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Alpena Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database; Association of Canadian Lake Underwriters Marine Register 1874; Board of Lake Underwriters (Buffalo) Marine Register 1863; Canada List of Shipping 1877; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Directory of the Marine Interests of the Great Lakes 1884; Marine Museum of the Great Lakes Canadian Ship Registers on line; Mills Barges and Scows Before 1890; Polk's Marine Directory of the Great Lakes 1888; Thomas Register of the Ships of the Lakes and river St. Lawrence 1864; British Whig 22 March 1862; Kingston Daily News 2 September 1858, 24 April 1868, 18 May 1869, 24 July 1871, 4 May, 3 July 8 August, 3 November and 6 November 1872, 11 August and 15 November 1873 and 26 June 1874. 56 FRANK river barge. 1872-1884. 145.58 ""unit tons". 95.58'. 10,000 bushels capacity. Built by A. Cantin at Montreal in 1862. One mast. Round stern. 1864 rated A and valued at $3,000. 1866 rated 1 and valued at $2,000. 1884 rated B2. At first FRANK was an Auger barge. Her 1864 owner was McMartin of Montreal. She was apparently not active on the upper river in 1884-86 and was not in the Montreal Transportation Co. fleet list published in the Marine Record in 1887. Removed from the register on 29 April 1907 as she had been broken up. Alpena Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database; Association of Canadian Lake Underwriters Marine Register 1874; Board of Lake Underwriters Lake Vessel Register 1866; Canada List of Shipping 1877 and 1895; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Directory of the Marine Interests of the Great Lakes 1884; Mills Barges and Scows Before 1890; Thomas Register of the Ships of the Lakes and river St. Lawrence 1864; Kingston Daily News 4 May 1872, 8 September 1873, 13 May 1874; Marine Record 7 April 1887. GASKIN see JOHN GASKIN. 57 GEORGE T. DAVIE steel barge (C 107233). 1907-1920. 680 gross and 679 net tons. 177.5'. Capacity 44,000 bushels of wheat at canal draft = 1,320 tons. 50,000 bushels maximum. Built by Geo. T. Davie & Sons at Levis Quebec in 1898. Yard #2. Steel with wooden bottom and bilges. Steam steering and winches. Had a large deck crane late in her existence. 1908 value $16,000. 1910 value $7,000. 1912-15 value $17,000. 1914 insurance rating = 90 restricted to the St. Lawrence River. 1915 value $17,000. 1916 value $16,500. 1917 value $38,000. 1918 value $32,300. 1919 value $26,600, restricted to Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. 1920 value $23,940. 1921 was on the company books for $26,000 with an insurance rating of 90. DAVIE's first owner was John L. Davie who still owned her in 1904. He sold her soon after that to lumberman J.R. Booth. Montreal Transportation Co. bought her from Booth for $16,000 on 7 May 1907, intended for the St. Lawrence River trade. She sank at Point Vivian near Alexandria Bay New York on 12 June 1911 while carrying grain. The Calvin Co. tried to raise her for $10,000 but failed. She was eventually raised by N.R. Hinkley on 3 February 130