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Ship of the Mon th - cont'd. S I N A L O A rather slow ly u n l o a d e d her cargo of coal at the foot of Po ison Street, and by April 14th, she was ca rrying the name (d) STONEFAX. She then p r o c e e d e d down into the Ship Cha nn el and under the south Cherry Street bridge. There she re mained for several days, u n d e r g o i n g refit work. Her f u n nel, however, c o n t i n u e d to be pa inted all bla ck dur in g A pril and not until early summer did STO NEFAX rec ei ve the usual Hall "wish bo ne and 'H'" des ig n in white on her black stack. One might well won d e r how the steamer came by her new name. The "fax" suffix came to be c o n s i d e r e d as som e t h i n g of a Halco "t ra demark" dur in g the 1960s and 1970s, in v iew of the fact that four of the fleet's ships ca rried it. The suffix, however, did not o r iginate wit h Hall, but came into the fleet by way of the canal-si ze d, s e l f - u n l o a d i n g st eamer COALFAX, w hich Hall a c q uired in 1956 from the Coal Ca rriers C o r p o r a t i o n Ltd., of Brockville, Ontario. This boat was the first self-u n l o a d e r to op erate u nder Hall C o r p o r a t i o n ownership, and so she was s o mething of an i nnovation to its trades, even though she was not by any mea ns a new ves se l whe n purchased. SINA L O A was the se cond s e l f - u n l o a d e r to be ac quired by the Hall interests, and so it was deemed a p p r o p r i a t e for the "fax" suffix to form part of her new name, r egar dless of the fact ( f a x ? ) that the name was not i ndigenous to the fleet and its actual or iginal d e r i v a t i o n ma y not have been known by the new owners. (The name is said to have been a c o a l - s h i p p e r 's play on the words "cold f a c t s " . ) In any event, the suffi x was giv en to the newl ya c q uired steamer, and the prefix "stone" was added as a d e s c r i p t i o n of the major trade in w h i c h Hall i n t ended the st eamer to serve. It was plan n e d that STONE F A X would ope rate pri m a r i l y on the stone trade from Colborne, Ontario, into the Clarkson, Ontario, plant of the St. Lawre nc e Cement Company, and during the 1961 season, S T O NEFAX haule d a reco rd 7 0 0 , 000 tons of stone into this plant. The run was p a r t i c u l a r l y profi t a b l e as it i n v olved no canalling. STONEFAX spent her first few years of Hall op er ation dul y and s u c c e s s f u l l y serving her new owners. The only incident of any natu re of whi ch we have knowledge is one of Dec em be r 20, 1963, whe n she becam e trapped in ice on Lake St. Clair whilst eng ag ed in late-s e a s o n navig a t i o n which, usually, was not the forte of such v e nerable hulls. During the winter of 1961-1962, S T O NEFAX had been laid up along the nor th (Commissioners Street) wall of the To ronto Turn i n g Basin, at whi ch time she was converted from coal to oil fuel by Ship Repai rs & Supplies Ltd., Toronto. This w or k involved the i n s t a l l a t i o n of oil bunke r tanks at the f o r ward end of the boi lerhouse, whe re the coal bunke rs p r e v i o u s l y had been l o cated. No o u t w a r d l y vi sible changes in the ship's ap pe arance resulted. The winter of 1964-19 65 was a bit unu su al for STONEFAX. She had been bo oked to spend the winte r at Port Weller Dry Docks for some n e c e s s a r y maint en an ce , but because of winter wor k on the lower sec ti on of the Well a n d Canal, she was unable to r each the shipyard. Accor di ng ly , while Seaway A u t h o r i t y w o r k men spent the winter r e pairing the upper sill and gates of Lock One, ST O NEFAX nest l e d wit h i n the drai n e d lock, whe re the sh ipyard attended to the n e c e s s a r y work. Whe n the canal opene d to traffic on April 1st, 1965, S T O N E FAX, w hich since had been ref l o a t e d and pulled back out of the lock, was one of the first u p b o u n d vessels, pa ssing up the canal on the first day of n a v i g a t i o n to load a cargo of stone at the R. E. Law dock at Hu mb erstone. At 5: 20 a. m. on Friday, Oct ob er 14, 1966, the career of ST ONEFAX very nea rl y came to a close. The steamer was do wn bound in the Welland Ship Canal, with a cargo of 7, 000 tons of potas h co ns igned to Oswego, New York, and she was in the reach betw e e n Bridge 12 at Port R o b i n s o n and Bridge 11 at Allanburg, when she met the upbo u n d N o r w e g i a n salty AR T H U R STOVE. A c o n t e m p o r a r y press report quoted STO NEFAX watch m a n Ray Gauthier, who was on deck getting lines ready for the passage through the Gua rd Gate and Lock Seven, as stating that he ran to the p i lothouse and hea rd the mas te r order the helm hard to starboard. He said that it seemed to him that ART HU R STOVE