Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Michigan

Description
Creator
Stanton, Samuel Ward, Attributed name
Media Type
Image
Item Type
Prints
Description
Sketch and notes on the MICHIGAN
Notes
Illustration from Stanton, Samuel Ward, American Steam Vessels,1895, page 41
Inscriptions

MICHIGAN

Built 1833, at Detroit, Mich.

Hull, by F. Church, 156 feet in length, from stem to stern; 29 feet beam, 11 feet 2 inches depth of hold. 472 73/95 tons.

Two beam engines, of 80 horse power each, built by Silas Battell, of Buffalo, N.Y.

The MICHIGAN was owned by the Lake Michigan Steamboat Company, and ran mainly between Buffalo & Detroit. She also made a number of trips each season from Buffalo to Chicago and Milwaukee. The two engines of the Michigan were afterward taken out and one was placed in the R. R. ELLIOTT and the other in the CITY OF SANDUSKY, both lake steamboats.

Publisher
Smith & Stanton
Place of Publication
New York
Date of Original
1895
Date Of Event
1833
Subject(s)
Steamboats
Michigan (Steamboat)
Local identifier
401
Language of Item
English
Geographic Coverage
  • Lake Erie
    Ontario, Canada
    Latitude: 42.454166 Longitude: -81.121388
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Michigan


Sketch and notes on the MICHIGAN