The steamer Chippewa served as a passenger boat in
the Lake Erie islands region from 1922 to 1938, for the Sandusky and Islands
Steamboat Company. From 1884 to 1909, the vessel was named the William P. Fessenden, and served as a
revenue cutter for the United States Treasury Department.
During the 1924 tornado the Chippewa stayed
afloat, but the Columbus sank into the waters of Sandusky Bay.
In an advertisement which appeared in the August 7,
1923 issue of the Sandusky Register, passengers aboard the Chippewa were
treated to music by an orchestra on their return trip from Put in Bay.
Pictured below are passengers
disembarking from the Chippewa in the 1930s.
The Chippewa offered “twilight rides” for those
attending the state convention of the American Legion, held in Sandusky in
August, 1934. In 1939 it was sold to the Peerless Cement Company, for
use as a barge, and in 1943 it was scrapped in Hamilton, Ontario.
Here is a postcard featuring the Chippewa from its days as a passenger boat in Lake
Erie on the Sandusky, Put in Bay, Lakeside route:
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My father, John Wonnell, went to Sandusky at the downtown docks where he picked out 22 radiators which were installed at tge house he designed and built at 540 cherry street in lakeside. I remember going to Sandusky while he chose which radiators to take. It was a very early memory, now very faded, about 1939 I believe. All but 2 of those radiators for hot water heat froze one winter while my parents went south for the winter.
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