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her back. Her ownership was transferred to Canada Steamship Lines in 1921 as part of the final winding up of the Montreal Transportation Co. fleet. She was a constructive total loss after she hit a Welland Canal lock gate, broke through to the lock below and sank on 16 June 1922. There was $12,000 damage done to the canal. Although INDIA was refloated four days later, she was abandoned to the underwriters. She was bought in 1923 by Reid Wrecking of Sarnia Ontario (by then associated with Canada Steamship Lines) and repaired (but the Canada List of Shipping 1924 shows her still owned by Canada Steamship Lines). She was owned by the India Navigation Co. (managers Crawford & Co.) 1923-25 for service as a collier. "Crawford" was Crawford Fuels of Kingston. According to Bascom & Gillham, she often delivered coal to Toronto. She was then laid up at Kingston. INDIA was returned to service 1925-28 by her next owners the Ramsey Steamship Co. of Sault Ste. Marie Ontario. On 4 September 1928, she stranded near West St. Mary Island in the North Channel 8 miles east of Little Current Ontario with a cargo of wood pulp. She caught fire under her boiler the next day and burned to the waterline. Montreal Transportation Co. Annual Directors' Reports 1914-20; Montreal Transportation Co. Charter (1917) Schedule A; Montreal Transportation Co. Directors' Minutes 3 July 1914, 10 August and 10 September 1918 and 11 November 1921; Montreal Transportation Co. Engineers' Logs India 4 Sept-4 Dec 1917 and 25 April-1 June 1918 and R.G.A. Weaver 1 May14 Oct 1917; Montreal Transportation Co. Kingston Grain Ledgers 20 July-18 November 1917, 30 Aug-16 November 1917; Alpena Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database; American Bureau of Shipping Great Lakes Register 1919; Bascom and Gillham Early Ships of Canada Steamship Lines; Bowling Green Great Lakes Vessels Online Index; Bureau Veritas Great Lakes Register 1914; Canada Annual Report of Department of Marine and Fisheries 1915-16; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Devendorf Great Lakes Bulk Carriers 18691985; Canada List of Shipping 1912, 1918, 1924, 1925 and 1927; Greenwood Namesakes 1920-1929; Lloyd's Register 1905, 1919 and 1921; Mercantile Navy List 1923 and 1925; Milwaukee Public Library Great Lakes Marine Collection; Miramar Ship Index; New Mills List; Swainson A Shipping Empire: Garden Island; University of Detroit Mercy Dowling website; Canadian Railway & Marine News July 1922; Detroit Marine Historian April 1952; Marine Record 17 and 24 August 1899; Marine Review 15 January 1899; Scanner November 1972, April 1976 and December 1981; Schell "Canada Steamship Lines" Belgian Shiplover 2/73. 34 JAMES A. WALKER screw wooden tug (C 92383). 1887-1899. 170 "new" tons, 184 tons gross, 98 net, 105.6'. Launched at Kingston by Henry Roney (normally the Calvin's builder) in August 1887. Had a steel keelson and steel straps outside her frames. Steel boiler, fore & aft compound engine possibly taken from the Montreal Transportation Co. tug H.F. BRONSON. Cost $25,000. In 1890 was rated A1 and valued at $20,000. WALKER was designed by Harry W. Granger of Detroit and was described in the Marine Record 1887 as the "most powerful tug in Canada". She broke her propeller above Lachine Quebec in 1887. In May 1888, she received a new iron propeller that was manufactured at the Kingston Locomotive Works but 50