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October 1897. She was aground again near Kincardine Ontario on Lake Huron in November 1898, again at Port Colborne Ontario on 16 May 1899 and again at other places on 13 November 1900 and 17 September 1901. She sailed from Fort William Ontario at the head of Lake Superior on the 20th November 1902 on passage to Sault Ste. Marie Ontario en route to Midland Ontario with a cargo of 85,000 bushels of grain. She then briefly ran aground. After returning to Fort William, she sailed again on the 21st. She disappeared near Passage Island the next day. 20-22 lives were lost. She is famous as a ghost vessel on Lake Superior. Her registration was closed on 31 December 1902. A lifejacket was recovered in 1904. Montreal Transportation Co. Kingston Grain Ledgers 23 April-14 July 1900, 25 April-26 July 1900, 27 July 1900-14 June 1901, 27 July 1900-26 June 1901, 29 June-6 Dec 1901, 8 July 1901-29 May 1902, 30 May 1902-4 May 1903, 14 July-12 Aug 1902, 12 May 1902-2 May 1903; Bowling Green Great Lakes Vessels Online Index; Brookes Hamilton Harbour 1826-1901; Canada List of Shipping 1895; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Devendorf Great Lakes Bulk Carriers 1869-1985; Gillham Ships in Trouble Great Lakes 1850-1930; Inland Lloyd's Vessel Register Canadian Hulls 1897; Lewis and Neilson The River Palace; Marine Museum of the Great Lakes Canadian Ship Registers on line; Mercantile Navy List 1897; Miramar Ship Index; New Mills List; University of Detroit Mercy Dowling website; Detroit Marine Historian January 1955; Whig Standard 1 January 1972. BARNARD see MARIE BARNARD 8 BARTLETT steel tug (C 124268) (signal letters HMPC). 1908-1917. 328 tons gross, 41 net, 124.9'. Launched on 19 March 1908 by Greenock and Grangemouth Dockyard in Scotland. Yard #306. Electric light. Triple expansion = 1,100 rated horsepower. 1908 value $65,000. 1910-12 value $61,000. 1913-16 value $60,000. 1917 value $150,000. BARTLETT took 14 days to cross the Atlantic to Canada on her maiden voyage. In September 1912, she was towing AUGUSTUS when the barge went aground on Salmon Point in Prince Edward County Ontario. In November 1913, she was one of three tugs (along with Calvin's CORNWALL and FRONTENAC) that failed to pull HECLA (U 95684, later Montreal Transportation Co.'s CAPTAIN DAN) off a reef below Ogdensburg New York. This tug was chartered to the Canadian Government east coast patrol service in 1915 @ $125 a day + insurance and fuel. This charter brought in a total of $27,062.50. She was sold to French National Railway (French Rlwys.) for $230,000 in 1917, to be turned over after docking and any necessary repairs. Her 1918 managers were Soc. Maritime Nationale of Paris and her name was changed to TENAX. She was wrecked 2 nautical miles west of Barfleur France on 3 December 1921 while en route from Antwerp Belgium to Cherbourg France. When first ordered the tug was to have been named "Sterling". By the time she went into service she was named after Bartlett McLennan, Hugh McLennan's son. Bartlett was chairman of the board of Montreal 21