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Ship of the M onth - cont'd. wi nd ow s again and put out into the lake to look for the HUDSON, We ex pec ted to find the EL MBAY gu arding her, as we had no know ledge of her trouble and de par tur e the day before. "It was a cold raw morn i n g and the wind was bl owing fresh from the east and a he avy sea still running. V i s i b i l i t y was very poor, as a heavy steam hung over the lake. We ran out for one hour south by east, then hauled up the lake before the wind, always keeping a sharp lookout for the ELMBAY and HUDSON, also us in g our whistle, but saw and heard nothing. We ran into Os hawa at 5 :00 p. m., and phoned Toronto and Port Weller to see if any steamer had re por ted seeing the H U D S O N and ELMBAY. From Port Weller, we learned that a steamer (presumably the SIMCOLITE) had reported seeing the BRULIN towing the BRUCE H U D S O N towards Port Weller. We left Oshawa at 6 : 15 p. m. and ar ri ve d at Port Weller at 1 1 : 30 p. m., just after the BRUCE HUDSON had been landed and libelled by the captain of the B R U L I N . " Ha vin g given, verbatim, Capt a i n Stitt's account, we would be remiss if we did not fo ll ow up on what h a p p e n e d to BRUCE HUDSON, rolling in the trough of the seas, after first ETHEL and then ELMBAY aba n d o n e d her to the elements. What follows is C . H . J. Snider's version (unfort u n a t e l y not a direct account by someone who was there), which a p p eared as "Schooner Days - CCLXXVIII" in the F e b ruary 6, 1937, edition of "The Evening Telegram", Toronto. The item was e n t itled "Picking Up $10 , 000 In Lake Ontario". " $1 0, 000 TO Owners, Bruce Li nds ay Bros , L t d ...................................... $ 1 , 2 5 0 . 00 Chief Engineer, A. G. Master, Capt. R. Leonard. 772. 75 S w e e t i n g ................. First Mate Chas. Levens. 1 3 5 . 00 2nd E n g i n e e r ................. Second Mate, Neil Mc Donald Wheelsman, R 6 8 5 . 45 Oiler, G. S c o t t .............. McLennan. Watchman, H. Q u e s n e l l e . 75. 00 Oiler, L. W o o d ............... Wheelsman, J McDonald. 90. 00 Fireman, C. H. C o o p e r Watchman, L. D i t c h b u r n . 75. 00 Fireman, T. S m i t h ........... Deckhand, W. F r a n z m a n .. 40. 00 Fireman, G. P e l h a m .......... Deckhand, J. C o n n o l l y .. 40. 00 Cook, F. L e o n a r d ............ 2nd Cook, E. T u r n e r ...... $20 . 00 $ 6 , 1 6 6 . 80 2 3 5 . 00 75 . 00 75 . 00 75 . 00 4 0 . 00 4 0 . 00 4 0 . 00 3 0 . 00 for it if you "Where did all this money come from - so handy for Christmas, too came on December 15th, 1936? From the Exchequer Court of Canada, p l e a s e ... "On No vember 16th, 1935, the C a n adian steel steamer BRULIN ([40], [b] OUTARDE [ I ] [60], [c] JAMES J. BUCKLER - e d . ), of 2241 tons gross, was s c u d ding up Lake Ontario before a strong northeaster, loaded to the hatches with $72 , 000 worth of newsprint pulp. She had left Quebec on N o v ember 11th, bound for Chicago... Capt. Ro derick Leonard was her master. "Thirty-seven na utical miles past Point Petre, in Prince Edward County, on the course for Niagara Light, the BRULIN spotted s o m ething low and black, like a s u bm er ged wharf, w a l l o w i n g in the seas ahead. Coming nearer, there was little d i f f i c u l t y in identi f y i n g it as one of those welded, steel barges oil companies use. Plainly, this one had parted from her convoying tug. "She was ro lling he avily in the trough. The great seas washed comp l e t e l y over her deck... only a foot or so above the lake level even when the water was smooth. No other vessel was in sight and there was no sign of life of any kind aboard. Two hours before, the BRULIN's crew had caught a glimpse of a steamer eight miles to the northward, but she was no longer visible, even as a smoke smudge in the... Novem b e r gale. The barge lay d i r e c t l y in the steamer lane of Lake Ontario, unlighted, uncontrolled, slowly dr ivi ng up the lake before the push of the big seas. "The BRULIN circled her several times, rolling very b adly herself as she