Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2015 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Pontiac OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: - DATE OF LOSS: 14 May 1864 REASON: Explosion LOCATION: Lake Michigan, Grand Haven RIG TYPE: Sidewheel steamer HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: at Grand Rapids, MI., 1853 OWNER(S): Capt. John B. Parks, Grand Haven MASTER: (same) TONNAGE: 68 t. DIMENSIONS: 124 x 17 x 3 CASUALTIES: 3 SURVIVORS: ? Built to transport goods and passengers up and down the Grand River with commerce ending at Grand Haven. Destroyed by boiler explosion at Grand Haven May 14, 1864, with loss of three lives. ======================================================================== Sources: Marine Record - 8 April 1886 Mansfield "History of the Great Lakes," - 1899. p. 701 The Federal Cases, Book 6 - 1894, p. 1194 Baxter "History of Grand Rapids," 1891 , p. 519 Gaines "Encyclopedia of Civil War Shipwrecks," 2008, p. 81 Chrysler "The Story of Grand River," 1975, p. 16 Lydens "The Story of Grand Rapids," 1966, p. 112