Michigan 1 (wooden)

1873                                  Michigan     1                                     1893

Wooden sidewheel crossriver railroad carferry

Built at Sandwich East ON by Jenkins
Launched Dec 20, 1873

1 deck, coal-fired boilers,  2 low pressure horizontal engines, 1360 IHP

Enrolled at
265.0 x 38.4 x 14.2, 1465 GT, 1344 NT     Can      to:             
Great Western Railway,

Entered service Feb 1874

Retired from service 1883.  Engines and part of cabins moved to new str. Lansdowne.

Hull sold 1886 to F. W. Gilchrist, Alpena MI and converted to schooner barge

Enrolled U. S.      US 91847     271.7 x 41.8 x 15.6, 1290.65 GT, 1227.83 NT

Sold 1892 to E. D. Cummings, Chicago IL

Sold 1893 to J. C. Gilchrist, Vermillion OH

Foundered Sept 21, 1893  41 miles north of Point Sable, Lake Superior.  Crew rescued by str. City of Naples.  Enrollment surrendered Nov 17, 1893.

 

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