The schooner Frontenac (1854)
General
Port of Picton Registry, Number 5 :
| Name: FRONTENAC | Type: Schooner |
| Official Number: | Tons: 158 |
| Where Built: Amherst Island | Where she belongs: Picton |
| Build Year: 1854 | Value: |
| Builders name & date of certificate: David Tait, Oct. 5, 1862 | |
| Master’s Name: John Knight | |
| Length: 115feet | Breadth: 19 feet & 5/10ths. |
| Depth of Hold: 7 feet | Masts: Two |
| Stern: Square | Bowsprit: square [sic] |
| How Built: Carvel | How Rigged: Fore & Aft |
| Figure-head: None | Decks: One |
| Subscribing Owners: John Knight & Geo. Martin both of Marysburg and Mariners, joint owners. | |
NOTATIONS:
WRECKED SINCE LAST REPORT
Registers signature & date : 1874
Registers signature & date : 1874
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SchoonerFrontenac |
See also the entry for the schooner Frontenac in our ships Database.
- Sold to William Jeffery of Toronto dated May Ist.1865
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1860 Owned J. D. Morton, Kingston, ONT.
1863, Oct 15 Owned Robert & William, Hethington, Port Union, ONT.
1864 Onwed J. D. Morton, Kingston.
1865, May 1 Owned William Jeffery, Toronto.
1865, Sep 30 Wrecked Port Burwell, Lake Erie; owned J. D. Morton, Kingston.
- Final disposition, Port Burwell, Lake Erie, Ontario, 30 September 1865; struck a pier and broke up. Final cargo: lumber.
Newspaper transcriptions
- Daily News (Kingston, ON), May 9, 1854 : Launch - By a letter from a friend on Amherst Island, we learn that a splendid schooner of nearly 200 tons, built in Mr. Tait's ship yard there for James Morton, Esq., of this city, was launched on the 4th inst., at 5 p.m., in the presence of a large concourse of spectators. The new vessel was duly named the Frontenac. Another schooner is on the stocks in Mr. Tait's yard for Mr. Morton. These vessels are to be employed in the lumber trade.
- Daily British Whig (Kingston, ON), 10 May 1854 : Launch - of schooner Frontenac by Tait at Amherst Island for Morton; also has another on stocks for Mr. Morton.
- Detroit Free Press, October 5, 1865 : We learn from our Port Burwell correspondent that on the 30th last the schr. FRONTENAC was attempting to enter that harbor she struck east of that pier, stove in her bows and went to pieces shortly therafter. She was bound for Toronto with a cargo of lumber. There was no insurance on hull or cargo.
References and source notes
(1, 4) Ken Chrichton from registry entries
(2) Naval Marine Archive, Willis Metcalfe fonds
(3) C. Patrick Labadie, Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library
(5-7) Maritime History of the Great Lakes (Walter Lewis)