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Ship of the Mo nth - cont'd. 10. We know of only one photo gr ap h of SADIE and we are pleased to present it with this article. Taken by famous Toronto phot og ra ph er F. W. Micklethwaite, pro bab ly about 1892, it caught SADIE a fair distance out as she made ready to turn to starboard to land at the Hanlan's Point ferry docks. It was a busy day at the Point, as can be seen from the number of people, all decked out in their finery, on the promenade. The view was taken from a spot south of the Hotel Hanlan, which faced east and looked out dir ec tl y over the ferry docks. The small ferry visible just to the right of the big electric arc light, following SADIE's course to the Point, is KATHLEEN. From the m i d- 18 80 s onward, the o w ner shi p of SADIE was the same as that of CANADI AN/ TH IS TL E; she passed to the Doty Ferry C o mp an y in 1887 and to the To ronto Ferry Co mp a n y Li mi t e d in 1890. And, like CANADIAN, she was muc h in need of a major refit by the mid-1890s. So, in 1895, the year after TH ISTLE's rebuilding, SADIE fol lo wed her out to the And re ws Shipyard at O a k ville. The Ferry Company, however, had muc h more of a rebuild planned for SADIE than was done on her ru nn in g mate. Impre sse d by the success of THISTLE and even more so by the e f f i c i e n c y and po pu l a r i t y of MA Y F L O W E R and PRIMROSE, the company de ci de d that SADIE w o u l d be rebuilt as a double-ender, and with an en ti re ly new power plant. When she re turned to Toronto Bay, she was renamed (c) SHAM ROC K (I), and she looked like a brand new vessel, albeit wi t h a somewhat antique appearance. Her oak hull now had sharp ends, and me as ur ed 1 0 3 . 2 feet in length and 24. 0 feet in breadth of hull, while her tonnage was 154 Gross and 101 Net. Her depth of hull may have been 5. 4 feet, but we cannot be sure of this. The D o min ion List of 1895 shows her depth as an incredible 3 5 . 4 feet ( ! ) and this error never was caught, for it still appears in the 1903 listing. I n t e r e s t ingly, every other register we have seen, reg ar dl es s of the pu bli shi ng source, showed the length and beam of SHAMROCK, but oddly left the depth column blank, as if u n w i l l i n g to repeat the Ca na d i a n regist er' s egregious error but unable to a s c er ta in the correct information. SH AM ROC K was po we re d by a brand new incl ine d co nde nsi ng engine, with two cy linders, each of 17 inches diameter, and a 42- inc h stroke. The engine, which produ ced 170 In dicated H o r s e p o w e r at 40 rev olu ti on s per minute, was built for the ship in 1895 by the Doty Engine Company. Steam at 85 p . s . i. was p r o duced by one co al - f i r e d Scotch boiler, 7'6" in di am ete r and 9'0" in length. It had two furnaces, with 639 square feet of hea ti ng surface. The boiler al so was m a n u f a c t u r e d by Doty, but back in 1886, so we suppose that it is p o s sible that this boiler may have been put into her back in the "1885 Andrews rebuild", along with the ea rlier Doty 50 h . p. engine, if that re co ns tr uc ti on ac tu al l y occu rr ed over the winter of 1885-1886. SH AM RO C K was an impre ss iv e steamer, as shown by the var io us ph ot og ra ph s of her, two of wh ic h are re pr o d u ce d herewith. One of them, an imp re ss iv el y sharp M i c k l e t h w a i t e view, o b v i ou sl y taken from the h u r ri ca ne deck of either MA Y F L O W E R or PRIMROSE, whi ch is runn ing opposite SH AM R O C K on the Island Park route, and was taken just before the two steamers met in passing, also gives a good i mp re ss io n of the old To ro nt o wat er fr on t and also the skyline of the city before the Great Fire of 1904 changed it so drastically. As well, there were two known pain ti ngs of SHAMROCK done by the famous T o ronto Harbour artist Charles I. Gibbons. One of them ap pa r e n t l y per ished a number of years ago, together with other Gibbons ferry paintings, and the only one known to exist today hangs only a few feet away from where this feature is being written. * * * Ed. and for N o t e : Here, for want of space, we must cut short the story of THISTLE SHAMROCK. It will, however, be co ncluded in the M ar ch issue, so watch it then, along with some additional illustrations. * * * * *