BROCKWAY, GEORGE E. (1867, Tug (Towboat))

Year of Build:

1867

Official Number:

10666

Built at:

Port Huron, MI

Vessel Type:

Tug (Towboat)

Hull Materials:

Wood

Number of Decks:

1

Builder Name:

F.C. Leighton

Original Owner and Location:

James Meffat & John Botsford, Port Huron, MI

Propulsion:

Screw

Engine Type:

High Pressure (including HPNC)

# Cylinders:

1

# Boilers:

1

# Propellers:

1

Propulsion Notes:

27" x 30", 440hp @ 85rpm engine, Cuyahoga Furnace Co., Cleveland, 1867.

Length:

112.4'

Beam:

20.8'

Depth:

10.2'

Tonnage (gross):

164

Date:

1911

How:

Abandoned.

One of large Detroit & St. Clair River tugs taking sailing vessels Lake Huron - Lake Erie.

1867, Jun 8 Enrolled Port Huron, MI.

1868 Repaired & outfitted for wrecking operations out of Port Huron.

1870, Nov 25 Ashore on Canadian shore near Port Huron.

1871, Mar Rebuilt; housed in for rafting.

1871, Apr Aground at St. Clair flats.

1871, Jul Collision with JOHN MARTIN at Pt. aux Pelee, ONT; repaired at Fitzgerald & Leighton yard, Port Huron.

1873 Owned G.E. Brockway, Port Huron.

1879 Owned Moore et al, Detroit, MI.

1881, Jun 16 Owned Ludington Lumber Co.; used in towing lumber scows Ludington - Chicago.

1882 Reboilered; 9.5 x 16' firebox boiler, M.Riter, Buffalo.

1883, Oct Laid up.

1889, Mar 22 Owned C.D. Thompson, Port Huron.

1906 Owned Great Lakes Towing Co., Cleveland, OH.

1910 Rebuilt.

1911 Abandoned.

From the Collection of:

C. Patrick Labadie

Sources:

Board of Lake Underwriters Marine Directory

Donald V. Baut

Dossin Great Lakes Museum

Enrollments, U.S. National Archives

Great Lakes Register

H. G. Runge Collection, Milwaukee Public Library

John E. Poole notes, Bowling Green State University

Lorne Joyce

Loudon G. Wilson

Lytle List

Newspaper Clippings

Peter J. VanderLinden

William MacDonald Collection, Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Detroit