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Ship of the M onth - cont'd. 14. more she lt er ed location u nder the overhang, leading up through openings in the bridge deck. One now faced forward w h e n m o u n t i n g the steps, in stead of facing aft. In addition, the closed rail at the fo rward end of the f o r e ca stl e head had been leng t h e n e d rather considerably, and a fairlead was set into this rail on each side. But we would ask our readers to take a ver y close look at the pilo t h o u s e it self. It is our opinion that the cabin w h i c h had been built by the C o l l i n g wood sh ipy ard as r e c ently as 1920 had, in fact, been r e p l a c e d by an entirely new house before the 1928 photo was taken. The wi ndows si m p l y do not match those visibl e in the 1920 photo, p a r t i c u l a r l y down the sides, and the C o l l i ng wo od vi e w shows a c abin w ith sharp corners, while the Toronto photo shows a house wi th s l i ghtly roun d e d corners. It also looks to us like a steel structure, while the one in the sh ipyard view looks as if it were built of wood. In any event, V I N MOUNT o p e r a t e d r e g u l a r l y for C . S . L. for the bette r part of a decade, ca rr yi ng all of the va r i e d cargoes that the fleet's bulk canallers hauled. For several winters, she laid up at Toro n t o w it h storage coal, and at least twice she was a c c o m p a n i e d by another unus u a l vessel, the steamer (and former towbarge) THUN D E R BAY (I). Our photo of VI NM O U N T at T o r o n t o in 1928 is p a r t i c u l a r l y interesting. It was taken shortl y after the open i n g of the grain el evator located on Queen's Quay near the foot of Rees Street, which had just been built by Toronto E l e va tors Ltd., a firm w hich was an e n t e r p r i s e of such lumi n a r i e s as Gordon C. Leitch, James Norris and the Playfair interests. VINMOUNT, SHERBROOKE, O XF OR D and K I N M O U N T were m o o r e d across the end of the eleva t o r pier, while n ume rou s other canallers (only par t i a l l y visible in the right background), were an ch or ed in rows out in the Bay. This p h o t o g r a p h was taken either in late No ve mb er or early in D e c e m b e r of 1928. Unfo rtu nat ely , V I N MOUNT then was almost at the end of her active career. She ran for a while in 1929, but cargoes were scarce that summer, even before the Octobe r stock market crash that n o r m a l l y is c o n s i d e r e d to be the onset of the Great Depression. Acco rdingly, VINMOUNT, together w i t h many other C . S . L. canallers, was laid up at Kingston, and she never again turned her wheel. Some of the boats in the K i n g s t o n lay-up fleet came out o c c a s i o n a l l y to do a trip or two as required, but VINMOUNT, one of the oldest in the fleet, was not so lucky. The v e n er ab le VINMOUNT, no longer e c o n o m i c a l l y viable, r e m ained in ordinary at K i n gs to n until 1937, w h e n Canada Steamships dispo s e d of m any boats for which it had no apparent need. V I N M O U N T was included in a large group of c a n all ers p u rc ha sed by Les C h a n t i e r s M a n s e a u Ltee., of Sorel, w h i c h was the forerunner of Marine Indu s t r i e s Ltd. She was towed down to Sorel and was tucked away in the R i c h e l i e u River along with many of her former fleetmates. It has been re ported that she finally was cut up for scrap in 1944-1945. * * * * * NEWS OF THE CHAR L E S R. H U N T L E Y Me mbers "Mac" Ma c k a y and Daniel Berube have provided addit i o n a l detail to expand upon our mention, last issue, of CHARLES R. HUN T L E Y ' s May departure from the east coast. She is, indeed, now owned by V e rreault N a v i g a t i o n Inc., of Les Mechins, Quebec, and she has since been renamed (b) BV REYNA. In June, she was on the V e r reault drydock for a refit and she was given an e n tirely new pilothouse, w hich r e p o r t e d l y has changed her appea r a n c e c o n s i d e r ably. By August, she was har d at work d r e d g i n g in the Lower Traverse of the St. Lawren ce River below Ile d'Orleans, but we u n d e r s t a n d that she will be re tur nin g to Les Mechins during the autumn for a c o n t i n u a t i o n of her refit. We are pl eas ed that this historic, former steam canaller has found her "third life" and is back in regular service.