Northeast Michigan Oral History and Historic Photograph Archive

MAPLE LEAF (1867, Schooner)

Description


Identification
Vessel name:
MAPLE LEAF
Also known as:
HONORA CARR
Year of Build:
1867
Official Number:
73914
Construction and Ownership
Built at:
Picton, ONT
Vessel Type:
Schooner
Number of Decks:
1
Builder Name:
Redmond & Tait
Hull Dimensions
Length:
91.7'
Beam:
21.6'
Depth:
7.7'
Tonnage (gross):
135
Final Disposition
Final Location:
Port Abino, 14 miles above Buffalo, NY. Lake Erie
Date:
4 Sep 1886
How:
Foundered.
Final Cargo:
200 tons coal.
Notes:
Bound Buffalo, NY - Port Huron, MI, foundered in storm, one life lost. 1889, Apr 9 Wreck found.
History
Chronology:

1867, Dec 31 Owned Curry, Striker & Wellbanks.

1868, Apr 4 Owned Curry, Striker & Hudgins.

1868, Apr 4 Owned Hudgins & Monck, Owen Sound, ONT.

1868, Jun 5 Owned Hudgins & Sutherland.

1868, Oct 20 Owned James Sutherland.

1877, Oct 16 Aground Fitzwilliam Island, Georgian Bay, bark laden for Detroit.

1879 Owned Sutherland, Picton, ONT.

1880, Apr 13 Owned David Foster, Port Burwell, ONT.

1880, Jul 18 Sunk & raised, Port Colborne, ONT, Lake Erie.

1881, Sep Sunk & raised, Lake Erie.

1882, Mar 13 Owned Ozias Barrett, Port Rowan, ONT.

1882, Dec 1 Ashore & released, Port Rowan.

1883, Oct 13 Owned H.A. Haskins.

1883, Nov 16 Ashore & released, Buffalo, NY, harbor entrance, Lake Erie.

1884 141 gross tons; owned E. Burge, Picton.

1885, Jun 22 Enrolled Buffalo, NY; owned Peter Carr, 95.6 x 21.6 x 7.4', 112.94 / 107.3 tons; renamed HONORA CARR, US 95851.

1885, Nov 2 Ashore & released, Rondeau, ONT.

1886, Aug 28 Owned H. Carr

1886, Sep 4 Sunk.

Notes
From the Collection of:
C. Patrick Labadie
Contact
Contact
Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library
Email:specialcollections@alpenalibrary.org
Website:
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Alpena, Michigan 49707
USA
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