C.B. Benson

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dc.contributor.author Unknown en_US
dc.coverage.spatial Great Lakes en_US
dc.coverage.temporal ca. 1873 -- 1893 en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2008-09-23T10:11:06Z
dc.date.available 2008-09-23T10:11:06Z
dc.date.created n.d. en_US
dc.date.issued 2008-09-23T10:11:06Z
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/2374.BGSU/1559
dc.description The C.B. BENSON was built in 1873 by John Duff at Port Clinton, OH U.S. The C.B. Benson is a wood hulled schooner with 3 masts, a length of 136 feet, and a width of 26 feet. It displaces 298 tons, and has a load capacity of 283 tons. It entered service in the year 1873 under the ownership of A. Andrews of Toledo, OH U.S. The vessel was removed from service with the following notation: Foundered in eighty feet of water, Gravelly Bay, Ontario, Lake Erie, on October 15, 1893, with all hands; seven lives lost. Vessel was bound from Erie, PA, for Detroit, MI, with cargo of coal. The photograph shows the C.B. Benson under way on the Great Lakes. More information about this vessel is available at the <a href="http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/page39984.html">HCGL Website</a> en_US
dc.language en_US en_US
dc.relation.ispartof HCGL Main Photograph Collection en_US
dc.rights World en_US
dc.rights.uri http://www.bgsu.edu/colleges/library/cac/page41430.html en_US
dc.subject.lcsh ships -- great lakes -- n. america en_US
dc.subject.lcsh ships -- great lakes -- Ohio en_US
dc.title C.B. Benson en_US
dc.type 6 x 3 Black & White Print en_US
dc.contributor.repository Historic Collections of the Great Lakes en_US
dc.contributor.repository Historical Collections of the Great Lakes / Center for Archival Collections en_US
dc.publisher.digital Historical Collections of the Great Lakes en_US
dc.date.digitized 03/08/2000 en_US
dc.equipment.digitizing HP Scanjet 6200C en_US
dc.relation.hasformat Photographic Print en_US
dc.contributor.institution Bowling Green State University en_US

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