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Ontario while on a tow from Oswego to Montreal. Two of her crew were critically injured. She was rebuilt and lengthened with a steel keelson in 188586 (relaunched on 22 June 1886). She was renamed then. She was adrift and "waterlogged" on Lake Superior in October 1888 during the same storm that sank BRANDON, but JENNIE survived. JENNIE was rebuilt again in 1889, caulked in 1893 and rebuilt a third time in 1908. In 1913 she was sold to George Hanna of Montreal for $2,000 although the List of Shipping continued to show Montreal Transportation Co. as her owner to at least 1918. Lloyd's 1890 and 1892 spelled her name "Jeannie". Her original name, SENECA, was one of the Iroquoian names given to of a series of barges built on Garden Island. Her second name, JENNIE, may have had some Gaskin family significance. J. Gaskin Letter Book 1884-86; Montreal Transportation Co. Annual Directors' Reports 1902, 1903, 1906, 1908, 1910 and 1913; Montreal Transportation Co. Directors' Minutes 11 March and 6 June 1913; Montreal Transportation Co. Kingston Grain Ledgers 24 Apr-22 June 1900, 14 June-24 November 1901, 28 April-26 November 1902, 30 May 1902-4 May 1903, 25 April27 November 1903, 13 June-7 Dec 1903, 6 Aug-2 Oct 1903, 7 May-15 Sept 1904, 21 May-17 Dec 1904, 17 Aug-24 November 1904, 27 April-28 Sept 1905, 29 April-23 June 1905, 19 July22 November 1905, 21 April-24 May 1906; Alpena Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database; Association of Canadian Lake Underwriters Marine Register 1874; Board of Lake Underwriters (Buffalo) Lake Vessel Register 1878; Canada List of Shipping 1877, 1895, 1910, 1912 and 1918; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Directory of the Marine Interests of the Great Lakes 1884; Inland Lloyd's Vessel Register Canadian Hulls 1890 and 1892; Lloyd's Register 1905; Marine Museum of the Great Lakes Canadian Ship Registers on line; Mercantile Navy List 1892, 1897 and 1918; Mills Barges and Scows Before 1890; Swainson A Shipping Empire: Garden Island; British Whig 3 December 1880, 24 May 1881, 14 March 1882, 16 June and 6 October 1883, 17 May, 19 August and 31 October 1884, 18 May 1885, 23 June 1886 and 5 October 1888; Detroit Marine Historian April 1952; Kingston Daily News 10 July 1871 and 27 May 1878; Marine Record 7 April 1887; Marine Review 24 March 1898. 71 JEREMIAH GODFREY lake barge ex schooner (C 140965 ex U 76211). 1919- 1921. 653.22 tons gross, 620.56 tons net, 177' (overall) (all American measurements). Canadian measurement 860 tons gross, 181.42' (Bascom & Gillham said 180'). Original capacity said to be 47,000 bushels. 1921 capacity 35,000 bushels = 1,050 tons of wheat on a 14' draft. Originally three masts, later two. Raised fo'c'stle. Built in 1881 at Port Huron Michigan by Dunford & Alverson. Cost $30,000. Crew of five as a schooner. 1912-14 insurance rating 85 coarse freight only [see definitions]. 1919 value $50,000. 1920 value $13,500. 1921 value $12,000. GODFREY's first owner was J.B. Lozen of New Baltimore Michigan. During a storm on 4 October 1881 she was repeatedly hit by the schooner MOONLIGHT (U 90719, 777.01 tons gross) at the entrance to the Cuyahoga River at Cleveland. GODFREY was found to have been partly at fault as she had tied 142