1899  Drawing of the passenger steamboat EMPIRE Illustration from J. B. Mansfield, ed., History of the Great Lakes. Volume I, Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1899. "Passenger Steamboat Empire. Built at Cleveland, O., in 1844. First steamboat in the United States to measure over 1,000 tons, and when she...

  1895  Sketch of the steamboat EMPIRE Illustration from Stanton, Samuel Ward, American Steam Vessels ,1895, page 74 Great Lake Passenger Steamboat EMPIRE, 1844

  c1844  Woodcut engraving of the steamboat EMPIRE. Some evidence suggests that this was published in a contemporary Detroit newspaper. "Steamboat EMPIRE, 1844, Capt. D. Howe"

  1846  District of Cuyahoga list

  1849  new owner, &c.

  1852  vessel sale

  1859  arrival

  1862  rebuilt sail ?

  1862  rebuilding as Barque ?

  1844  launch, Cleveland

  1862  to be rebuilt into barge

  1849  engine, boiler parts sale

  1862  vessel sale

  1849  line and officers for sea

  1846  strengthened and improved

  1853  Reason: aground Lives: nil Remarks: Got off

  1848  Reason: sunk

  1849  Reason: aground Hull damage: $3,000 Remarks: Got off

  1849  Reason: aground Hull damage: $800 Remarks: Got off

  1851  Reason: collision Lives: nil Remarks: Damaged

  1851  Reason: broke machinery Remarks: Repaired

  1851  Reason: threw over live cargo Lives: nil Hull damage: $20,000 Cargo: included Freight: hogs & freight Remarks: Damaged

  1847  Reason: aground Lives: nil Remarks: Got off

  1849  Reason: disabled Hull damage: $1,500 Remarks: Repaired

  1854  Reason: aground Lives: nil Remarks: Got off

  1855  Reason: aground Lives: nil Remarks: Raised

  1905  Reason: collision Lives: nil Remarks: Uninjured ?

  1895,   Sketch and notes on the steamboat EMPIRE Illustration from Stanton, Samuel Ward, American Steam Vessels ,1895, page 75 EMPIRE Built 1844, at Cleveland, O. HULL, of wood, constructed by Capt. George W. Jones. Length on water line 251 feet; over all 260 feet. ENGINE, inclined Low Pressure,...

  "Steamboat combination," Milwaukee Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI), 28 Apr 1846, p. 2