Northeast Michigan Oral History and Historic Photograph Archive

FORESTER, L. B. (1886, Scow Schooner)

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
FORESTER, L. B.
Year of Build:
1886
Official Number:
48558
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
Port Huron, MI
Vessel Type:
Scow Schooner
Hull Materials:
Wood
Number of Decks:
1
Builder Name:
Edmund Young
Original Owner and Location:
L. B. Forester et al, Port Huron, MI.
Ownership Notes:
F. Field, Port Huron.
Hull Dimensions
Length:
51.5'
Beam:
15'
Depth:
3.9'
Tonnage (gross):
21.46
Tonnage (net):
20.39
Final Disposition
Date:
1909
How:
Abandoned.
Notes:
Out of registry; presumed abandoned.
History
Chronology:

1888, Aug 15 Owned William McCulloch, Port Huron, MI.

1900 Owned William Spooner, South Haven, MI.

1901 Owned Jane L. Randall, South Haven.

1904 Owned F. Allen Cady, South Haven.

1905, Jun Owned Lincoln Donalds; sunk mouth of river near Saugatuck; repaired there.

1905, Dec Arrived Saugatuck in tow of GREEN DEVIL with cargo wood.

1909, Jan 29 Henry Perkins attempted to raise this vessel.

1909 Out of registry.

Notes
From the Collection of:
C. Patrick Labadie
Sources:
Beesons Marine Directory
Great Lakes Register
Inland Lloyds’ Marine Directory
Newspaper Clippings
Marine Directory, R. L. Polk Co., Detroit
Lorne Joyce
Peter J. VanderLinden
Contact
Contact
Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library
Email:specialcollections@alpenalibrary.org
Website:
Agency street/mail address:
211 N. First Ave.
Alpena, Michigan 49707
USA
(989)356-6188
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