Also known as:

ASP

Year of Build:

1808

Built at:

Mississauga, ONT

Vessel Type:

Schooner

Hull Materials:

Wood

Number of Decks:

1

Number of Masts:

2

Tonnage (old style):

70

Final Location:

Near Salmon River.
Lake Ontario.

Date:

11 Oct 1820

How:

Capsized & driven ashore.

Final Cargo:

Passengers, wooden staves.

Notes:

Loss of 9 lives, 2 survivors.

Origionally armed British schooner.

1812 Captured by Americans; became U.S. naval vessel.

1813 Renamed ASP.

1815 Sold to private parties, owned at Niagara.

1819, Nov Aground Buffalo, Lake Erie.

1820 Ran Buffalo - Sault.

1820 Wrecked.

From the Collection of:

C. Patrick Labadie

Sources:

Donald V. Baut

John E. Poole notes, Bowling Green State University

Steamboat Era in the Muskokas by Richard Tatley