1864                                       Dean Richmond                               1893

Wooden Great Lakes package freight vessel

Built at Cleveland OH by Quayle & Martin
Launched

1 deck, coal-fired boilers, vertical direct acting engine,

Enrolled at Cleveland OH April 29, 1864 (#33)
238.80 x 34.95 x 13.52, 1083 44/95 tons     to:
N. C. 9/16 and H. J. Winslow 7/16, Cleveland OH (home port Cleveland OH)

Home port to Buffalo NY 1864 (18 days later)

Remeasured 1865 under Act of May 6, 1865 (new measuring rules) to 236.8 x 34.95 x 21.1, 1416.42 tons (to 2 decks)     US 6102

Sold 1871 to Union Steamboat Co., Buffalo NY

Burned and sank Oct 29, 1871 in Mud Lake, St. Mary’s River.  Raised and towed to Buffalo NY, where she was rebuilt 1873 by Union Dry Dock Co. and returned to service.
Remeasured to 238.0 x 35.0 x 13.5, 1432.06 tons (1257.23 NT 1882)

Repowered 1874 with two new compound engines

Sold 1886 to R. J. Richardson, Chicago IL

Sold 1889 to J. E. Botsford, Port Huron MI

Foundered Oct 14, 1893 in gale off Dunkirk NY, Lake Erie.  All 18 aboard lost.  Enroute from Toledo OH to Buffalo NY with cargo of package freight, mostly flour.  Enrollment surrendered Nov 15, 1893.

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