Originally built by the Detroit Dry Dock Company for the J. Emory Owen Transportation Co, the freighter was launched (US 76731) in 16 May 1888. With a screw propulsion and three sails the ship was 256.4' long 38.5' beam and had a hold depth of 19.8'. Gross tonnage was 1739.53 and capacity was 2700 tons.
It burned near Manitowoc, WI on Lake Michigan on 5 Dec 1903.
Rebuilt as a steam-barge, it's dimensions changed only in it's depth which was now 15.8' and gross tonnage, down to 1264. Renamed the F.A. Meyer, it was purchased by William H. Strong and John J. Madden in 1905. The listed owner was William H. Strong Transportation Co.
In June of 1906 the Meyer struck the steamer Ruth while in the Buffalo dock. In August of that year it carried a record load of 1,500,000 board feet of lumber from Duluth to Tonawanda.
On 18 Dec 1909 the FA Meyer was sunk by ice. The ship had been sold in the interim and was owned by Adam Hartman at the time it sank. Bound from Boyne City, Michigan to Buffalo, New York the crew was rescued by the propeller MAPLETON. Attempts were made to raise the ship through 1910, when it was finally abandoned.
Great Lakes Maritime Database
Maritime History of the Great Lakes - The J. Emory Owen (images 1) (images 2)
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