George Goble
Oswego NY
Most recent update: May 14, 2016.
George Goble, an immigrant from Kinsale, was a significant builder of Great Lakes schooners from 1856 through 1906. The data for this list were provided by Richard Palmer, a maritime historian specializing in Oswego.
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O/N | Name | Customer | Type | GT | LOA | Built | Notes | |
24149 | Titan | Doolittle, Irwin & Wright | schooner | 361 | 132 | 1856 | driven ashore and lost near Pentwater MI 1869 | |
26562 | William Sanderson | Clemow & Moore | schooner | 385 | 135 | 1856 | lost 1874 near Sleeping Bear Point | |
Bermuda | Thomas S. Mott | schooner | 394 | 136 | 1860 | lost 1870 near Munising MI | ||
26563 | William I. Preston | Carrington & Preston | schooner | 279 | 142 | 1861 | lost 1888 near Wolfe Island | |
10544 | George Goble | George Goble et al. | schooner | 137 | 1862 | lost 1871 near Kettle Point, Lake Huron, rebuilt as M. D. Cameron 1873 | ||
24392 | Thomas Martin | T. Martin and C. Ratcliffe | schooner | 196 | 93 | 1862 | rebuilt from the schooner J. C. Riggs, abandoned 1881 | |
24394 | Thomas S. Mott | David Manwaring | schooner | 431 | 137 | 1862 | lost 1874 near Ludington MI | |
22918 | Senator Blood | Blood, Bond & Ford | schooner | 231 | 127 | 1863 | abandoned 1891 but returned to service, lost 1896 off Goose Island | |
16403 | Montauk | Goble, Lyons & Finney | schooner | 310 | 136 | 1863 | lost 1882 near Pickard's Dock, North Manitou | |
2390 | Bahama | Thomas S. Mott | schooner | 333 | 136 | 1863 | lost 1895 off Alpena MI | |
13302 | James Platt | schooner | 341 | 137 | 1863 | wrecked on South Fox Island 1881 | ||
9456 | Fred D. Wheeler | Morgan M. Wheeler | tugboat | 32 | 60 | 1865 | sank 1890 near Ogdensburg NY | |
14110 | Knight Templar | George Goble | schooner | 290 | 136 | 1865 | lost 1905 near Alpena MI | |
Sardinian | Robert Richardson | schooner | 225 | 104 | 1865 | believed to have been wrecked 1864 at Oswego NY | ||
11502 | Henry FitzHugh | Thomas S. Mott | schooner | 136 | 1866 | registered in Canada 1900, abandoned 1924. | ||
10545 | George C. Finney | Goble, Lyons & Finney | schooner | 301 | 130 | 1866 | lost 1891 off Port Maitland ON | |
19061 | Olive Branch | Thomas S. Mott | schooner | 267 | 138 | 1866 | lost 1875 off Toronto Harbor | |
18319 | Nevada | Morgan M. Wheeler | schooner | 318 | 136 | 1867 | lost 1886 near Ashtabula Harbor | |
13306 | Jamaica | Thomas S. Mott | schooner | 318 | 136 | 1867 | lost 1885 between Evanston and Glencoe IL | |
9727 | Florida | Thomas S. Mott | schooner | 299 | 142 | 1868 | lost 1886 off Whetsone Brook, near Marquette | |
85006 | Guiding Star | Michael J. Cummings | schooner | 324 | 139 | 1869 | wrecked 1883 near Milwaukee WI | |
75157 | John T. Mott | Thomas S. Mott | schooner | 325 | 139 | 1869 | lost c1915 in Georgian Bay, Lake Huron. | |
80115 | West Side | George Goble | schooner | 324 | 138 | 1870 | lost 1906 near Thunder Bay | |
18734 | Nassau | Thomas S. Mott | schooner | 303 | 137 | 1870 | lost 1898 near Bar Point | |
90321 | Madeira | Morgan M. Wheeler | schooner | 322 | 137 | 1871 | lost 1877 near Long Point | |
105155 | Alanson Sumner | Page & Dobbie | tugboat | 300 | 127 | 1872 | converted to steam barge, abandoned 1899 in Port Huron MI | |
6780 | Daniel Lyons | D. Lyons and G. Goble | schooner | 1873 | collision 1878 and lost off Wolf River WI | |||
105269 | Atlanta | Thomas S. Mott | schooner | 318 | 137 | 1873 | lost 1874 off Au Sable Point | |
115186 | Sam Cook | Thomas S. Mott | schooner | 318 | 137 | 1873 | lost 1882 off Brockville ON, raised 1884, rebuilt as schooner barge William Wheeler, wrecked in the St. Lawrence 1893 | |
90592 | M. J. Cummings | D. Lyons and E. Caufield | schooner | 330 | 142 | 1874 | lost 1894 near Milwaukee Harbor | |
75610 | J. Maria Scott | R. Scott, R. Richardson and J. & N. Beattie | schooner | 348 | 142 | 1874 | later White Star 1884, lost 1887 near Point Pelee, salvaged 1888, rebuilt as propeller 1893, burned 1901 in Port Huron MI | |
Fascination | Nicholas C. Goble | sloop | 31 | 1874 | ||||
140367 | Leadville | Michael J. Cummings | schooner | 343 | 142 | 1879 | lost 1883 east of Long Point | |
85780 | George H. Hasleton | John J. Courtney | steam yacht | 5 | 58 | 1883 | later Juliette 1903, abandoned 1930 | |
126201 | Charley Ferris | John K. Post & Co. | tugboat | 54 | 60 | 1884 | reported abandoned in Duluth in 1932 | |
106424 | Aida | James Macfarlane | steam yacht | 20 | 71 | 1885 | ||
NY, ON & Western RR | float | 125 | 1885 | |||||
Frontenac | USACE | dredge | 75 | 1891 | rebuilt in 1910, abandoned, hull became part of foundation of pier for Oswego Yacht Club | |||
Ontario | USACE | launch | 27 | 1904 | ||||
USACE | dump scow | 68 | 1905 | |||||
USACE | dump scow | 68 | 1905 | |||||
Sodus | USACE | dredge | 100 | 1912 | abandoned 1923. |