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Alpena Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database; Association of Canadian Lake Underwriters Lake Vessel Register 1866, 1869 and 1873; Board of Lake Underwriters Lake Vessel Register 1878; Canada List of Shipping 1877, 1895, 1910, 1912 and 1915; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Classification of Lake Vessels and Barges 1871; Directory tof the Marine Interests of the Great Lakes 1884; Inland Lloyd's Vessel Register 1890; Marine Museum of the Great Lakes Canadian Ship Registers on line; Mercantile Navy List 1897; New Mills List; British Whig 17 and 25 November 1880; Kingston Daily News various; Marine Record 12 November 1885. 22 EMERSON steel tug (C 116592). 1904-1917. 276 tons gross, 188 tons net, 108.0'. She was launched at the Collingwood Shipyard on 18 November 1903. Yard #5. Electric light. Three-cylinder triple expansion = 90.8 nominal horsepower. Cost $48,000. 1906 value $43,000. 1908-1916 value $40,000. 1917 value $150,000. This large tug often towed the Standard Oil Co. barge S.O. No. 86 (U 116872, 954 tons gross) or towed coal barges from Port Dalhousie to Kingston and river ports. She went ashore at the east end of Main Duck Island in Lake Ontario near Kingston at 2345 on 10 September 1915 with the Montreal Transportation Co. barge QUEBEC in tow. She was sold French on 13 March 1917 for $200,000 and her Canadian registry was cancelled on 11 August. EMERSON became an auxiliary patrol vessel in the French Navy and was renamed PEAU ROUGE. She was sold Italian in 1925 and renamed PELLEROSA by her commercial owner Alfredo Neri of Livorno. In 1930 she was renamed FRATELLI NERI with the same owners. She became a coastal freighter in 1941 while owned by Luigi Bosco fu Antonio but was sunk during an Allied air raid at Savona on 12 August 1944 while under German control. She was refloated by the Germans but they scuttled her in January 1945 when they left. She was refloated again and renamed GIULIANOVA later in 1945. GIULIANOVA was stranded at Punta Sardegna in the Maddalena archipelago on 18 December 1947 and broke her back on 8 January 1948. Montreal Transportation Co. Annual Directors' Reports 1904, 1906, 1908, 1910 and 1913-18; Montreal Transportation Co. Charter (1917) Schedule A; Montreal Transportation Co. Directors' Minutes 19 January 1905 and 2 August 1917; Bascom and Gillham Early Ships of Canada Steamship Lines; Bureau Veritas Great Lakes Register 1914 and 1915; Canada List of Shipping 1912 and 1918; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Gillham Ships of Collingwood; Lewis and Neilson The River Palace; Lloyd's Register 1905 and 1916; Metcalfe Canvas and Steam on Quinte Waters; Miramar Ship Index; New Mills List; Detroit Marine Historian April 1952. 23 ESCORT wooden canal tug (C 97010). 1917-1921. 40 tons gross, 27 net, 44.66'. Built by William Ross at Port Colborne Ontario and launched on 4 April 1894. Non-condensing compound steeple engine =112 rated horsepower. 1917-18 value $7,500. 1919 value $6,562. 1920 value $5,906.25. 36