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Ship Registers on line; Mercantile Navy List 1897, 1898, 1904 and 1907; Mills Barges and Scows Before 1890; [Also see elevator listing at the end of the steamers list]. 26 CEYLON composite schooner barge (C 96915, renumbered C138222 after 1916 rebuild). 1913-1914. 948.96 tons gross, 907.87 tons register. After being rebuilt in 1916 she was measured at 197.5' and 970 gross tons. She was 870 net tons after a further rebuild in 1918. 205.4' (between perpendiculars) (Bascom and Gillham said 211.5', that may have been overall). Capacity 1,100,000 bd. ft. Launched at Garden Island Ontario by Thomas O'Brien 25 August 1891. Iron frame. Three masts. Round stern. 1907 value $15,000 and rated A1½. 1913-14 rated 90 (A1½). 1919 rated 85 coarse freight only [see definitions]. CEYLON was built by and for the Calvin Co. She was caulked in 1902, docked in 1904 and repaired in 1910. Montreal Transportation Co. bought her in September 1913 (handed over in October) for $12,000 worth of Montreal Transportation Co. stock. She was in the Kingston dry dock for repairs to her bottom in October 1913 but almost immediately thereafter went ashore on 23 October 1913 near Gull Pond (5 miles east of Point Petre) in South Marysburgh Township (Prince Edward County Ontario) when valued at $45,000. She had been in tow of the Montreal Transportation Co. tug BARTLETT along with the barge BURMA en route from Port Colborne Ontario to Montreal with grain. CEYLON was a constructive total loss. She was 75% insured. The wreck was sold to Donnelly, salved, rebuilt at Sorel Quebec and returned to service in 1916. Donnelly sold her to Rene Transportation who renamed her J.G. RENE. In 1920 they, in turn, sold her to Nova Scotia Steel and Coal of New Glasgow Nova Scotia. She was abandoned in 1943. Metcalf said she was hard to steer and "used up 9 rudderstocks in her existence". Montreal Transportation Co. Directors' Annual Report 1914; Montreal Transportation Co. Directors' Minutes 29 September and 11 December 1913; Alpena Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database; American Bureau of Shipping Great Lakes Register 1919 and 1921; Bascom and Gillham Early Ships of Canada Steamship Lines; Bureau Veritas Great Lakes Register 1914 and 1915; Canada List of Shipping 1895 and 1918; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Green's Marine Register of Great Lakes 1920; Greenwood Namesakes 1920-1929; Inland Lloyd's Vessel Register Canadian Hulls 1892, 1897 and 1907 (title varies); Kohl Kingston's Shipwrecks; Lloyd's Register 1905; Marine Museum of the Great Lakes Canadian Ship Registers on line; Mercantile Navy List 1892, 1897, 1918, 1923 and 1924; Metcalfe Canvas and Steam on Quinte Waters; Swainson A Shipping Empire: Garden Island; British Whig 8 October 1913; Marine Review 24 September 1891; Detroit Marine Historian February 1952. 27 CHEROKEE river barge (C 72566). 1906-10. 382.95 tons gross, 364.96 tons net, 151.0'. Capacity 28,000 bushels. Built in 1875 at Garden Island Ontario by Henry Roney. No masts. Round stern. 1878 rated 1 and valued at $9,500. 1897 rated A2½ and valued at $5,600. 1906 value $1,500. 110