: Gerald C. Metzler Great Lakes Vessel Database

Description

Identification

Construction and Ownership

Built at:: Buffalo, New York
Vessel Type:: Tug (Towboat)
Hull Materials:: Wood
Bow Type:: Plain Head
Builder Name:: H. J. Williams
Ownership Notes:: Wood, W. H., (1865); Powers, William E., (1865); Campbell, W. P., (1866); Mills, A., (1871-1876); Hayes, R., (1877); Hemenway, Charles M., (1877); Martin, C. R., (1880); Prize, C. H., (1881);
Master(s):: Van camp, J., (1865); Rouse, J. M., (1865); Mills, A. H., (1866); Kennedy, (1865); Mills, W., (1872); King, N. W., (1874); Carey, J., (1876); Byons, T. W., (1877); Johnston, W. W., (1880-1882);

Power

Hull Dimensions

Tonnage

Enrollments/Registration

May 6, 1865: Port: Buffalo Number: 128 of 1865
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: New Vessel
Next document: Detroit 8-5-1865
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August 5, 1865: Port: Detroit Number: 255 of 1865
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Detroit 5-31-1866
May 31, 1866: Port: Detroit Number: 147 of 1866
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Detroit 8-1-1872
August 1, 1872: Port: Detroit Number: 24 of 1872
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Detroit 4-17-1876
April 17, 1876: Port: Detroit Number: 43 of 1876
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Cleveland 5-8-1877
May 8, 1877: Port: Cleveland Number: 62 of 1877
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Cleveland 9-2-1880
September 2, 1880: Port: Cleveland Number: 19 of 1880
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Owner
Next document: Cleveland 9-29-1881
September 29, 1881: Port: Cleveland Number: 23 of 1881
Document Type: Enrollment
Reason: Changed Managing Owner
Next document: Cleveland 6-30-1884; Next document: Vessel Abaandoned)

History

Classification:: a. Propeller (Tug), Urania (1865-1884)
Nationality:: American (1865-1884)
Chronology:: 1. 7/00/1866, Detroit River, broke her cylinder head and repaired;
2. 3/00/1881, Fairport, swept out of harbor in a flood and towed back to port;
3. 7/00/1874, Sandwich Point, collision, (Tug, Ransom), sank;

Notes

General notes:: Machinery taken out and she was abandoned in 1884;
Sources:: 1. Master Abstracts: Buffalo, New York; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan;
2. Enrollment: Buffalo, New York; Cleveland, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan;
3. Merchant Steam Vessels of the United States, 1790-1868; (The Lytle-Holdcamper List);
4. Marine Casualties on the Great Lakes, (1863-1873), Record Group 26, Records of the United States Coast Guard:

Contact

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