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Ship of the M o n t h - cont'd. 10. The six steame rs were r e t u r n e d to lake service in 1922, and at this time they re joi ned their "long lost" sister J O H N SHARPLES, w hich had been o p e r a ted by the C h a r c o a l Iron C o m p a n y of A m e r i c a as (b) C I C O A after her salvage from the 1910 stranding. She had served in the war effort and r e m ained on the east coast of Canada u ntil 1919, when new owners brought her back to the lakes. In 1920, she was a c q u i r e d by the Glen T r a n s p o r t a t i o n Comp a n y Ltd., wh ich was a joint o p e ration of James P l a yfair and A. E. Mathews, of Toronto, and she was r e n a m e d (c) GLENVEGAN. As soon as possible after Pl ayfair a c q u i r e d the six French sisterships in 1921, they were given P layfair's typical "Glen" names, and thus FOURAS, the old CRERAR, became (c) GLENGA RNOCK. Most of Playfair's "Glen" names had c o n necti ons with pl aces in his father's S c o t t i s h homeland, but the o rigins of some of the names were p a r t i c u l a r l y obscure, and we can find no obvious d e r i v a t i o n for the name G L E N G A R N O C K in any atlas readily available to us. As they ran on the lakes in 1922, G L E N G A R N O C K and her Glen S t e amship s i s t e r ships looked p r e t t y sc ruffy indeed, as c o n t e m p o r a r y p hotographs indicate. They still had r u s t - s t r e a k e d black hulls, w i t h their old names bl acked over and the new na mes painted on rather r o u g h l y in large white letters. Their cabins were in a dr eadful state and any exposed woodwork was mu c h d e t e r io ra te d as a result of its exposure to salt water and the lack of c a r e ful ma i n t e n a n c e during the war crisis. The only s ignificant sign of the ships' Playfa ir o w n ership was the p a i n t i n g of their stacks in the usual Playfair design, crimson w ith a wide black smokeband at the top. Over the winter of 1922-1923, a general r e f u rbishment was carri ed out to make G L E N G A R N O C K and her sisters more fit for lake service, and it was at this time that they began to be painted up in full Playfair colours, with s pa rkl ing white cabins and grey hulls. Photos show, however, that even in the spring of 1923, not all of the p a i nting had yet been done. There is som et hing very u n u s u a l about the registry of G L E N G A R N O C K and her five Gle n St e a m s h i p f l eetmates (GLENARM, GLENDOCHART, GLENDOWAN, G L E NEALY and GLENFARN) du r i n g their years of P l a yfair ownership. They did not appear in the List of Shipping, the C a n a d i a n gove rnment sh ipping register, then pu bl is he d a n n u a l l y by the Depar t m e n t of Marine and Fisheries. They are not in our copy of the 1922 " D ominion List" (which purports to show all vessels on the Ca nad ian books as at 31st December, 1922) and they are not in the 1924 list either! Likewise, they do not appear in our copy of the 1922 Great Lakes Dep ar tm en t register of the A m e r i c a n Bureau of Shipping. We do, however, find them in our 1924-1925 Lloyd's Register, but they are shown simply as being of "British" registry, and no specific port of r e g i s try is shown for ANY of the six! We do not have a stern view of any of the sisters at this stage, so we cannot see w h e t h e r any home port was painted on their fantails. An official number of 145466 was shown by Lloyd's for the GLENGARNOCK, and the same li sting re corded her d imensions as 2 4 6 . 3 x 4 1 . 0 x 1 5 . 3, and her tonnage as 1572 Gross and 1169 Net. G L E N G A R N O C K was onl y to serve for three full seasons under Playfair m a n a g e ment, for early in 1925 there came a m a j o r r e o r g a n i z a t i o n of the fleets which James P l a yfair had managed. (It must be remem b e r e d that Playfair was an ent rep reneur, and much of his fin a n c i n g came from outside sources, for many of which his ships carr i e d c a r g o e s . ) In 1925, the Great Lakes N a v i g a tion Co mpa ny Ltd. was formed to operate the Playfair upper lakers and, during Ma rch of that year, most of the Playfair cana ller's were t ransferred to ow ner shi p by the George Hall Coal and Shipping Corporation, Montreal. G L E N G A R N O C K was one of these, as were her five Glen S teamships sisterships. Interestingly, this meant that BRI GN OG AN (which never was part rated from the last rem a i n i n g shared by Playfair and Mathews, Mathews St eam ship Comp a n y Ltd., they were reunited w ith their other sister, of the Pl ayfair fleet), but they were s e p a sister, GLENVEGAN, whose owne rship had been and which at this time was taken over by the Toronto, and was renamed (d) WI ARTON (I).