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at $12,000. 1869 rated A1 and valued at $8,500. 1873 rated A2 and valued at $8,000. 1873 again rated A2 and valued at $7,500. 1878 rated B1 and valued at $7,000. 1884 rated A2. In 1890 she was again rated A2 and valued at $6,800. 1897 rated B1 and valued at $3,900. 1903 value $10,000. 1906 value $8,000. 1908 value $7,000. 1910-12 value $7,500. 1913 value $7,000. 1914 value $6,500. 1915 value $6,000. 1916 value $5,000. 1917 value $6,000. 1918 value $5,250. 1919 value $4,500. 1920 value $4,050. Chaffey Brothers built GLIDE for themselves but she was sold to M.G. Kinghorn (a director of Montreal Transportation Co.) in 1868. She broke her shaft in August 1869 and was repaired at Brockville. Ownership was transferred from Kinghorn to Montreal Transportation Co. in 1869. GLIDE broke her piston near Quebec Head (the foot of Wolfe Island) in 1873 and was repaired at the Kingston Foundry. One of the barges she was towing was in collision with another tow near Sister Light 18 miles above Brockville in the fall of 1875. GLIDE was lashed to the Montreal Transportation Co. tug H.F. BRONSON at the time. She was rebuilt in 1875 and got a new boiler and engine by Kingston Foundry in 1882 at a cost of $5,000-$6,000. The tug was almost swamped by a heavy sea off Oswego New York in July that year, and lost part of her propeller on a rock near Gananoque Ontario in October. She ran aground in 1884; both her captain and mate were asleep at the time. In 1886 John Gaskin described GLIDE as "...our most economical boat ... and she will be the last boat laid up [for the season] in the company". Her propeller was replaced on the Davis floating dry dock in Kingston during the winter of 1886-87. She got a new stem, another new propeller etc. in the same dock in 1889. She was rebuilt in 1907. The tug GLIDE was anchored on Lac St. Francis in a nest with the Montreal Transportation Co. barges UNGAVA, DORCHESTER and BRIGHTON at night on 12 November 1908 when DORCHESTER and BRIGHTON were hit by the steamship CUBA (C 71153, 647 tons). CUBA, on passage Oswego - Quebec City with a cargo of coal, did not stop. The subsequent Board of Inquiry lamented the lack of qualified personnel, including CUBA's pilot. GLIDE was rebuilt again in 1918. In April 1920, GLIDE was sold to J.E. Russell Construction of Toronto for $7,000. She was rebuilt for the third time in 1925. Russell sold her to National Sand Co. of Welland sometime between 1925 and 1927. She was abandoned near Port Dalhousie about 1929 (Bascom and Gillham said about 1933) but was retained on the registry to at least 1948. Lake Vessel Register 1874 and some issues of Kingston newspapers spelled her name "Glyde". 46