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One mast. Round stern. After 1866 she was 309.25 tons gross, 298.73 tons net and 141.0' by American measurement. 1864 rated A and valued at $7,000. 1866 rated 1 and valued at $3,500. MATILDA's first owners were McLennan & Auger and she operated mainly on the Richelieu River, presumably in the lumber trade. She was sold American on 17 January 1866 and was removed from the Canadian register on 2 February 1866. She retained her name under American registry but sank on 13 October 1866. She was raised and was registered in Detroit in 1871, Milwaukee Wisconsin in 1875 and East Saginaw Michigan in 1879-86, all while noted in the registers as "foreign built". Rigged as a schooner 1884-86. She was cut by ice on a voyage from Kelly's Island Ohio to Saginaw and later sank in Lake Huron near Pine River on Lower Saginaw Bay on 12 January 1886. She had been carrying wine and coal. Note that Montreal Transportation Co. owned a steam tug of the same name in 1869. Alpena Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database; Board of Lake Underwriters Lake Vessel Register 1866; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Marine Museum of the Great Lakes Canadian Ship Registers on line; Merchant Vessels of the United States 1886; Mills Barges and Scows Before 1890; Milwaukee Public Library Great Lakes Marine Collection; Thomas Register of the Ships of the Lakes and river St. Lawrence 1864. 90 MELROSE composite schooner barge (C 103556). 1896-1920. 768.04 tons gross, 740.39 tons register, 183.5'. Launched at Montreal Transportation Co.'s Kingston Ontario yard by W. Ainsley on 26 April 1896. Iron frame. Steel keelson, combings, deck beams etc. Three masts. Round stern. 1897 rated A1 and valued at $38,000. 1903 value $11,500. 1906 value $10,000. 1907 value $15,000 and rated A1½. 1908-12 value $10,000. 1913-14 value $9,000. 1914 rated 90. 1915 value $8,000. 1916 value $7,500. 1917 value $18,000. 1918 value $15,300. 1919 value $12,600 and restricted to the waters between Port Colborne Ontario and Montreal. 1920 value $11,340. 1921 insurance rating = 90 restricted to Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. MELROSE went ashore one mile above Brockville Ontario on 23 November 1905 while in tow by the Montreal Transportation Co. canaller WESTMOUNT. She was got off by Donnelly and taken to Kingston where she was docked and caulked. In September 1906 she was ashore near Sault Ste. Marie when loaded with grain. 5,000 bushels of grain were lightered [see definitions] and she was pulled off. She sank in the Cornwall Canal on 9 June 1918 with a cargo of wheat but was raised. In 1920 she was sold to SincennesMcNaughton in a package with BURMA for $40,000. Her owner became Atlas Transportation, a Sincennes-McNaughton subsidiary. Her 1921-29 owner was 156