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Ship of the M o n t h - cont'd. 12. p h o t o g r a p h w h i c h a ccompanies this feature shows her with a load of p u l pw oo d piled high above her decks. As with her two most recent lake operators, h o w ever, C O U R T R I G H T did not enjoy many seasons under C . S . L. colours. By 1930, the lake shi pp ing in dustry was reeling under the effects of the Great D e p r e s s i o n and there simply was not enough business to keep all of the C . S . L. can al le rs busy. C O U R T R I G H T and her sisters, along wit h man y of their f l e e t mates, were laid up at Kingston. Some of those boats saw i n t e r m i t t e n t s e r vice du ri ng the D e p r e s s i o n years, but only the best of them wer e thus favoured, while C O U R T R I G H T and her sisters re mained idle right through until 1937. The one ex c e p t i o n was BRIGNOGAN, which was sold to the N i c h o l s o n T r a n sit Co mp a n y in 1929 and f i n ished out her career as (c) F E L L O W C R A F T (II). Du rin g 1937, Ca n a d a Ste a m s h i p Lines, having given up hope of ever a gain o p e ra tin g m a n y of its idle freighters and pass enger boats, sold m any of them for scrapping. A large group of idle canallers, including C O U R T R I G H T and her five "C-named" sisterships, was acquired by Les Chantiers M a n s e a u Ltee., of Sorel, Quebec, which was the forerunner of Marine Industries Ltd. In bunches, the va rious ships in volved in the sale were towed down to Sorel, and they were laid to rest in the "reserve fleet basin" (or "boneyard") al ong the R i c h e l i e u River, p r e s u m a b l y to be scrapped at a later date. In fact, none of the "C-ships" was scrapped immediately, so their n e w owner must have r e a l i z e d that some useful life re mained in them. The first to be sprung out of the reserve fleet was our old friend COURTRIGHT, whi ch in 1939 was t ra ns fe rr ed by the parent Marine Indu stries L t d . , to one of its s u b s i diaries, Br anc h Lines Ltd., w h i c h op erated tankers on the Great L akes and the St. L a w re nce River. C O U R T R I G H T was c o m p l e t e l y rebuilt at the Sorel shipyard and she e m e r g e d in 1940 as a tanker under the name (e) C E D A R B R A N C H (I), r e g i s t e r e d at Sorel. Both the D o m i n i o n List and Lloyd's Register showed her dimen s i o n s as 2 4 8 . 3 x 4 1 . 0 x 1 7 . 7, and her tonnage as 1700 Gross and 1010 Net. During the course of the rebuild, she was con v e r t e d from coal to oil firing, and this made her m uc h more e c o n o m i c a l to operate. A l t h o u g h she was o p e rated by Branch Lines Ltd., her actual o w nership remained w ith Marine Industries Ltd., Montreal. The steamer's basic hull c o n f i g u r a t i o n r e m ained the same, and she still had no open cabin aft. She had a c o m p l e t e l y new deck, however, as well as the n e c e s s a r y tanks in her holds, and a raised catwalk ran from the f o recastle head to the u p p e r deck aft. The big old funnel remained, but the two heavy pole masts were removed and replaced by much lighter pipe masts. The fore was ste pped i m m e d i a t e l y abaft the texas house, while the m a i n rose out of the poop near its forward end. Unfortunately, neither mast had m u c h rake, and this somewhat u n b a l a n c e d the ship's profile, c o n s i d e r i n g the h e a v y rake sported by the smokestack. Forward, all ne w deck houses were constructed. A spacious new texas was built on the fo re c a s t l e head, while on the bridge deck above was placed a new steel piloth ous e. It was somewhat similar in shape to the old w o o d e n upper pilothouse, w i t h a s l i ghtly curved front, rounded front corners, and five wi ndo ws across the face under a broad sunvisor, but the house was much larger than the old one. It now had two wi ndows and a door in each side, the doors op eni ng out onto broad bridgewings. An e m e r g e n c y binnacle was placed inside a small r a i l e d - o f f section of the pilo thouse roof. C E D A R B R A N C H was painted in her n e w owner's c u s tomary colours for that p a r t i cular period. Her hull was black, including the forecastle and poop, and the fore ca st le rail was white. The deck gear and texas house were pain t e d a dark red, as was the pil ot house sunvisor. The pilo thouse itself was white. The big sm oke sta ck was all black. C h a r t e r e d to the McColl F r o ntenac Oil Co mpany on her first trip on Wednesday, October 9th, d e s t i n a t i o n of CEDARBRANCH, but on one of her trouble. On Thursday, April 10th, 1941, whilst Ltd., she arrived at Toronto 1940. Toro n t o was a frequent trips here, she e n c o u n t e r e d en route to Toronto w ith a