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Board of Lake Underwriters Lake Vessel Register 1878; Canada List of Shipping 1877, 1895, 1912 and 1915; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Directory of the Marine Interests of the Great Lakes 1884; Inland Lloyd's Vessel Register Canadian Hulls 1890, 1892 and 1897; Marine Museum of the Great Lakes Canadian Ship Registers on line; Mercantile Navy List 1875, 1883. 1892, 1897 1907 and 1917; Mills Barges and Scows Before 1890; British Whig 25 March 1881, 23 April 1885, 23 November 1887, 28 March 1895 and 2 April 1896; Canadian Railway & Marine World April 1906; Kingston Daily News 16 November 1875 and 19 August 1876; Toronto Globe 14 and 15 November 1885. 14 BELLA ex CAYUGA river barge (C 88569). 1872-1916. Original: 402 tons gross, 360.89 tons register, 135.3'. 20,000 bushel capacity. As rebuilt: 454.49 tons gross, 434.02 tons register, 166.0'. Built at Garden Island Ontario by Henry Roney in 1870. Never rigged with spars, but had two masts at least as rebuilt. Round stern. 1874 rated 1 out of a possible 3 and valued at $9,400. 1878 again rated 1 and valued at $7,500. 1884 rated B1. 1886 and 1890 rated A2 and valued at $8,000. 1892 rated A2 again but valued at $7,500. 1896 value $9,000 rated A2. 1897 rated B1 and valued at $6,000, required repairs. 1902-03 value $2,000. 1906 value $2,500. 1908 value $2,250. 1910 value $2,000. 1912 value $1,000. 1913 value $500. CAYUGA's first owner was probably the Calvin Co. but she wintered in 1870-71 at the Montreal Transportation Co. wharf in Kingston. Montreal Transportation Co. owned her by 1872. She was repaired in 1881 and rebuilt, lengthened and given a steel keelson in 1884-85. She was renamed at that time. She was rebuilt again in 1903. In the 1916 Montreal Transportation Co. reports she was noted as being for sale, but she foundered off the north end of Canada Island (Galops Rapids in the St. Lawrence) on 29 June 1916. Her original name, like those of several of the other Calvin barges, was one of the tribes of the Iroquoian group. She was renamed after John Gaskin's daughter Isabella who was born in 1872. J. Gaskin Letter Book 1884-86; Montreal Transportation Co. Annual Directors' Reports 1902, 1903, 1906, 1908, 1910 and 1913; Montreal Transportation Co. Directors' minutes 26 May 1916; Montreal Transportation Co. Kingston Grain Ledgers 6 November 1899-1 November 1900, 14 June-24 November 1901, 28 April-26 November 1902, 30 May 1902-4 May 1903, 25 March-6 Aug 1903, 25 April-27 November 1903, 13 June-7 Dec 1903, 28 Aug-7 Dec 1903, 7 May-15 Sept 1904, 21 May-17 Dec 1904, 29 April-15 June 1905, 29 April-23 June 1905, 19 July-22 November 1905, 21 April-24 May 1906; Alpena Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database; Association of Canadian Lake Underwriters Marine Register 1874; Board of Lake Underwriters Lake Vessel Register 1878; Canada Department of Marine and Fisheries Annual Report 1916; Canada List of Shipping 1877, 1895, 1910. 1912 and 1915; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Directory of the Marine Interests of the Great Lakes 1884; Inland Lloyd's Vessel Register Canadian Hulls 1890, 1892, 1896 and 1897; Marine Museum of the Great Lakes Canadian Ship Registers on line; Mercantile Navy List 1897 and 1917; Mills Barges and Scows Before 1890; Swainson A Shipping Empire: Garden Island; British Whig 28 May and 1 October 1884 and 21 November 1887; Kingston Daily News 19 December 1869, 19 December 1870, 2 October 1872, 3 June 1873, 7 May and 29 June 1874, 5 November 1875, 8 June, 1 August and 9 October 1876 and 1 June 1877; Marine Review 24 March 1898. 102