Antelope underway
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History | |
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United States | |
Name | Antelope |
Owner | L.S. Bowtell, Bay City, Michigan (in 1861) |
Launched | 1861 |
Fate | Sank 1897 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Steamship (1861–1880s), schooner barge (1880s–1897) |
Tonnage | 523.45 gross register tons |
Length | 186.8 ft (56.9 m) |
Beam | 32 to 34 ft (9.8 to 10.4 m) (sources disagree) |
Depth of hold | 12 ft (3.7 m) |
Propulsion | Steam engine (1861–1880s), sails (1880s–1897) |
Sail plan | Schooner rig, 3 masts (from 1880s) |
Antelope was a Great Lakes steamship that later was converted into a schooner barge) and sank in Lake Superior near the Apostle Islands in 1897.[1]