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tons net. Iron frame. Originally rigged with foresail and jib and had one mast. Round stern. She was built at Hamilton Ontario by A.M. Robertson and launched on 2 September 1882. Original machinery was a fore & aft compound engine = 200 indicated horsepower. 1918 received an 1890 fore and aft compound engine, 465 indicated horsepower, 67 rated horsepower. Cost $80,000. 1892 noted as required repairs, had no anchors or chains. 1918 value $25,000. 1919 value $91,491.01, insurance rating 90. 1920 value $84,629.19. Thomas Myles, a Hamilton coal dealer, was the original owner of this steamer. She was managed by Hamilton shipowner R.O. Mackay, and traded Kingston Ontario - Duluth Minnesota via intermediate ports as part of the "Western Express Line". Her high-pressure cylinder exploded while on passage from Port Arthur Ontario to Duluth on 19 October 1885, killing two men. There was $1,500 in damage. She stranded at Thunder Bay while on passage from McKay's Harbour Ontario on the Bruce Penninsula to Fort William Ontario on 18 September 1886 and grounded on a shoal at Kingston on 2 November 1886. That shoal, off the Murney Tower, was previously known as the "Allen Shoal" but has ever since been known as the "Myles Shoal". After the grounding she barely made it into Kingston harbour where she sank at a wharf. She was subsequently salved in March of 1887 despite having being declared a constructive total loss. On 26 September 1888, she hit a pier at Portage Lake Michigan. She was damaged at Hamilton on 17 April 1889 when the crown of her boiler overheated and fell in. On 26 September 1889, she was aground in the Portage Ship Canal. In 1890, she was trading from Georgian Bay ports to Tonawanda New York with cargoes of timber. She lost her rudder in Georgian Bay on 3 December 1893 while on passage from Fort William to Owen Sound Ontario where she was repaired. Her bottom was caulked in 1894. In 1895, she was running for the Canadian Navigation Co. but was still owned by Myles. She blew a cylinder head on 21 August 1895 in the Lachine Canal. She was repaired and rebuilt at Kingston in 1895-96. She was driven ashore on the Three Star Shoal above Sault Ste. Marie on 4 November 1898 while on passage from Fort William to Depot Harbour Ontario with grain. She was pulled off by the tug TELEGRAM (C 85497, 198 tons gross) but sustained damage to her rudder and stern post. MYLES then went to Collingwood Dry Dock for repairs. In 1897, her owner was Charles A. Myles, possibly the son of Thomas. She was sold to the Myles Transportation Co. on 30 November 1899. R.O. Mackay and Charles A. Myles et al invested in this company. She grounded in Georgian Bay on 8 June 1901 while approaching Depot Harbour on passage from Fort William with a cargo of grain. She was salved by Playfair and again repaired at Collingwood Dry Dock. In 1901, her owner was the Cataract Ice 28