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value $15,000. 1914 insurance rating 90. 1915-16 value $14,000 ($1,600 in improvements 1916). 1917 value $26,000. 1918 value $22,750. 1919 value $20,150. 1920 value $18,638.75. Sylvester Neelon & James Norris of St. Catharines owned SIR S.L. TILLEY 1884-96 and ran her as part of "Merchant's Lake and River Steamship Co. Line" to Duluth Minnesota She hit a lighthouse in the mouth of the Detroit River in July of 1889. From 1896 to 1900, her owners were R.O. and A.B. Mackay of Hamilton Ontario. Marine Review reported on 30 December 1897 that she would be lengthened 60' that winter. The work was done by Polson Iron Works of Toronto. She burned 7 miles off Fairport Ohio on 26 August 1899, grounded and was abandoned. She was rebuilt in Toronto 1899-1900 and renamed. Her new owner 1900-04 was James Carruthers. Repairs were done in 1902. Her coal cargo caught fire at Sault Ste. Marie Ontario on 25 October 1903 and she burned down to her main deck. The hull was towed to Port Dalhousie Ontario and Montreal Transportation Co. then bought what was left of her. She was rebuilt as a bulk carrier (cut down to main deck amidships) and lengthened at Kingston in 1904 "[Montreal Transportation Co.] expect to use her in other employment than carrying grain". Montreal Transportation Co. was offered $30,000 for her in 1905 but turned it down (although she was carried on the company books with a value of only $20,000). ADVANCE was repaired in 1906. She was running in the "Merchant's and Montreal Lake Superior Line" in 1907. On 17 September of that year she was held up at Thorold on the Welland Canal by claims that four of her crew were owed back wages. She broke her rudder and ran aground at the head of the Galops Rapids in August 1909 while upbound in the St. Lawrence with a cargo of pig iron. This steamer was in a three-way collision with the canaller FAIRFAX (C 111966, 1,367 tons gross) and Montreal Transportation Co.'s SIMLA in the Lachine Canal on 21 August 1916 and was then repaired. Negotiations to sell her took place in 1918 but nothing came of them. ADVANCE was repaired in 1919. She was transferred to Canada Steamship Lines ownership in 1921 as part of the final winding up of the Montreal Transportation Co. fleet and then sold to Reid Wrecking of Sarnia Ontario in 1923 (by that time associated with Canada Steamship Lines). She stranded near Alexandria Bay New York on 21 November 1923. The vessel was laid up beginning in 1924 or 1925. She was sold to C.H. Webb of Toronto in 1927 and then resold to W. & R. Bingley of Cornwall Ontario. She was in collision with a Welland Canal bridge in 1927 and then was wrecked in a storm on Manitoulin Island on 5 December that year and was declared a constructive total loss. She was broken up on site in 1935. 16