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City of Grand Haven
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Build in 1872 as a sailing barge in Grand Haven Michigan. Built of wood by Ducan Robertson for Kirby Furlong and Company of Grand Haven, Mi. who had a fleet of 12 barges and two tug boats. She was design for the lumber trade with two mast set far apart to hold more lumber. In 1884 her rigging was changed and she was made into a topsail schooner. In her early years she delivered lumber to Chicago from Grand Haven and Muskegon. In 1889 was sold to Anton Kjelson and Frank Greele was sail from Sheboygan and Milwaukee. Her last season of sailing 1925 pickup lumber from Beavertail Bay and bringing it To Muskegon and Holland. The Michigan Maritime Museum in South Haven Michigan has the recording of three of the crew from 1925 , Ralph Smith, Martin Carlson and Dennis Ward all teenager then. They talk about how all the loading of cargo was done by hand, The danger of being run down by a steam ship, The routine of pumping the water out of the bilges each watch. How the sails were made of heavy canvas. How the head was a old bucket. The City of Grand Haven was one of the last commercial sailing vessel. The last could have been the schooner Our Sons that sank in a gale twenty miles of Sheboygan Sep 26,1930. The City of Grand Haven layed at dock in Holland then to Milwaukee. Sold in 1928 and sailed to Marinette, Wisconsin where she was left to rot disappearing into the mud around 1935.
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