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Deals Fir or pine boards cut to the dimensions 6' to 12' x 7" to 11" x 3". Originally obtained from what was left when sawmills squared logs. They were a common cargo both on the Great Lakes and on outbound ocean voyages. Insurance Ratings and Values The method of recording insurance values varied from company to company and also changed over time. In 1884, for example, the Directory of the Marine Interests of the Great Lakes used the same scale as the Inland Lloyd's. From best to worst the grades given were A1*, A1, A1½, A2, A2½, B1, B1½, B2 and 00. B2 meant "should not be insured" and 00 meant "do not insure". This list quotes Bureau Veritas Great Lakes ratings where available. Approximate 1914 Insurance Rating Comparisons: The following was taken from the Bureau Veritas Great Lakes Register 1914: Bureau Veritas Bureau Veritas Great Lakes Ocean 100 95 90 85 80 75 1.1 1.1 1.1 2.1 2.1 2.1 Lloyd's Record of American Shipping A1 A1 A1½ A1¾ A2 A2½ A1 A1 A1 A1 Æ1 E1 Insurance/Book values are given for vessels in some cases. Insurance values from registers predominate prior to 1903. Book values, taken from the minutes of the Montreal Transportation Co. Board of Directors, predominate after that date. In particular, the amount spent on each vessel for improvements in the year 1916 is noted. That is just a sample year as improvements were on-going. Lakehead The western head of Lake Superior. The term is normally used for the "Canadian" lakehead ports of Port Arthur (Canadian Northern Railway later Canadian National Railway connections) and Fort William (Canadian Pacific Railway connections) Ontario now united as the city of Thunder Bay. The American lakehead is not a commonly used term but includes the cities of Duluth Minnesota and Superior Wisconsin Length Measurement The actual length that was quoted for a vessel is often hard to determine because in many cases the definition of length used was not indicated. Most 10