Category:Frontenac (ship, 1816)

**PS Frontenac**
	first paddle steamer launched on the Great Lakes
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Constructed at Finkle’s Point a few miles west of Kingston in Ernesttown Bath, on the shore of Lake Ontario.
September 7, 1816 launched
The engine cost £7,000. “Before the vessel was completed, the cost reached nearly the princely sum of £20,000.
the two paddlewheels approximately 12.2 meters in circumference
Length: 51.8 m
Wide: 9.8 m
Draught: 2.4 m when loaded
Tonnage: 700.
Sold at Auction in 1825, for only £1,500.
September 15, 1827 the Frontenac was found adrift in the Niagara River, the vessel engulfed in fire. The remains were lost to the bottom of the waterway.

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