Champlain (Steamboat), wrecked, 1 May 1840

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The steamer CHAMPLAIN
There was

Gale on lake

The ADELAIDE,

NEW STEAM

The Steamboat

CHAMPLAIN

NOTE :- A Great

The Chicago

has gone ashore 4 miles south of St. Joseph high and dry. She is broke amidship. Several trunks belonging to passengers were lost overboard. The gale was blowing strong on Sunday night from the North-East; the time when the CHAMPLAIN went ashore. The schooner MINERVA SMITH was boxing about during the gale, she lost nearly all her deck load and put into St. Joseph in distress. She arrived this morning in port bringing the Captain and crew of the CHAMPLAIN. a blow on the Eastern shore of the lake last Friday in which the GOV. MASON went ashore at the mouth of the Muskegon River, a total wreck. ---- Daily American. Buffalo Commercial Advertiser May 13, 1840 . . . . . Michigan.--They had a severe gale on Lake Michigan on the 3rd.inst. The Chicago American says it is supposed that the Steamboat CHAMPLAIN had been driven ashore near St. Joseph, as she was seen near there when the gale came on.--LATER The American of the 6th. says the Steamboat CHAMPLAIN is ashore four miles south of St. Joseph, high and dry, and broke amidships. Several trunks belonging to passengers lost overboard. (part) Cleveland Daily Herald Wednesday, May 13, 1840 p.3 col.1 . . . . . afterwards called the ECLIPSE, ran during the season of 1837. In the fall of that year she was seized at Detroit for a violation of the revenue laws, and her name was changed to CHAMPLAIN. She was afterwards wrecked at New Buffalo, in 1840. Built Chippewa 1830 of 230 Tons.. "Trade And Commerce" Buffalo Commercial Advertiser March 26, 1847 . . . . . BOAT -- " QUEEN ADELAIDE " built by Robert Hamilton, Esq ., and other gentlemen, to ply between Chippewa and Amherstburg, on the British coast of Lake Erie, was launched on Saturday last, and will commence her regular trips very shortly. Kingston Chronicle June 23, 1832 . . . . . The CHAMPLAIN -- The well known Steamboat ECLIPSE, has been very generally overhauled and refitted the past winter, and comes out this season a neat, good conditioned craft, bearing the name of CHAMPLAIN. Cleveland Daily Herald & Gazette Tuesday, April 10, 1838 . . . . . CHAMPLAIN has been seized by the collector of the Port of Detroit. Cleveland Daily Herald & Gazette Thursday, December 13, 1838 . . . . . Steamer, built Chippewa, Ont. 1830 as ADELAIDE, changed name to ECLIPSE 1837c. Wrecked Lake Michigan 1847. Prelm. List of Canadian Merchant Vessels . . . . . Deal of difference regarding the end of the CHAMPLAIN exists. The"Lytle-Holdcamper"List gives it as Abandoned in 1841 . . . . . VESSELS WRECKED ON LAKE MICHIGAN. Journal gives the following statement, showing the number of vessels lost on Lake Michigan; their value, and the value of their cargoes when known; and the number of lives lost, from 1824 to 1847. Schooner LAWRENCE, 1824. $3,000 Schooner RED JACKET, 1826. 2,000 (here follows an interval of 7 years during which vessels must have been lost; but the record is not found.) Schooner ERIE PACKET, Dec. 1833 1,500 Schooner PRINCE EUGENE, Oct. 1834 27,000 Steamboat NEWBURYPORT, Oct. 1834 15,000 Steamboat PIONEER, Aug. 1834 10,000 Schooner name forgotten, 1835 2,000 Green Bay. Schooner UTICA, 1835 7,000 Schooner CHANCE, Nov. 1835 7 lives 2,000 Schooner BRIDGET, Nov. 1835 16 lives 5,000 Schooner SLOAN, Nov. 1835 6 lives 3,000 Steamboat DELAWARE, Apr. 1835 20,000 Sloop CLARISSA, Nov. 1836 1,500 Schooner CHICAGO, Oct. 1836 8,000 Schooner AUSTERLITZ, Oct. 1836 12,000 vessel and goods Schooner OHIO, Oct. 1837 6,000 Schooner LaPORTE, Oct. 1838 3,000 Schooner THOS. RICHMOND, Oct. 1838 6,000 Schooner LaFAYETTE, Oct. 1838 3,000 Schooner WHITE PIGEON, Nov. 1839 3,000 Brig JOHN KENZIE, Nov. 1839 3,000 Steamboat DETROIT, Aug. 1839 20,000 Schooner VIRGINIA, Nov. 1839 7,000 wheat Steamboat TAYLOR, Oct. 1840 8,000 * Steamboat CHAMPLAIN, May 1840 10,000 Schooner NEPTUNE, Nov. 1840 24 lives 15,000 goods Schooner CINCINNATI Oct. 1840 1,500 Schooner JEFFERSON Apr. 1840 1,800 Schooner HURON Oct. 1840 2,000 Schooner POST BOY Oct. 1841 13 lives 1,000 goods Sloop SPITFIRE Oct. 1841 500 Schooner ONEIDA Nov. 1841 20,000 wheat Schooner BANCROFT Nov. 1842 4,000 Ship MILWAUKEE Nov. 1842 9 lives 10,000 Ship FLORIDA, Nov. 1842 4,000 Brig COLUMBUS, Nov. 1842 12,000 wheat Brig HUMMINGBIRD. May 1843 6 lives 1,000 Schooner HARRIET, May 1843 8 lives 2,500 Schooner MINERVA SMITH, May 1844 1,000 Schooner WAVE, March 1844 5 lives 1,000 Schooner VICTORY, March 1844 7 lives 2,000 Schooner WHITNEY, Aug. 1844 6 lives 2,000 Ship SUPERIOR, Sept. 1845 5,000 Schooner JACOB BARKER, Nov. 1845 2,000 Brig OLIVER, Nov. 1845 2,000 Schooner OCEAN, Apr. 1845 6 lives 1,000 Schooner SAVANNAH, Apr. 1845 5,000 Schooner JEFFERSON, Apr. 1845 4,500 Brig INDIANA, Oct. 1845 4,000 Schooner SWIFT, Oct. 1845 600 Brig ROSA, Oct. 1845 8,000 Schooner MARGARET HELM Nov. 1845 1,500 Steamboat BOSTON, Nov. 1846 70,000 Sloop JAMES K. POLK Nov. 1846 1,000 Schooner ----?---- Nov. 1846 4,000 Sloop RODOLPH, Nov. 1846 4 lives 400 Schooner St. JOSEPH, Apr. 1847 1,000 Schooner SOLOMON JUNEAU Apr. 1847 4,000 Schooner MARY ELIZABETH Apr. 1847 2,000 Schooner WISCONSIN, Apr. 1847 1,500 Schooner OUTWARD BOUND Oct. 1847 2,000 Schooner ILLINOIS, Nov. 1847 5,000 Green Bay Propeller PHOENIX Nov. 1847 164 lives 80,000 Schooner CHAMPION Nov. 1847 15,000 Schooner E.G. WOOLCOTT, Nov. 1847 10,000 Schooner H. MERRILL, Nov. 1847 10,000 Total Value $512,000 Total number of lives lost 288 Buffalo Republic Wednesday, February 9, 1848 . . . . .

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