Sailing Adventures of Captain Edward H. Brownell & Captain William Hall
Sailing Adventures of Captain Edward H. Howell
His First Home in Bay View (1891-1903)
526 EastDover Street
His Ships and Sailing Adventures While Living Here
Ships he crewed and captained while living in Bay View at 526 E. Dover St. (1891-1903)
Above left: the schooner Angus Smith, date(s) unknown, as crewman; Sailing adventures while aboard as crewman: none reported. Photo courtesy Irv Schultz, the Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library, Thunder Bay Research Collection.
Above right: the steamer Neosho, possibly 1891-1904; Sailing adventures while captain: none discovered. Photo courtesy the Edward J. Dowling Collection, University of Detroit-Mercy; the Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library, Thunder Bay Research Collection.
His Second Home in Bay View (1904-1932)
514 East Dover Street
His Ships and Sailing Adventures While Living at 305 E. Smith St
Ships he captained while living in Bay View at 514 E. Dover St. (1905-15)
Above: the steamer Ferdinand Schlesinger, 1905-15 (he retired in 1915); Sailing adventures while captain: On 23 November 1905, the Milwaukee Harbormaster was issued a warrant by the City of Milwaukee for the arrest of Captain “John Jones” of the Ferdinand Schlesinger, charging the mysterious unknown captain with blocking traffic for fifteen minutes by holding the Grand Avenue bridge at Milwaukee open on 19 November. 22 After freeing itself from the “bridge blockage” on the 19th, the Schlesinger continued on its way out of Milwaukee and headed north. Eleven days later on 30 November, the Schlesinger ran aground on False Presque Isle Point, Michigan (10 miles north of Alpena), northbound on Lake Huron and likely headed back to Milwaukee from Buffalo (since it was loaded with coal, a typical route with that cargo) during a “piercing northwest gale and in a heavy snowstorm.” Two tugboats from Alpena, Michigan, were dispatched to pull the Schlesinger off the rocks, though 1/3 of the ship’s cargo of coal had to be removed to lighten it. The Schlesinger’s rudder and steering gear were damaged and the hull was leaking. 23 Able to get back underway on its own, though limping along from the damage, the Schlesinger continued back home to Milwaukee. Upon arrival, the Milwaukee the authorities went aboard the Ferdinand Schlesinger and issued the arrest warrant to “Captain John Jones” who was Captain Edward H. Brownell. Captain Brownell then appeared in front of the judge and was formally charged with violation of the city ordinance in regard to blockading bridges. However, the judge gave him a suspended sentence though the captain still owed a fine. 24 Photo courtesy the Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library, Thunder Bay Research Collection.
His Ships and Sailing Adventures Before Bay View
Unknown
The Sailing Adventures of Captain William Hall
(Sources provided in Volume II of the book, “Bay View: Town of Lake CAPTAINS!” available for purchase now on Amazon.com and HenschelHausBooks.com)
His Only Home in Bay View (1895-96)
2032 South Kinnickinnic Avenue (torn down)
Above: The fireboat No. 15 (aka the Cataract) of the Milwaukee Fire Department, 1895-96; Sailing adventures while captain: none reported. This fireboat was also captained over its career by four other Bay View lake captains (Hugh Clark, John Olsen, James Sheehan, and Frank Tiernan).
Photo courtesy the Historical Collections of the Great Lakes, Bowling Green State University.
