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Sincennes-McNaughton and then Sin-Mac to 1935. She was broken up and her registry was closed on 5 February 1935. Montreal Transportation Co. Annual Directors' Reports 1903, 1906, 1908, 1910 and 1913-20; Montreal Transportation Co. Charter (1917) Schedule A; Montreal Transportation Co. Directors' Minutes 15 March 1920; Montreal Transportation Co. Engineers' Logs India 4 Sept-4 Dec 1917 and 25 April-1 June 1918, R.G.A. Weaver 1 May-14 Oct 1917, Mary P. Hall and John C. Mann; Montreal Transportation Co. Kingston Grain Ledgers 23 April-14 July 1900, 25 April-26 July 1900, 5 May-4 Aug 1900, 27 July 1900-14 June 1901, 27 July 1900-26 June 1901, 29 June-6 Dec 1901, 8 July 1901-29 May 1902, 12 May 1902-2 May 1903, 30 May 1902-4 May 1903, 14 July-12 Aug 1902, 25 March-6 Aug 1903, 25 April-27 November 1903, 13 June-7 Dec 1903, 28 Aug-7 Dec 1903, 21 May-17 Dec 1904, 17 Aug-24 November 1904, 5 Oct-24 November 1904, 27 April-28 Sept 1905, 29 April-23 June 1905, 15 June-26 Sept 1905, 28 Sept-6 Dec 1905, 22 April-28 May 1906, 10 July-29 Oct 1916; Montreal Transportation Co. Kingston Letter Book Sept 1916; Montreal Transportation Co. Ships' Logs Mary May 1918, Mary P. Hall 3 June 191830 November 1918, P.B. McNaughton May-Sept 1918 and D.G. Thomson 30 Aug-14 Dec 1919; Alpena Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database; American Bureau of Shipping Great Lakes Register 1919 and 1921; Bascom and Gillham Early Ships of Canada Steamship Lines; Bureau Veritas Great Lakes Register 1914; Canada List of Shipping 1910; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Green's Marine Directory of the Great Lakes 1916 and 1920; Inland Lloyd's Vessel Register Canadian Hulls 1897; Inland Lloyd's Vessel Register 1907; Lewis and Neilson The River Palace; Lloyd's Register 1905; Marine Museum of the Great Lakes Canadian Ship Registers on line; Mercantile Navy List 1919, 1921, 1923, 1925 and 1935; Milwaukee Public Library Great Lakes Marine Collection; Buffalo Evening News 24 and 27 November 1905; Canadian Railway & Marine World May 1907 and June 1917; Collingwood Bulletin 2 January 1919; Detroit Marine Historian October 1952; Marine Review 9 April 1896 and 24 March 1898; Toronto Mail & Empire 27 April 1896. 91 MELVIN S. BACON schooner barge (C 140964 ex U 90657). 1919-1921. Original: 614 tons gross, 584 tons net, 182' (registered). Capacity 825,000 board feet (all as of 1903). As remeasured Canadian 1919: 757 tons gross and 714 tons net, 185.58'. Crew of six. Launched by J. Squires (Lake Vessel Register 1878 said by Peter S. Crozier) at Vermillion Ohio on 29 July 1874. Three masts. Square stern. Donkey boiler. 1878 rated A1 and valued at $31,000. 1914 insurance rating = 85. 1919 value $29,713.30. 1919 rate = 90 coarse freight only [see definitions] and restricted to the waters between Port Colborne Ontario and Montreal. 1920 value $26,741.97. 1921 still rated 90 coarse freight only [see definitions] and then restricted to Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. Value $12,000. This barge was refastened in 1875 only a few months after being launched. In 1878 her owners were F. and E.R. Pelton of Vermillion Ohio. Her bottom was caulked in 1886. J.C. Gilchrist was her owner in 1897-1900. During 18981902 she was in the US Atlantic coastal coal trade before returning to the lakes. She went ashore and burned at Ashland Wisconsin on 24 September 1905. Despite being a constructive total loss, she was rebuilt. She was caulked in 1909. Her 1914-15 owner was W.E. Chapman. On 16 November 1915 she sank in collision with the steamer JOESPH SELLWOOD in the Detroit 157