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BELLE sees COTEAU 15 BISMARK aka BISMARCK river barge ex schooner (C 72578). 1906. 332.26 tons gross, 302.04 tons net, 131.7'. 25,000 bushel capacity. Launched at Port Dalhousie Ontario by S.D. Andrews & Son in April of 1871. Three masts. Square stern. In 1878 and 1884 she was rated A2. 1892 rated A2½ and valued at $6,800. 1897 rated B1 and valued at $3,000. BISMARK was either built for the timber trade or was soon modified for it. In September 1871 she was in collision with the schooner E. HARMON (possibly C 71256, 29 tons register) at Port Colborne Ontario and then a little later went ashore near Sheboygan Michigan. She was ashore again at North Harbor reef on Lake Erie in September 1873 and then broke loose from her Garden Island Ontario anchorage and went ashore on Ferguson Point of Wolfe Island in December 1873. Her 1877 owner was E.A. Booth of Garden Island. In 1878 her owners were Breck et al of Garden Island. On 13 September of that year she stranded near Port Credit Ontario and on 12 August 1879 she was in collision with the propeller PERSIA (C 47013, 757 tons gross) near Presque Isle while on passage from Garden Island to Toledo Ohio. There was $300 damage to BISMARK. L.W. Breck sold her to A. Malone of Garden Island in 1880. She was damaged by ice in the winter of 1880-81. The Whig said that in August 1883 BISMARK was in collision with the schooner MAGGIE BURNS in Hamilton Bay and that BURNS was dismasted in the collision. No record was found of any lake vessel with the name MAGGIE BURNS. BISMARK's 1883 owner was the Kingston & Montreal Forwarding Co. They cut her down to a river barge at Portsmouth that year. She got a new stern and was caulked in 1885. In 1890 she was noted as requiring repairs. She was repaired and given a new deck after going ashore near Oswego New York in July 1892 with a cargo of coal while on passage to Montreal. In June 1896 she hit a guard in the Cornwall Canal and sank while on passage from Ogdensburg New York to Montreal with a cargo of coal. In 1897 she was again noted as requiring repairs. Her ownership was transferred to Montreal Transportation Co. on 26 March 1906 when they took over Kingston & Montreal Forwarding Co. Montreal Transportation Co. quickly sold her for $2,500. A. Desrosiers of Lanoraie Quebec owned her in 1907-15. She was not in the 1918 List of Shipping. Presumably named for the German chancellor. 103