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1892" showing two masts but looking like she might have once had three. Round stern. 1882 rated A2 and valued at $8,000. 1884 rating A2. After repairs in 1890 rated A2½ and valued at $6,000. 1897 rated B1 and valued at $4,800. SENATOR was rebuilt by David P. Austin at Kingston in 1882. Fifty tons of her deckload of coal were lost in heavy seas off Oswego New York in July 1882 when she was in company with the Montreal Transportation Co. barge TORONTO. On 26 September 1883 she was in collision with the Kingston & Montreal Forwarding Co.'s barge FRONTENAC (C 33566, 282 tons register) in the Cornwall canal. FRONTENAC sank although she was later raised. SENATOR had a cargo of rails at the time while FRONTENAC was carrying 18,000 bushels of corn. SENATOR was called a river barge by 1884. She was repaired in 1890 and 1894. In Montreal Transportation Co. Directors' Reports and minutes 1902-05 she was shown as "on hand but of no value" and was laid up at Kingston. She was sold to Donnelly of Kingston for $450 and gradually broken up during 1913-14. Her registry was closed on 9 February 1915. Senator James Skead (1817-1884) was a businessman whose interests included the Caughnawaga Ship Canal Co. and the Upper Ottawa Steam Boat Co. J. Gaskin Letter Book 1884-86; Montreal Transportation Co. Barge Accounts 1900; Montreal Transportation Co. Directors' Minutes 26 June and 12 December 1907; Montreal Transportation Co. Kingston Grain Ledgers 1 Jan-1 November 1900, 24 Apr-22 June 1900, 25 April-26 July 1900; Alpena Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database; Bureau Veritas Great Lakes Register 1913 and 1914; Canada List of Shipping 1895 and 1910; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Directory of the Marine Interests of the Great Lakes 1884; Greenwood Namesakes 1910-1919; Inland Lloyd's Vessel Register Canadian Hulls 1890, 1892 and 1897; Marine Museum of the Great Lakes Canadian Ship Registers on line; Mercantile Navy List 1892 and 1913; British Whig 13 and 22 July 1882, 27 September 1883; Marine Record 7 April 1887; Marine Review 24 March 1898. 117 SIREN river barge (C 69599). 1906. 420 tons new measurement, 307.39 tons register, 137.3'. Capacity 24,000 bushels. Built at Point Levis Quebec by Guillaume Charland in 1874. Round stern. Scroll figurehead, the only Montreal Transportation Co. barge found to have had any such adornment. 1878 rated 1 and valued at $7,500. 1884 rated A2. 1888-1897 rated A2½. 1890 valued at $8,000. 1892 valued at $6,000. 1897 valued at $4,600. SIREN's first owner was François Xavier Marquis of Levis 1874-75, then Holcomb & Stewart 1876-78. Her 1879 owner was Rose & Co. of Montreal, followed by the Kingston & Montreal Forwarding Co. She was repaired in 1883 after being aground three miles below Cornwall Ontario, rebuilt at Portsmouth Ontario in 1888 and caulked in 1893. She was caulked and repaired in 1897, including a new keelson. The reason for this was that she had hit a rock on 14 175