Name of Ship: TRADE WIND
Year of Registration: 1885
Type of Ship: Schooner
Port of Registry: St. Catharines, Ontario
Where Built: Port Hope, Ontario
Net Tonnage:181Remarks:
Transferred to Whitby, Ontario on January 14, 1887
Official Number:88637
Name of Ship: TRADE WIND
Year of Registration: 1887
Type of Ship: Schooner
Port of Registry: Whitby, Ontario
Where Built: Port Hope, Ontario
Net Tonnage:181Remarks:
- Burnt in Kingston Harbour on April 5, 1909
- Registry closed March 30, 1911
Official Number:88637

Wind and Hail.
A Startling Display Of The Elements On Saturday.
The shipping in the river suffered also. The schooner TRENTON broke loose from her dock and drifted away, but was not damaged. The schooner TRADE WIND was lying just outside the harbor, and when the squall came up an effort was made to get her inside, and in doing so a hole was stove in her starboard side by running against the dock.
Cleveland Herald
April 30, 1877
SCHOONER TRADE WIND AFIRE AT KINGSTON.
Kingston, Ont. April 13. — Disaster has overtaken several vessels since navigation opened. Saturday the schooner CALKINS smashed herself and the Cataraqui swing bridge and last night the schooner TRADE WIND, as she was about to clear for Oswego, took fire at the Kingston and Pembroke wharf. The loss was $1,500 partially insured.
Buffalo Evening News
Tuesday, April 13, 1909
he schr. TRADE WIND, bound from Cobourg to Cleveland with iron ore was towed to Erie Wednesday by the revenue cutter COMMODORE PERRY, in a disabled condition. The PERRY found her lying at anchor, perfectly helpless, having lost her rudder.
Buffalo Daily Courier
October 25, 1873 3-4
The “TRADE WIND.” — The Brighton Sentinel has a long and spirited account of the launch of the schooner TRADE WIND, which took place at Colborne, C.W., on Wednesday last. This being the first vessel built at that place, the launch called together two or three thousand persons to witness it.
Among them was a large number of ladies, who presented Mr. J. M. Grover, the owner, with a beautiful flag, for his vessel, in a neat and appropriate address, to which Mr. Grover responded in suitable terms. The Sentinel says, “great praise is due to Mr. Peter Lamoree, the builder, for his skill and calculation, in arranging everything so that no accident occurred, and that the vessel did not ground, as the water was barely enough to carry
“After the
Since writing the above, we have seen the TRADE WIND, she
Oswego Times
Wednesday, June 1, 1853
TRADE WIND Schooner, lost her jibboom by collision at Chicago.
Marine Disasters on the Western
Lakes during 1869, Capt. J.W. Hall