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LAY-UP LISTINGS 10. Once again, we will present this winter our annual report on the vessels laid up at the various lake and river ports, and we solicit the assistance of all of our members in preparing the listings. Once navigation has come to a halt, we would ask that our members visit their local ports and observe the various ships laid up there. Please write down very carefully (accuracy is most important) the names of all vessels wintering in each port and send your lists to the Editor as soon as possible. We hope that the complete re port can be printed in the February issue. Please do not assume that somebody else will send in the list from your area. We need the help of everyone to ensure the accuracy and completeness of our report. In the past, we have had some difficulty obtaining information for some of the ports on Lake Michigan, and we particularly seek assistance in that respect. Thank you. * * * In an effort to put readers in the right frame of mind for sending in their current lay-up lists, we present herewith the listing for Toronto Harbour for the winter of 1955-1956. It will be seen that thirty-nine vessels were here that winter, a far cry from the conditions we see today! R. BRUCE ANGUS BLUE CROSS BRITAMLUBE BRITAMOLENE BURLINGTON CARTIERDOC CAYUGA CITY OF TORONTO NORMAN P. CLEMENT COASTAL CARRIER COASTAL CASCADES COASTAL CREEK WILLIAM H. DANIELS DONNACONA EDWIN T. DOUGLASS EDMONTON HERON BAY DOUGLASS HOUGHTON CHARLES R. HUNTLEY JUDGE KENEFICK LAKESHELL MAKAWELI MAUNALOA II COL. ROBERT R. McCORMICK NIAGARA NEW YORK NEWS OIL TRANSPORTER PIC RIVER JOHN S. PILLSBURY PRESCOTT JOHN J. RAMMACHER JOHN B. RICHARDS HOWARD L. SHAW JAMES STEWART TRANSRIVER VANDOC VICTORIOUS SHELTON WEED WINDOC How is that for a trip down memory lane? We wish that we could take our ca mera to the waterfront today and see all those interesting vessels, particu larly all the canallers. By the way, only three of the vessels listed are still active today. Can you spot them? * * ** * DRAGON ROUGE Many members have indicated their pleasure in reading the piece which ap peared in the December issue concerning the Russell dredge DRAGON ROUGE. It was printed through the courtesy of Capt. John Leonard, who actually wrote it for a non-marine publication. Member Lorne Joyce has provided us with an additional bit of information, which he managed to locate on pages 195 and 196 of a book entitled Desperate V enture. The book concerns the Central Ontario Railway, and was written by James Plomer with Alan R. Capon. It was published by Mika Publishing, Belle ville, Ontario, in 1979. The item states that, early one June morning, while the Trenton yard engine was switching on the dock sidings, the engine crew managed to bunt a rail car over the edge of the dock and onto the dredge DRAGON ROUGE. Apparently, the wayward car all but demolished the dredge's deckhouse, in which the crew's quarters were located, but nobody was injured as DRAGON ROUGE's crew already had arisen and were about their work. The item is not specifically dated, but judging from the sequence of notations in the book, one might as sume that the incident took place during 1913. * * * * *