DELAWARE (1878, Package Freighter)

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
DELAWARE
Also known as:
HILL, CHARLES B.
Year of Build:
1878
Official Number:
6961
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
Cleveland, OH
Vessel Type:
Package Freighter
Note: Sisters: JUNITA (1878), CONESTOGA (1878), CONEMAUGH (1880?).
Hull Materials:
Wood
Builder Name:
Quayle & Sons
Original Owner and Location:
Erie & Western Transportation Co., Erie, PA.
Ownership Notes:
Anchor Line.
Power
Propulsion:
Screw
Engine Type:
Steeple Compound
# Cylinders:
2
# Boilers:
1
# Propellers:
1
Propulsion Notes:
24 x 48 x 48" engine, 498hp. 9'7" x 17', 90# steam, tubular boiler.
Hull Dimensions
Length:
252.1'
Beam:
36'
Depth:
16.3'
Tonnage (gross):
1731.70
Tonnage (net):
1526.53
Final Disposition
Final Location:
Beach near North Madison, OH.
Lake Erie.
How:
Stranded in storm.
Final Cargo:
Coal.
Notes:
Bound Buffalo, NY - Fairport, OH with barge COMMODORE in tow; dropped barge in gale & stranded. Broke up following spring.
History
Chronology:

1878 Built Quayle & Sons, Cleveland, OH; ran Buffalo, NY - Chicago, IL.

1881, Jul 12 Ashore Racine Reef, WI, in dense fog.

1887 Steel arches replaced wooden.

1887, Oct 23 Stranded in storm near Hammond Bay, Michigan Straits; jettisoned cargo of bran.

1888 Repaired; one 12 3/4 x 13 2/3' scotch boiler, modernized.

1889, Summer Collided with schooner MICHIGAN at Soo Canal.

1890, Apr 29 Released from flats in Lake George.

1891, Nov Struck CAYUGA near Cheboygan, MI.

1898, Jul 15 Fire in engine room.

1905 Owned Lackawanna Green Bay Line, Detroit, MI.

1906, Sep Sprung leak on Lake Erie, mutinous fireman refused to take any action.

1906, Nov 22 Stranded in storm near North Madison, OH.

Notes
From the Collection of:
C. Patrick Labadie
Sources:
Donald V. Baut
Beesons Marine Directory
Board of Lake Underwriters Marine Directory
Edward J. Dowling Collection, University of Detroit - Mercy
Inland Lloyds’ Marine Directory
Beers, History of the Great Lakes, J. B. Mansfield
Milwaukee Public Library
Newspaper Clippings
Marine Directory, R. L. Polk Co., Detroit
U. S. Merchant Vessels
Contact
Contact us:
Test 4 Walter
 database@wisconsinmaritime.org
 
https://www.wisconsinmaritime.org

 

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DELAWARE (1878, Package Freighter)