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Marine World June 1917); Detroit Marine Historian October 1952; Detroit Post & Tribune 2 December 1879; Marine Review 14 March 1901. 98 NADINE steel river barge (C 107681). 1906-1920. 526 tons gross, 484 tons register. Capacity 38,000 bushels of wheat = 1,140 tons on a 10.7' draft. 166.0'. Built by Bertram's Engineering Works of Toronto in 1898. Yard #39. Steel with wood-sheathed bottom and bilges. Steam pumps and winches. 1906-08 value $10,000. 1910-16 value $14,000 ($850 in improvements 1916). 1914 insurance rating 90 restricted to the St. Lawrence River. 1917 value $30,000. 1918 value $25,500. 1919 value $21,000. 1920 value $18,900. 1921 rating 80 restricted to the St. Lawrence and on the Montreal Transportation Co. books for $36,000. NADINE's first owner, the Prescott Elevator Co. Ltd., went bankrupt. By 1904 her owner was the St. Lawrence Terminal Co. Ltd. of Quebec City. Montreal Transportation Co. bought her from the Great Lakes & St. Lawrence Transportation Co. She underwent large repairs in 1918 and was bought by Canada Steamship Lines in 1920 for $41,000. In 1924-31 she was owned by Weddell Constr. of Trenton Ontario who then sold her to her final owner R.A. & J. McLean of Sault Ste. Marie Ontario She foundered near Brush Point in the St. Mary's River on 7 November 1945 after a collision with the bulk carrier CLARENCE B. RANDALL (U 243412. 7,176 tons gross). She was raised and sold for scrap in 1946. All the barges of the Prescott Elevator Co. carried the first names of women. Greenwood said that this one was named for Nadine Florence Ingram Ketterson (1877-1928), the wife of Keith Ketterson who was apparently a nephew of one of the partners in the firm. Montreal Transportation Co. Annual Directors' Reports 1906, 1908, 1910 and 1913-20; Montreal Transportation Co. Charter (1917) Schedule A; Montreal Transportation Co. Directors' Minutes 10 April 1906 and 22 June 1920; Montreal Transportation Co. Engineer's Log R.G.A. Weaver 1 May-14 Oct 1917; Montreal Transportation Co. Kingston Grain Ledgers 19 July-22 November 1905, 28 Sept-6 Dec 1905, 29 November 1912-8 Oct 1914, 17 May-24 Oct 1917, 20 July-18 November 1917, 22 May-24 November 1918; Montreal Transportation Co. Kingston Letter Book May 1914; Montreal Transportation Co. Ships' Logs Mary May 1918, Mary P. Hall 3 June 1918-30 November 1918, P.B. McNaughton May-Sept 1918, 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; Bureau Veritas Great Lakes Register 1914 and 1915; Canada List of Shipping 1910; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Greenwood Namesakes 1930-1955; Mercantile Navy List 1904, 1923-25, 1931, 1933 and 1935; Detroit Marine Historian October 1952; Scanner October 1971. 99 NEBRASKA river barge (C 70294). 1883-1905. 423 tons new measurement, 387.56 "unit tons". 151.5'. Capacity 24,000 bushels. She was launched by F. Cantin at Quebec City in June 1874. No masts. Round stern. 1878 rated 1 out of a possible 3 and valued at $8,500. 1884 rated B1. After reconstruction 1890 she was rated A2 and valued at $8,000. 1892 rated A2½, valued at 164