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Alice Stafford
package steamer
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Wooden steamboat built in 1882 at Benton
Harbor by J.H. Randall for Graham and Morton Trans. Co. Built as
the Lora or Laura.
Renamed Alice Stafford, 1897; Manistee,
1905.
Owners:
Manistee
Transit Co.
Farrisey &
Marron
W.M. Kellie
Muskegon
Trans. Co
Nessen
Transportation Co.
Chicago,
Racine & Milwaukee Line
Northern
Michigan Transportation Co.
J.H. Graham
John Marron
F.W. Wheeler
& Co.
Wm. E.
Fitzgerald
E.W. Seymour
Crosby Transportation Co.
Captains:
Simon
Lamereaux
H. Bennett
Frank
Richardson
W.E.
Stufflebeam
George Johnson.
On June 28, 1914, she burned at Grand
Rapids, Mich.
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Hennepin
package steamer
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Ann Arbor RR
leased winter of 1899
Original -
George H. Dyer - propeller - name changed April 2, 1898
U. S. No.
86016, 1,372 tons gross, 1,086 tons net, Built at Milwaukee, Wis,
in 1888, Home ported at Milwaukee, Wis., 208.8 x 35.1 x 21.6
feet, 300 indicated horsepower
Burned May 27, 1901 while enroute from
Buffalo, New York to Gladstone, Michigan
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City of Marquette
package steamer
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built: 1890 at Manitowoc, Wis. 341 gross
tons, sold Feb. 16, 1893.
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Osceola
package steamer
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built: 1882 at Bay City, Mich., 193' long,
34' beam, 980 gross tons. Owned by
the Delaware and Lackawana system, leased to the Toledo, Ann Arbor
and North Michigan.
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(Steamer
Lawrence 1868-1920), Frontenac,H. N. JEX
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Capt.
Ed Williams will have command of the Steamer Lawrence, one of the
boats commissioned in the A. A. Ry. Service.
Type
at loss : schooner, wood, 2-mast
Build info : 1868-1921 , D.
Merrill, Milwaukee
Specs : 120 ft, 284 ton
Date of loss :
Apr 10, 1850
Place of loss : Straits of Mackinac, 1 mi W of St.
Helena Island. Lake Michigan
Type of loss : ice
Loss of life
: none
Carrying : 11,0000 bu. wheat
Detail : Bound Milwaukee
for Buffalo, she was cut by ice and sank in 48 feet of water. Out
of Milwaukee, she
was a loss of $17,500.
Raised
renamed FRONTENAC, then renamed H.N. JEX, then foundered in Lake
Ontario, not recovered.
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