Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2016 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Norway OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: C-72583 DATE OF LOSS: 1919 CAUSE OF LOSS: Abandoned or scrapped LOCATION: ? RIG TYPE: Schooner, 3 mast HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: H. Roney, Garden Isl., Ont., - 1873 OWNER(S): Kaine & Bird Transportation Co., Quebec MASTER: - TONNAGE: 360 gt DIMENSIONS: 135 x 25.9 x 12 CASUALTIES: - July 1874 - Capsized on Lake Huron in a squall. Righted and towed into Port Huron. Sept 1875 - Ashore at Point au Pelee, Lake Erie. Nov 1880 - Dismasted and water-logged near the False Ducks, Lake Ontario. Capt. Wm. O'Brien and crew of 7 lost. Owned by Messrs. Calvin & Son. Carrying timber. No insurance. Sept 1883 - Ran ashore off Port Colbourne and was expected to be a total loss. Carrying timber. Floated and repaired. Cut down to a schooner-barge, towed by the steambarge D. D. CALVIN, by 1885. Apr 1903 - Collision with propeller BRITON at Algonac. Towed to Port Huron. ======================================================================== Sources: Kingston (Ont.) Daily News, 8 July 1874 Daily British Whig (Kingston), 17 September 1875 Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, 11 November 1880 Marine Record, 13 March 1884 R. L. Polk Marine Directory - 1888 Inland Lloyds Vessel Register - 1890, 1907