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She was lost in a collision with the steamer Forest Queen, on Lake Huron, in 1856, with the loss of twelve lives. The two remaining steamers built by the Turners also had calamitous ends. The sidewheeler North Star (1854) burned at Cleveland in February, 1852, and the propeller Sebastopol was lost in a storm on Lake Michigan in the same year that she was built, 1855, with the loss of seven lives. In 1862 Alvin Turner started a shipyard at Trenton, Michigan. Samuel Turner built the schooner Jessie and tug Ella Burrows in Cleveland in 1863, but his activities after this are not known. The second firm to begin building ships in Cleveland in 1842 was G. W. Jones & Company, of Black River. Messrs. Jones of Black River have established a shipment (sic.) in Cleveland. G. W. Jones already moved and commenced operations here. F. N. Jones will locate here as soon as the vessels in the stocks at Black River are afloat.41 By the time George Washington Jones arrived in Cleveland, he had already supervised the building of steamers at Conneaut, Fairport, and Black River.42 George was the third son of the famous Black River shipbuilder, Augustus Jones. He was born in Connecticut in 1812 and accompanied his uncle, Enoch Murdock, to Black River at the age of ten. When they came to the frozen Hudson River, they sold their ox-team and purchased a sleigh, rigged her with a sail, and successfully crossed the river. The remainder of the journey was made by horse and wagon and after a two-month trip, they joined Augustus in Black River.43 It was his father's intention that George should become a farmer, but, when a traveling draftsman passed by, George gave him the little money available - plus a new pair of boots - to learn the skill of drafting. Thus he was taken into the family business. George's first shipyard in Cleveland was located on the west side of the Cuyahoga River, just north of the old Main Street Bridge. The first vessel built at this yard was the brig Ann Winslow, launched on April 2, 1842. The next year the Joneses (all of the brothers, at one time or another, joined forces - see the section on Lorain in this chapter) to launch the propeller Emigrant on April 22, 1843. Seth Johnson did the joiner work on her. In 1844, Jones started construction on the first steam boat in the country to measure over one thousand tons, which was two hundred tons larger than any other steamer in the world. Here was the finest craft yet built on the lakes! She had a keel length of 254 feet, "and would have been 32