A very special Thanks to Richard Palmer who provided these 2 wonderful excel spreadsheets.
The first spreadsheet has an extensive list of all the vessels built in Sodus Point and a great deal of collected data for each vessel. The second part of the same sheet contains information on Excursion Steamers (propeller driven) used at Sodus Point.
Here is the spreadsheet:
Vessels Built at Sodus Point
Gross
| Name | Registration | Type | Masts | Year Built | Builder | Length | Beam | Depth | Tonnage | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A.A. Cornwall | Schooner | 2 | 1855 | Henry Doviel | 148 | Wrecked, | ||||
| Oct. 25, 1865, | ||||||||||
| East Sister Island, | ||||||||||
| Lake Erie | ||||||||||
| Aurora Borealis | Schooner | 2 | 1843 | Henry Doviel | 75' | 9'4" | 7'4" | 94 | ||
| Australia | Schooner | 2 | 1853 | David Rogers | ||||||
| B.R. Lummis | 2240 | Schooner | 2 | 1856 | David Rogers | 110' | 24' | 9'9" | 158 | Launched |
| Sept. 11, 1856 | ||||||||||
| Lost, Lake Michigan | ||||||||||
| August, 1872 | ||||||||||
| Benjamin Franklin | 2381 | Schooner | 2 | 1857 | DeForest McNett | 105'5" | 21'1" | 8'5" | 147 | Lost, Nov. 5, 1877, |
| near Port Clinton, Ohio | ||||||||||
| Billow | Schooner | 2 | 1843 | |||||||
| Charger | 5490 | Schooner | 2 | 1868 | David Rogers | 136' | 25' | 10' | 264 | Wrecked, July 31, 1890 |
| Point Pelee Passage, | ||||||||||
| mouth of Detroit River | ||||||||||
| Colonel A. B. Williams | Schooner | 2 | 1856 | David Rogers | 110' | 24' | 10' | 240 | Foundered, Lake Huron, | |
| June 5, 1864 | ||||||||||
| Ella Jane | 8166 | Sloop | 1 | 1880 | 5 | |||||
| Free Trader | Schooner | 2 | 1849 | David Rogers | 65' | 13'7" | 6' | 46 | Lost, Lake Michigan, | |
| 1869 | ||||||||||
| Frontier | Schooner | 2 | 1842 | 95' | 19'9" | 9' | 155 | Ashore, Dec. 5, 1850, | ||
| Lake Erie, near | ||||||||||
| Niagara River. | ||||||||||
| Gazelle | 10164 | Schooner | 2 | 1847 | Henry Doviel | 75'9" | 18'10" | 7'4" | 93 | Sank, 1865, Kingston |
| General Brown | Schooner | 2 | 1816 | Jonathan Deming | 69'6" | 15' | 4'1" | 81 | ||
| Grace Sherwood | 10793 | Schooner | 2 | 1866 | J. Hill | 73 | Foundered, Oct. 8, 1875, | |||
| Port Burwell, Lake Erie | ||||||||||
| Grey Eagle | Schooner | 2 | 1856 | Henry Doviel | 82'8" | 17'2" | 6'8 1/2" | 64 | Built on bottom of | |
| schooner "R.F. Wilson" | ||||||||||
| Gipsey | Scow | 2 | 1859 | Henry Doviel | 47'4" | 13'8" | 5'4" | 22 | Built on bottom of | |
| schooner "Isaac Walton" | ||||||||||
| H.A. Cornwall | Schooner | 2 | 1856 | Henry Doviel | 94' | 21'6" | 8'1' | 148 | Rebuilt 1i64 | |
| H.C. LeRoy | 98601 | Steamer | 1892 | DeForest McNett | 60'8" | 17'6" | 5'1" | 78 | Abandoned 1910, Sodus Point | |
| H.W. Converse | 11503 | Schooner | 2 | 1863 | Henry Featherly | 81' | 17' | 6' | 48 | Built at "West Huron"; destroyed |
| July 4, 1876, Oswego | ||||||||||
| Henry Doviel | Schooner | 2 | 1844 | |||||||
| Horace Greeley | Schooner | 2 | 1857 | Owen Cook | 85' | 17'1" | 6'3" | 84 | ||
| Hunter | Schooner | 2 | 1816 | 61'6" | 20' | 5'6" | 59 | |||
| Isabel | Schooner | 2 | 1849 | Henry Doviel | 80' | 17'5" | 6'9" | 88 | ||
| Island Packet | Schooner | 2 | 1810 | Captured and burned at | ||||||
| Brockville, Ont., St. | ||||||||||
| Lawrence River, June 29, 1812 | ||||||||||
| J.J. Morley | 75642 | Tug | 1872 | DeForest McNett | 63' | 12' | 9' | 30 | ||
