Also known as:

PERIWINKLE

Year of Build:

1864

Official Number:

150329

Built at:

Buffalo, NY

Vessel Type:

Naval Vessel

Hull Materials:

Wood

Number of Decks:

2

Builder Name:

H. Whitaker

Original Owner and Location:

U.S. Revenue Cutter Service, Washington, D.C.

Propulsion:

Screw

Engine Type:

High Pressure (including HPNC)

# Cylinders:

2

# Propellers:

2

Propulsion Notes:

Side propellers, or "Hunter wheels". Locomotive type engines by Fletcher, Harrison & Co., New York.

Length:

162.5'

Beam:

25'

Depth:

10'

Tonnage (gross):

412.67

Tonnage (net):

267

Final Location:

A. Gilmore Shipyard, Toledo, OH.
Lake Erie.

Date:

30 Jun 1897

How:

Burned to waters edge.

1864 - 1884 Revenue Cutter, 4 guns & 37 crew, stationed at Erie, PA.

1884 Owned H.H. Baker, Buffalo & Lake Erie Excursion Co.

1885, Apr 8 Rebuilt as conventional single-screw excursion boat.

1889, Sep 21 Stranded, Horseshoe Reef near Buffalo, NY.

1891 Tied up at Erie Basin, Buffalo; out of service.

1892, Aug 6 Offered for sale.

1895 Owned Patrick O'Day, Buffalo.

1895, Jul Owned Captain G.P. Felcher, Saginaw, MI; excursion vessel.

1897, Jun 30 Burned.

1900 Contract let to raise wreck.

From the Collection of:

C. Patrick Labadie

Sources:

Edward J. Dowling Collection, University of Detroit - Mercy

C. Patrick Labadie

William MacDonald Collection, Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Detroit

Newspaper Clippings

Steamboat Era in the Muskokas by Richard Tatley

Peter J. VanderLinden