Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Montreal Transportation Co., 1868-1921, p. 134

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August 1873, 22 August 1874, 23 October 1875, 8 June, 1 August and 9 October 1876, 1 and 23 June 1877; Marine Record 7 April 1887; Marine Review 24 March 1898. 61 HECTOR ex GLENORA schooner barge later river barge (80699). 1882-1916. Original: 660.52 gross tons, 627.65 tons register, 165.8'. As rebuilt: 575.56 tons gross (her deckhouse was 19 of those tons); 539.03 tons net, 533 under deck. 170.3'. Capacity 40,000 bushels. Built in 1882 by Robert Robertson at the Montreal Transportation Co. shipyard in Kingston Ontario. Originally three masted but had no masts after rebuild. Round stern. Estimated cost (in 1881) was $20,000. 1882 and 1884 rated as A1½. 1890 rated A2 and valued at $23,000. 1898 value $8,000. 1902 value $4,500. 1903-06 value $4,000. 1908 value $3,500. 1910-12 value $4,000. 1913 value $3,500. 1914 value $3,000. 1914-15 insurance rating = 85 and restricted to Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. 1915 value $2,000. 1919 rating 80. 1921 insurance rating 80 coarse freight only [see definitions]. As a lake barge GLENORA was normally towed by GLENGARRY in company with JOHN GASKIN (the three "G"s). She was laid up for part of 1884 due to a lack of business. The "3 Gs" were chartered to Ogilvie Flour for the entire 1886 season to run from Duluth Minnesota to Kingston with grain, returning to Port Arthur Ontario with coal for the Canadian Pacific Railway. She was damaged in a gale near Long Point on Prince Edward County Ontario in 1887 and was feared lost with a crew of 8 and 42,000 bushels on board. The barge was insured for $18,000. She was recovered, however, and there was no loss of life. She was damaged while adrift in Lake Superior after she had been in tow by the tug JAMES A. WALKER in 1892 and was sunk in collision in the Detroit River later that year. She was raised, rebuilt and eventually renamed and relaunched on 16 May 1896. She stranded near Nicholson's Island (near Wellington Ontario) on 22 October 1898 along with KILDONAN. Both had been under tow by the Montreal Transportation Co. tug JAMES A. WALKER when the tug foundered while on passage Charlotte (Rochester) New York -Kingston. Initially it was said she could not be refloated, but she was pulled off and returned to service after $2,000 in repairs. She was valued at $8,000 at the time and was not insured. She had large repairs in 1913. She was sold in 1916 to the Gulf Pulp and Paper Co. for $4,500. Her 1918-19 owner was J.G. Rene Transportation of Montreal. Her 1919-20 owner was Atlas Transportation that was owned by Sincennes-McNaughton. Sincennes-McNaughton owned her themselves 192025. She was sold to Consolidated Oka Sand & Gravel (also owned by Sincennes-McNaughton), laid up in 1928 and broken up in 1929 although she remained in the List of Shipping until 1931. 134

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