| James Catchpole | 12754 | Schooner | 2 | 1857 | Henry Doviel | 98'6" | 20'5" | 8'4" | 173 | |
| Jane E. Rogers | Schooner | 2 | David Rogers | 75 | ||||||
| Josephine | Schooner | 2 | 1837 | 110'6" | 20' | 7'5" | 110 | Renamed "Comet," 1860; | ||
| Wrecked May 15, 1861 | ||||||||||
| off Main Duck Island, | ||||||||||
| Lake Ontario | ||||||||||
| Schooner | 2 | 1860 | David Rogers | 79'8" | 19'4" | 6'7" | 108 | |||
| Mary | Schooner | 2 | 1816 | 60'2" | 18'7" | 5'8" | 57 | |||
| Mary | Schooner | 2 | 1841 | 46'2" | 13'5" | 4'10 | 20 | |||
| Mary Ann | Schooner | 2 | 1816 | Jonaathan Deming | 64' | 16' | 6'6" | 67 | ||
| Mary Patterson | Schooner | 2 | 1861 | Raynor | 41'4" | 8'6" | 4'2" | 16 | ||
| Mary Ward | Schooner | 2 | 1859 | Jasper W. Cook | 44'3" | 9'8" | 4'4" | 16 | ||
| Mediterranean | 17029 | Schooner | 2 | 1849 | David Rogers | 123' | 25' | 10' | 297 | Wrecked, Oct., 1891 |
| Lake Michigan | ||||||||||
| Polly | 202440 | Sloop | 1 | 1902 | 45'8" | 14'5" | 4' | 16 | ||
| Polly Hopkins | 150399 | Schooner | 1 | 1887 | James H. Hopkins | 39'5" | 12' | 2'5" | 7 | Scrapped 1902 |
| Sodus | 115758 | Schooner | 2 | 1880 | 55'5" | 16'8" | 5'3" | 32 | ||
| Star | Schooner | 2 | 1843 | 47' | 12'6" | 4'9" | 25 | |||
| W.S. Turner | Steam yacht | 1873 | 48' | 6' | 2' | 12 | Sold Canada, 1881 | |||
| Wanderer | 26239 | Schooner | 2 | 1861 | Henry Doviel | 84 | Foundered, Dec. 10, 1874 | |||
| Long Point, Lake Erie | ||||||||||
| Wayne | Schooner | 2 | 1848 | Henry Doviel | 56 | |||||
| William Hunter | Schooner | 2 | 1863 | Henry Doviel | 93'6" | 23'2" | 8'9" | 169 | ||
| Wolcott | Schooner | 2 | 1816 | 58'6" | 17'6" | 6' | 53 | Built at Loomisville | ||
| Excursion Steamers Used at Sodus Point | ||||||||||
| (Propellers) | ||||||||||
| Gross | ||||||||||
| Name | Registry No. | Where Built | Year Built | Builder | Length | Width | Depth | Tonnage | Notes | |
| Algona | 105927 | Buffalo | 1883 | 86' | 18' | 5' | 77 | Built by Notter, | ||
| Renamed "Royaume" 1920 | ||||||||||
| Scrapped 1922 | ||||||||||
| Charles West | 126115 | Saugatuck, Mich | 1883 | 95' | 11' | 6' | 92 | Built by James Elliot, | ||
| Renamed "Wau-kon," | ||||||||||
| Buffalo | Burned, Tonawanda, May | |||||||||
| 17, 1919 | ||||||||||
| Cornelia | 126018 | Buffalo | 1882 | 62' | 11' | 8' | 38 | Harbor tug | ||
| Genesee | 145332 | Buffalo | 1883 | 26' | 10' | 4' | 17 | Renamed "Spencer Meade," | ||
| 1885 | ||||||||||
| Glenn | 86045 | South Haven, Mich. | 1889 | 108'6" | 21'8" | 8'4" | 203 | Abandoned, 1927 | ||
| Near Route 104, | ||||||||||
| Sodus, burned and covered | ||||||||||
| H.C. LeRoy | ||||||||||
| Ideal | 100381 | Buffalo | 1885 | 60' | 11' | 5' | 40 | Steam yacht | ||
| J.D. Scott | Rochester | 1876 | 87' | 17' | 5' | 87 | Steam yacht | |||
| Lizzie | 140262 | Buffalo | 1877 | 56' | 11' | 4' | 25 | Steam yacht | ||
| Oclemena | 155182 | Buffalo | 1890 | 93' | 18' | 4' | 149 | Steam yacht | ||
| Oneida | 19363 | Buffalo | 1872 | Carroll Brothers | 55' | 14' | 6' | 22 | Tug, owned by Wayne | |
| County Mining Co. | ||||||||||
| Lost, Detroit, Oct. 6, 1906 | ||||||||||
| Seneca Chief | 116583 | Rochester | 1893 | 51' | 10 ' | 4' | 24 | Burned, Oct. 16, 1904 | ||
| at Wilson, N.Y. | ||||||||||
| Sunbeam | 116205 | Buffalo | 1888 | 64' | 13' | 6' | 52 | Steam yacht | ||
| Willie Poucher | Steam yacht | |||||||||
The second spreadsheet contains a list of both sail and steam vessels built at Pultneyville.
