Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Montreal Transportation Co., 1868-1921, p. 24

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$15,000. 1871 rated A2 and valued at $11,000. 1873 rated B1 and valued at $17,500. 1882 rated A1½. In 1863-67 BRUNO's owners were R. & J. Allan of Montreal, an ocean shipping firm always looking for lake cargoes that could connect to their ships to and from the UK, and there may have also been an Ogilvie Flour connection (see below). In 1864, she was managed by Rudston & Son. Chaffey and Black formed a line in 1864, including BRUNO, to run Montreal - Chicago. She was laid up in 1865 and was stranded on 10 November that year while under tow. She was rebuilt in 1866. She was in a collision at Chicago in 1867 and her cabins were damaged. In 1868-70, she was owned by Hugh McLennan and John Gaskin. John Gaskin (1840-1908) was the master and joint owner of the BRUNO in 1871-73 and then "outside manager" of Montreal Transportation Co. in Kingston until 1901. This meant that not only was the day to day business of the firm in his hands, but also the construction and maintenance of vessels. He was the owner of the 97 ton schooner MORNING STAR in 1878. Prominent in the Orange Lodge that supported John A. Macdonald at the polls, he served as an alderman in Kingston and was mayor in 1883. She was repaired on the Kingston Marine Railway in July 1868. In December 1868, she was hauled out on there again because she had broken her "wheel" (propeller) due to low water in the Matilda Canal below Prescott Ontario the previous month. She spent that winter in Kingston and did not leave the shipyard until late April 1869. She was back again for one day that June to replace her propeller again. She grounded in the St. Clair River flats in 1869 while running Kingston -Chicago. She was on the Kingston Marine Railway again in September 1869 for repairs to her shaft. She sank in the Welland Canal in June 1870 due to a leak while loaded with grain and salt. Repairs were made in Buffalo. She sprang another leak during a storm on Lake Huron while on passage Kincardine Ontario - Montreal in October 1870. She was beached on Chantry Island near Southampton Ontario on Lake Huron, where she had been loading grain, on 31 November 1870. Reported as a constructive total loss, she was insured for $10,000 at that point but she was salvaged and rebuilt at St. Catharines Ontario. McLennan and Gaskin then sold her to C.E. Jaques. She holed her bottom in the Welland Canal on 14 June 1871, smashed the lower gates of Lock 15 in the Cornwall Canal on 7 August and was in collision with the Canadian mail steamer CORSICAN (1,203 tons gross) that year. She struck bottom in the Galops Rapids on 28 October 1872. She sank and was raised with the help of the Kingston tug LADY FRANKLIN (C 61183, 32 tons gross). BRUNO had been carrying a cargo of flour to Montreal at the time. She was on the Marine Railway at Portsmouth Ontario for extensive repairs 24

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