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13. Ship of the M o n t h - cont'd. Du rin g the course of the rebuilding, the overall length of V U L C A N was re du c e d by some 27 feet, and her old bow, w hich had been cut away c o m p l e t e ly, wa s re pla ced by an e n t i r e l y new and m u c h more m o d e r n forward end. The stea me r' s re vis ed dime nsions were 2 4 3 . 0 x 38 . 0 x 21 . 0, and she was 1799 Gross and 1024 Net. She n o w had a straight stem with a m o d e r n stoc kless anchor on the port side and a m u s h r o o m anchor to starboard, both s u spended from hawseholes. There was a full topgal lant forecastle with a short se ction of closed b u l w a r k at the stem. A rather large texas cabin was placed on the forec a s t l e head; there were three large windows in its face, and a w ider back sect i o n of the texas su ppo rte d wide bridge wings. On the bridge deck was placed an e n t irely new pilot hou se, a rectangular st ructure w i t h three w i n d o w s in its front and three wi ndo ws and a door in each side. No sunvisor was provided. The bridge deck wa s su rro unded by an open pipe rail. A new and rather more s ubstantial fo rem ast was si tuated immedi a t e l y abaft the texas. The side wi ndo ws and doors in both p i l o t h o u s e and texas were set at an e x tr em e l y acute angle because the sheer of the hull was such that even the new bow rose very m a r k e d l y toward the stem. If her bow was m o d e r n and rakish, however, the steamer's stern section stood in ma r k e d contrast because it had not b ee n m o d e r n i z e d at all, and still showed its old and rather pe culiar cabin lines. The rebuil t V U L C A N joined the fleet of the M o n t r e a l T r a n s p o r t a t i o n Comp a n y Ltd., of Montreal, and she was r e t urned to service in 1920 u nder the name (b) VINMOUNT. This name, w h i c h u sed the "Mount" suffix w h i c h the M . T . Co. had c hos en for a number of its newer vessels, is of q u e s t i o n a b l e origin, a l t h o u g h it has been suggested that it ma y refer to the Bois de Vincennes, an e a s t e r n suburb of Paris, France, and the site of a World War One battle in w h i c h Ca na di an troops participated. The st eam er was given a black hull and forecastle, while the fore c a s t l e head b u l w a r k was white. The cabins fore and aft, and also the boilerhouse, were white. The stack was all black, and the raised steel circle, on w h i c h the old H e l m 'H' had been carried, r e m ained in place, a l t h o u g h it was painted over in black. The only photo we have of V I N M O U N T at this stage of her career shows no evidence of the small white letters 'M. T . C o . ' w h i c h usua l l y a p p e a r e d on the stacks of the fleet's vessels. A large letter 'V' was placed on the foremast near its top, a l t h o u g h it was not i l l u m i n a t e d as a "whistle light" such as ma ny lake ve ssels carried. By this point in time, control of the v e n e r a b l e M o n t r e a l T r a n s p o r t a t i o n C o m pany had been ac qui r e d by Roy M. Wo l v i n and asso c i a t e s who, of course, also were m u c h i n te re sted in the o w n e r s h i p and m a n a g e m e n t of Canada S t e amship Lines Ltd., and before the 1920 n a v i g a t i o n season was over, the M . T . Co. had f o r m a l l y been a b s orbed into the C . S. L. cor p o r a t e structure. As a consequence, VINMOUNT became part of the C . S . L. fleet and she was given its u s u a l colours. The C . S . L. boats at that time wore red hulls and f o r e castles, their cabins were white, and they sported the orange-red, white and black stack that has become so familiar. On the bows was pain t e d the white out li ne of a di amond with the letters 'CSL' inside in white. It was not until about 1927 that VI NMOUNT r e c eived the white forec a s t l e w h i c h the fleet then was adopting, and in place of the diamond, the c o mpany's name was sp el le d out in large white letters, "billboard - s t y l e " , down the sides of the steamer. There were other changes in V I N M O U N T d u r i n g her C . S . L. years, and these all i n v o l v e d her fo rward end. As our photo of V I N M O U N T at To ronto in 1928 shows, she had gained a sunvisor over her w h e e l h o u s e wind o w s by that time, there was a binnacl e on the mo nkey's island, the island itself was s u r r o u n d e d by a high ste el -p ip e rail, and there were n a m e b o a r d s on that rail on each side. As well, the steps up to the bridge deck no longer ran up from the forward side of the texas extensions to the bridgewings, but inst e a d were m o v e d to a