Here is the spreadsheet:
| Name | Type | Masts | Year Built | Builder | Length | Beam | Depth | Tonnage | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alfred Allen | US#1360 | Schooner | 2 | 1862 | 114'4" | 21'9" | 8'9" | 160 | |||
| Caroline | Schooner | 2 | 1814 | Russell Cole | 30 | ||||||
| Catherine | Schooner | 2 | 1814 | Russell Cole | 30 | Wrecked Nov. 11, 1820 near Pultneyville | |||||
| Challenge | Schooner | 2 | 1852 | Horatio N. Throop | 150 | ||||||
| Commerce | Schooner | 2 | 1814 | George D. Phelps | 54' | 16' | 5' | 30 | |||
| Dolphin | Schooner | 2 | 1814 | Hawley Reed | 15 | ||||||
| Enterprise | Schooner | 2 | 1811 | 20 | Wrecked Canadian shore, Lake Erie, July 9, 1823 | ||||||
| Enterprise | Schooner | 2 | 1829 | 45 | Wrecked 1836 four miles below Sodus Point. All lost except 1. | 1836, 4 miles east of Sodus Point. All hands lost except one | |||||
| Express | Steamboat | 1838 | Horatio N. Throop | 103'6' | 17'5" | 8'2" | 139 | Sidewheel. Scrapped 1850 | |||
| Gazelle | Schooner | 2 | 1850 | Horatio N. Throop | 70 | ||||||
| Glen Cuyler | US#10338 | Schooner | 2 | 1859 | Henry Doviel | 72'5" | 16'2" | 5"1" | 31 | Cut down to barge. Abandoned 1911 | |
| John J. Hill | US#13719 | Schooner | 2 | 1864 | 91' | 14'9" | 6'9" | 90 | Wrecked Fairport, Ohio, June 21, 1885 | ||
| John J. Morely | Schooner | 2 | 1853 | Horatio N. Throop | 143 | Wrecked Nov. 30, 1869, Mohawk Reef, Port Colborne, Lake Erie | |||||
| Laura | Schooner | 2 | 1815 | Russell Whipple | 55'6" | 17'10" | 5'1 | 41 | |||
| Magic | US#91001 | Yacht | 1877 | Horatio N. Throop | 76'4" | 12'5" | 5' | 50 | Burned March 28, 1892, Port Ontario | ||
| Nancy | Schooner | 2 | 1816 | Hawley Reed | 45 | ||||||
| Pearl | Schooner | 2 | Rebuilt 1864 | 78' | 15"5' | 5'5" | 64 | ||||
| Sophia | Schooner | 2 | 1827 | Horatio N. Throop | 25 | Lost off Sodus Point, Aug. 22, 1827 | |||||
| An early 2 masted schooner enrolled at Pultneyville in the early days | |||||||||||
| was called the "Plow Boy." It was built in th town of Sullivan in | |||||||||||
| Madison County, N.Y. in 1815. It was 58 feet long, had a 16'3 beam | |||||||||||
| and 3'6" hold. It was registered at 29 tons. Samuel Ledyard was owner | |||||||||||
| and Hiram Morely, master. | |||||||||||
| The theory is the hull was built at or near what is now Lakeport, launched | |||||||||||
| into Oneida Lake and sailed through the Oneida and Oswego rivers to Oswego; | |||||||||||
| thence up Lake Ontario to Pultneyville. | |||||||||||
Horatio Throop pictured in the photo above was not only a prominent ship builder in Pultneyville, but was a sea captain remembered for transporting fugitive slaves to Canada on board his ships. Photo courtesy Richard Palmer.
