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      Final Date: 1835; 1835 Reported wrecked at Buffalo.; Final Location: Buffalo, NY piers. Lake Erie., Wrecked.; Landed on top of pier; total loss.

      Other Names: NIAGARA;SOVEREIGN; Final Date: 1859; Dimensions (LBD): 128' x 24' ; 1825 Capsized near Prescott, ONT, St. Lawrence River. 1826 Wreck raised by Capt. Mosier, rebuilt, converted into steamer, Prescott, ONT; 400 old tons; renamed NIAGARA. 1826, Aug Machinery damaged; repaired. 1826, Nov Struck rock off Poplar Point, ONT. …

     

     

      Structurally weak; difficult to keep dry; hard to keep on course; grounded on numerous occasions. 1880, Dec 13 Auctioned off.

      1820 Wrecked.

     

      Final Date: Dec 1826; 1825, Feb Pushed ashore by ice near Niagard; heavily damaged. 1826, Dec Wrecked in storm, Lake Ontario.; Final Location: Mainland North of Nicholson Island, ONT. Lake Ontario., Wrecked.; Bound Oswego for York, driven ashore & wrecked in storm. 1873 Part of keel made into rocking chair.

     

     

      Other Names: Perseverance (1833); Toronto; Approx. 87x19x8 Owned by J. A. Wilkes, Toronto 1825; J. G. Parker, Kingston 1833. Launched 23/04/25. Built on "Mr. Annesley's improved plan": bow and astern same shape, had no ribs. Hull made of several layers of thin boards alternately lengthwise and abeam, with oiled paper …

      The Steam Boat Queenston met with an accident while lying at the Wharf here on Saturday last. In raising the steam, before proceeding to Niagara, the Boiler was partially burst. The accident was not attended with any serious consequences. The Queenston was delayed until the following Thursday in ...

      Photograph coloured with water colour

      Lithograph printed in brown with grey and beige tint stones on wove paper

      127x22x9 Owned by H. Richardson, Toronto. Built by Jos. Dennis, River Rouge (just east of Toronto) and launched 08/04/26. Engines (2) 36x120 by Ward Bros., Montreal. Used York (Toronto) to Niagara except Niagara-Hamilton 1835. Crossing time from Toronto on first trip (07/08/26) "only" 4 hr. 9 min. Rescued passengers from …

      We left York last Wednesday week, (on our way to Montreal,) in the Queenston steam-boat; and having made enquiry into the cause of her detention at York the week before, we learnt that part of the knee of the boiler gave way, an accident which was fully repaired in a …

      Water colour, pen & ink over blue pencil with ruled border of pen & ink, pencil, and grey wash. Laid down on cardboard mount

      Aquatint, etching and water colour on wove paper

 Walter Lewis, FreshWater, Autumn 1986, 26-29    

 New York Spectator (New York, NY), 19 Jul 1825     CANADIAN LINE OF STEAMBOATS, ON LAKE ONTARIO FRONTENAC, AND QUEENSTON. The FRONTENAC, Captain MCKENSIE [sic], will leave Niagara every Saturday afternoon for Kingston--and leave Kingston for York and Niagara, every Wednesday afternoon. The QUEENSTON, ...