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owner as H.B. Smith of Owen Sound Ontario Smith was associated with Collingwood Shipbuilding and was on the board of Canada Steamship Lines. Lloyd's Register 1920-22 showed her as registered in Havana Cuba but did not list an owner. Canada Steamship Lines became her owner in 1920 and she was converted to a steamer by Davie Shipbuilding of Lauzon Quebec. The conversion included reducing her to St. Lawrence canal length. She was laid up at Kingston in 1930 and then in 1937 was sold to Chantiers Manseau of Sorel to be broken up. Instead, during 1939-40 she was converted to a tanker for Branch Lines and renamed PINEBRANCH. She served 1945-46 as EMPIRE STICKLEBACK chartered to the Ministry of War Transport at first in Canadian and then in British waters. After the war, she reverted to Branch Lines ownership and to the name PINEBRANCH. She was laid up at Sorel in 1955 and her hull was sunk as a wharf at Mulgrave Nova Scotia in 1961. The Minnesota Steamship Co. Co gave vessels names beginning in "M" and ending in "A", such as MALTA. The name THUNDER BAY followed the Canadian Northwest Steamships Co.'s policy of naming vessels after sites in the area of the Canadian lakehead [see definitions]. Montreal Transportation Co. Annual Directors' Reports 1918-20; Montreal Transportation Co. Directors' Minutes 10 September, 8 October and 31 December 1918 and 13 May, 16 September and 18 November 1919, 11 November 1921; Montreal Transportation Co. Charter (1917) Schedule B; Montreal Transportation Co. Ships' Logs Mary P. Hall 3 June 1918-30 November 1918 and Paipoonge 1917-18; Alpena Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database; American Bureau of Shipping Great Lakes Register 1921; American Shipmaster's Association Record of American and Foreign Shipping 1898; Bascom and Gillham Early Ships of Canada Steamship Lines; Bowling Green Great Lakes Vessels Online Index; Bureau Veritas Great Lakes Register 1913 and 1914; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Gillham & Boissenneault Branch Lines and Soconav Tankers of the Great Lakes; Green's Marine Directory of the Great Lakes 1916; Lloyd's Register 1920 and 1922; Mercantile Navy List 1918 and 1921; Merchant Vessels of the United States 1904; Milwaukee Public Library Great Lakes Marine Collection; Canadian Railway & Marine World October 1913 and November 1918; Scanner April 1978 and April 2015; Schell "Canada Steamship Lines" Belgian Shiplover 2/73. 122 TIGER river barge. 1883-1895. 202.45 tons register, 106.83'. Capacity 13,000 bushels. Built by George Tate at Montreal in 1863. No masts. Round stern. 1866 rated 1 and valued at $3,000. 1878 rated 2 and valued at $3,500. 1884 rated B1½. Rated not insurable in 1885. In 1887 she was rated coarse freight only [see definitions]. George Tate, her builder, was TIGER`s first owner and then in 1863-67 she was owned by Holcomb & Cowan. In 1869-71 she was owned by J.H. Henderson. She was repaired in 1875 and 1878. In 1877-83, she was owned by St. Lawrence & Chicago Forwarding (Coulthurst & McPhee) and came to Montreal Transportation Co. when they took over that firm. In 1891 she was damaged by fire (arson) near the Cotton Mill in Kingston's inner harbour. At 179