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licensed for 300 passengers. She was rebuilt in 1855-56 at Anglin's yard in Kingston Canada West and shortened 1' to fit the Rideau Canal locks more easily. During 1855-58 her owners were H. & J. McLennan. She carried the Governor General to Kingston Mills on 30 July 1856. In July 1857 she was on the marine railway in Kingston. In 1858, she was owned by R. Moodie of Toronto and served as a tug 1859-64. On one Sunday in October 1864, she set out to tow a dredge from Toronto to Hamilton Canada West but had to cut it loose and it drifted ashore. The Kingston Daily News commented "... the propriety of allowing a dredge to be taken out of harbour on the Sabbath was much animadverted [sic] upon". The Richelieu Co. was her owner in 1865. She was damaged by fire at Sorel Canada East on 9 April 1867. In 1871-82, she was owned by Anglin of Kingston, but was serving as a passenger vessel between St. Francis and Sorel in Quebec. Anglin rebuilt her in 1876. Between 1898 and 1910 (when she was broken up), she was owned by the Richelieu and Ontario Co. Alpena Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database; Association of Canadian Lake Underwriters Lake Vessel Register 1866 and 1869; Canada List of Shipping 1877 and 1910; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Flynn's Directory 1857; Inland Lloyd's Vessel Register Canadian Hulls 1890; Mercantile Navy List 1882 and 1897; New Mills List; Kingston Daily News 27 March, 18 April and 18 May 1855, 18 April and 1 August 1856, 7 July 1857 and 20 May 1858. 26 FRANK E. PEREW wooden tug (C 70287 ex U 9154). 1883-1886. 43.02 tons gross, 24 register, 72.6'. Built at Buffalo New York by Van Slyke & Notter (Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database and Lake Vessel Register 1878 both said R. Mills & Co., while Classification of Lake Vessels and Barges 1871 and Marine Interests of the Great Lakes 1884 both said Mills & Walsh) in 1867. Metal-sheathed bow. Round stern. Single-cylinder engine = 110 rated horsepower. 1869 rated A2 and valued at $10,000. 1884-88 rated A2½. The tug PEREW was aground on Bird Island Reef near Buffalo in April 1869. In June that year she was damaged by collision at Buffalo and then she lost three scows in a gale on Lake Erie that October. She was again damaged by collision at Buffalo and lost her pilothouse while towing near Buffalo in 1871 in the same or another incident. She lost an anchor at the mouth of the Niagara River the same year. Her 1871 owners were Hand and David of Buffalo. In 1874 her owners, Maytham Bros., sold her to the Montreal Towing Association for $10,000. The tug, her captain and crew all came to the St. Lawrence and Chicago Forwarding Co. at Kingston in 1877. She blew the head of her cylinder when she was just above the Edwardsburg Canal on the St. Lawrence in 1879 and the three barges she was towing then went down the rapids themselves. The tug was towed to the Kingston Foundry by the St. Lawrence & Chicago Forwarding Co. tug JESSIE HALL for 39