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repairs. She got a new stem at Portsmouth Ontario in the winter of 1881-82. She came to Montreal Transportation Co. in 1883 when they took over St. Lawrence & Chicago Forwarding Co. Repairs at Kingston in 1883-84 included a new boiler, which was said to be not as good as her previous one. She was again on the ways at Kingston in 1885 and she got more repairs in 1886 before being sold to a Morrisburg Ontario dredging firm. She was resold to Port Arthur the next year and was put in a Buffalo New York dry dock for "light" repairs en route to the west. Her owner from 1888 to 1901 was Archibald Stewart of Montreal. She was owned by the Dominion Ministry of Railways and Canals 1904-31 and was removed from the register on 7 September 1932. Frank Perew was a prominent Buffalo shipowner. J. Gaskin letterbook 1884-86; Alpena Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database; Association of Canadian Lake Underwriters Lake Vessel Register 1869; Board of Lake Underwriters Lake Vessel Register 1878; Canada List of Shipping 1877, 1895, 1910, 1915, 1918 and 1931; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Classification of Lake Vessels and Barges 1871; Directory of the Marine Interests of the Great Lakes 1884; Inland Lloyd's Vessel Register Canadian Hulls 1890, 1892 and 1897; Marine Directory of the Great Lakes 1888; Marine Museum of the Great Lakes Canadian Ship Registers on line; Mercantile Navy List 1882, 1897, 1904, 1907, 1923 and 1925; Merchant Vessels of the United States 1871 and 1873; New Mills List; British Whig 14 and 15 August 1879, 24 March 1881, 20 March 1885, 5 April 1886 and 4 June 1887; Buffalo Commercial Advertiser 1 August 1874; Kingston Daily News 1 May and 1 October 1869, 1 March and 1 November 1871, 29 May 1876, 27 May 1878 and 16 August 1879; Marine Review 2 June 1887. 27 GEORGE A. GRAHAM ex MARINA steel bulk carrier (C 131051 ex U 92282). 1917. Original: 2,431.72 tons gross, 1,992.03 net. As of 1913 her Canadian measurements were: 2,409 tons gross and 1,577 tons register, 292.0' (between perpendiculars), 310.5' (overall). Launched on 14 March 1891 by the Chicago Shipbuilding Co. Yard #1. Double bottom. Round stern. Lapped plate hull. Electric light. Her pilot house was aft of her raised fo'c'stle and her foremast rose out of the top of the pilot house. Triple expansion = 1,200 indicated horsepower, 241 nominal horsepower. 1914 insurance rating = 95/100. 1917 value $210,000. James Pickands of Cleveland was this steamer's first owner. She was ashore in fog near Two Harbors Minnesota on 1 August 1891 and ran aground again in fog at Whitefish Point in Lake Superior on 17 August 1893. By 1898 her owner was the Minnesota Steamship Co. (a subsidiary of Minnesota Iron Mining Co., Pickands Mather managers). She stranded near Raspberry Island in Lake Superior in 1898, damaging 175 bottom plates. During repairs at Lorain Ohio she got some new bottom plates and frames. Her next owner was Federal Steel in 1900. That firm was taken over by US Steel in 1901 and her ownership was transferred to their subsidiary Pittsburgh Steamship Co. She was sold to Lakewood Steamship Co. (C.L. Hutchinson managers) in 1910 and 40