wisconsinmaritime.org/

Agency street/mail address:
75 Maritime Dr.
Manitowoc, WI,54220
920-684-0218




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