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Ship of the M o n t h - cont'd. cargo. Ro ugh e s t imates of the damage to ship and cargo place the cost at $100, 0 0 0. "After stranding, the ship was s e v erely dama g e d as she rose and fell on a mod er at e swell sweeping in from Lake Huron. F i s h e r m e n report her as having swung b r o a d s i d e onto the shoal after first striking. Anot h e r ship of the Im per ial Oil fleet is s t a nding by to u n d e r t a k e salvage operations. None of the crew was in jured or e n d a n g e r e d by the stranding, and all are r e p orted st an di ng by their craft to give what aid they can. The A C A D I A L I T E is c o m m a n d e d by C a p t a i n J. E. Jenkins. "Cove Island Pa ssage is one of the trickiest on the Great Lakes. The Island is to the no rt h of the Bruce Peninsula, and marks the entrance of G e o rgian Bay into Lake Huron. A p o w erf ul light is m a i n t a i n e d there, and an eq ually po wer ful fog -signal. The signal was o p e r a t i n g at full force S a t u r d a y m o r n ing, l i gh th ou se officials report. The A C A D I A L I T E was not e q u ipped w i t h w i r e less but ca rr ie d a d i r e c t i o n a l w i r eless finder (sic), and signals for d i r e c tional finder s were being sent out as scheduled, the l i ghthouse men add. "The A C A D I A L I T E was w i t h i n half a mile of the channel w hen she struck, say f i s he rm en who know the waters well. They told 'The Telegram' the water for some dis ta nc e around was 'red with gasoline' w h i c h had poured from the vessel, and that its odor was notic e a b l e at the Cove Island lighthouse. So muc h was lost that, in coves and small inlets in the su r r o u n d i n g islands, the gasoli ne was still n o t i c e a b l e yesterday. "Because of the free gasoline, every p r e c a u t i o n is being taken plosion. 'One of the crew told me he w o u l d give $1,000 for a T e l e g r a m was told by an offici al who had been to the w r e c k . . . " ag ainst e x s m o k e , ' The A press item d ated Monday, M ar ch 23rd, 1942, entitled "Sets G o d e r i c h Record" rep or te d an ot her e a r l y - s e a s o n arrival. "Capt. Earl Jenkins, skipper of the Imper ial Oil tanker A CADIALIT E, pi loted his ship into G o d erich on Sa tu rd ay a f te rn oo n (March 21) to open the 1942 n a v i g a t i o n season. It was the earliest op eni ng on re cord here. The e i g h t - a n d - a - h a l f - h o u r trip from Sarnia was made in a soupy fog and, in its latter stages, a dr iving snowstorm. "At the t i m e - h o n o u r e d c e r e m o n y in the town hall in the evening, Capt. J e n kins, on e-t ime G o d erich boy, was p r e s e n t e d wit h a h i s t o r i c silk hat. It is c u st om ar y also to give the first skipper in a new fedora, but this year Capt. Jenki ns d i r e c t e d that the equi valent in m o n e y be dona t e d to the Red Cross. This is the third time that this lake capt a i n has won the coveted honour. "The top hat, one that Lord D u f ferin wore on his visit to G o d e r i c h many years ago, was p r e sented by H arb o u r Master Norman Mackay. Coun c i l l o r J. E. Huckins, c h a ir ma n of the harbour committee, p r e s e n t e d the ca ptain with a pa nor ami c p h o t o g r a p h of G o d e r i c h H a r b o u r . " In "The To ron to Star" of Wednesday, A pril 16, 1952, there appeared, under the he adi ng "Tanker N e a r l y Sinks in W e l l a n d Canal after Scraping Bank", a photo of I M P ER IAL W I N D S O R at Thorold, down so far by the head that her name and anchor po ck ets were almost submerged. A heavy stream of water could be seen being pu m p e d over the side from the port bow. An a c c o m p a n y i n g article gave detail s of the tanker's misadventure. "Thorold, Ap ril 16 - The tanker IMPERIAL WINDSOR almost sank in 25 feet of water in the We ll a n d Canal T u e s d a y a f t e r n o o n (April 15) after she ripped two large holes in her starboard bow. She limped two miles to the T h o r o l d dock and tied up w i t h her lower decks awash and her bow several feet lower than her stern, w e i g h t e d down by water po uring into her fo rward b u l khea d (sic). "Crew me mb er s said they b e l i e v e d that as the tanker, wit h a full cargo of h i g h - o c t a n e gasoline, a p p r o a c h e d Bridge 11, where No. 3 H i g h w a y crosses the canal at Al lan burg, the captain, James Burns of Point Edward, became wo rried w he n the bridge did not rise fast enough. He gave the order twice for 'full steam astern', and with the re versal of the screw, the ship was thrown offcourse, v e e r i n g toward the east bank of the canal and glancing off the stone