Arcturus
ARCTURUS (1853, Schooner)
Year of Build: 1853 Official Number: 568 Construction and Ownership Built at: Huron, OH Vessel Type: Schooner Hull Materials: Wood Number of Decks: 1 Builder Name: F.D. Ketchum Original Owner and Location: Oliver Bugbee et al, Buffalo, NY Power Number of Masts: 2 Dimensions Length: 139' Beam: 28.2' Depth: 11.2' Tonnage (old style): 412 46/95 Final Disposition Final Location: 20 miles north of Point Aux Barques. Lake Huron. Date: 19 Aug 1888 How: Sank. Final Cargo: Sand. Notes: In tow of tug BRADY, sprang leak & sank. History One of largest schooners on lakes. 1853, Sep St. Clair River, struck bar, damaged rigging; threw locomotive overboard on Lake Huron on same voyage in gale. 1854-58 Enrolled Buffalo, NY. 1854, Dec Collided with propeller MAYFLOWER, repaired Port Huron. 1859 Large repairs. 1860 Owned B.B. Jones, Milwaukee, WI. 1862 Large repairs. 1865 Large repairs, readmeasured 300.59 gross/291.52 net tons. 1866 Owned C.H. Wheeler, Milwaukee, WI. 1873 Owners Cheyne, et al, Milwaukee, WI; repaired. 1876 Repaired. 1879 Not insurable. 1881 Repaired, made barge. 1881, Mar Sold to J.M. Jones by Capt. J.G. Cheyne & W.A. Nowell. 1884 Owned P. Boylan, Cleveland, OH. 1887, Jun 23 Owned Adolph A. Pinet, 139.5 x 28.4 x 10.9; 300 gross tons; enrolled Port Huron, MI. 1888, Aug Sank on Lake Huron. 1890, Nov 20 Enrollment surrendered Port Huron, MI; "wrecked, total loss". Notes From the Collection of: C. Patrick Labadie |