by William Lafferty » July 19, 2012, 5:14 pm
This is the same Winnebago described by the Port Huron Daily Times. She was launched 21 March 1903 for the parties listed in the article, principles of the Iroquois Transportation Co. and managed by Prindiville out of Chicago, first registered 25 July 1903 at Michigan City. Columbia IWs laid her down on speculation. She did not last long. In January 1907 she was sold to the Coast Shipping Co., San Francisco, for the Pacific Northwest lumber trade, and left her lay-up at Duluth to make the voyage through the old Welland and St. Lawrence canals to the coast and around the horn to the other coast. Two other steam barges were sold with her, the Minnie E. Kelton and and Lucy Neff. The spring of the following year she was rebuilt as a typical Pacific Northwest lumber hooker, with all accommodations aft and oversized masts and derricks. On a voyage from Puget Sound to San Pedro the Winnebago foundered, 31 July 1909, off Point Arena. The Neff was lost 15 December 1915 off Fenwick Island, Delaware, and the Kelton was lost twice, first, stranding on Yaquina Head, Oregon, on 2 May 1908 with the loss of eleven, and, second, on 21 October 1914 stranding on Clatsop Split, Oregon. She had been converted to a barge after the first stranding, and had been repowered in 1912.
As to the location, my initial thought was the iron works at East Jordan, but I can't place that caisson-like structure off the vessel's starboard, so I'm unsure.
This is the same [i]Winnebago[/i] described by the Port Huron [i]Daily Times[/i]. She was launched 21 March 1903 for the parties listed in the article, principles of the Iroquois Transportation Co. and managed by Prindiville out of Chicago, first registered 25 July 1903 at Michigan City. Columbia IWs laid her down on speculation. She did not last long. In January 1907 she was sold to the Coast Shipping Co., San Francisco, for the Pacific Northwest lumber trade, and left her lay-up at Duluth to make the voyage through the old Welland and St. Lawrence canals to the coast and around the horn to the other coast. Two other steam barges were sold with her, the [i]Minnie E. Kelton[/i] and and [i]Lucy Neff[/i]. The spring of the following year she was rebuilt as a typical Pacific Northwest lumber hooker, with all accommodations aft and oversized masts and derricks. On a voyage from Puget Sound to San Pedro the [i]Winnebago[/i] foundered, 31 July 1909, off Point Arena. The [i]Neff[/i] was lost 15 December 1915 off Fenwick Island, Delaware, and the [i]Kelton[/i] was lost twice, first, stranding on Yaquina Head, Oregon, on 2 May 1908 with the loss of eleven, and, second, on 21 October 1914 stranding on Clatsop Split, Oregon. She had been converted to a barge after the first stranding, and had been repowered in 1912.
As to the location, my initial thought was the iron works at East Jordan, but I can't place that caisson-like structure off the vessel's starboard, so I'm unsure.