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1927 still shows Maitland Sand and Gravel as owners. She went aground and was abandoned at Little Burnt Island Harbour on Manitoulin Island in 1926. She was not removed from the register until 1940. Montreal Transportation Co. Annual Directors' Reports 1918-20; Montreal Transportation Co. Charter (1917) Schedule B; Montreal Transportation Co. Directors' Minutes 14 April 1917 and 11 November 1921; Montreal Transportation Co. Kingston Grain Ledgers 20 July-18 November 1917, 30 Aug-16 November 1917, 6 May-15 November 1918; Alpena Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database; American Bureau of Shipping Great Lakes Register 1919; American Shipmaster's Association Record of American and Foreign Shipping 1898; Bascom and Gillham Early Ships of Canada Steamship Lines; Beeson Steam Vessels of The Northwstern Lakes; Bowling Green Great Lakes Vessels Online Index; Bureau Veritas Great Lakes Register 1913, 1914 and 1915; Canada List of Shipping 1924, 1925 and 1927; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Greenwood Namesakes 1930-1955; Lewis and Neilson The River Palace; Mercantile Navy List 1923; Merchant Vessels of the United States 1896; Miramar Ship Index; New Mills List; University of Detroit Mercy Dowling website; Canadian Railway & Marine News June, July and October 1922; Detroit Marine Historian September 1949; Scanner December 1972 and April 200;, Schell "Canada Steamship Lines" Belgian Shiplover 2/73,. 39 KINMOUNT steel canaller (C 128218) (signal letters HNCG). 1908-1916. 2,112 tons gross, 1,598 net, 249.0' (between perpendiculars). Launched by A. McMillan & Son at Dumbarton Scotland on 3 August 1908. Yard #421. Double bottom. Electric light. Her Pilot House was on a raised fo'c'stle but she did not have a raised quarterdeck. Triple expansion = 950 indicated horsepower, 92 nominal horsepower. 1908 value $126,000. 1910 value $119,000. 1912 value $118,000. 1913 value $116,000. 1914-15 value $115,000. 1914 insurance rating = 100/100. KINMOUNT was registered at Glasgow Scotland until 1912. She had originally been laid down for Wheeler et al of Cleveland Ohio but they could not make the payments. Montreal Transportation Co. bought her on the stocks for $25,250. She crossed the Atlantic with a cargo of ingot moulds for Dominion Iron & Steel at Sydney Nova Scotia. She was then to take a cargo of rails to the Canadian lakehead [see definitions] before entering the grain trade. During the summer of 1914, she was part of a corporate contract to carry rails from Sydney to Port Arthur for the Canadian Northern Railway. She was chartered to Dominion Coal for the Sydney - St. Lawrence traffic in 1915 @ $7,000 per month and could trade as far as Saint John New Brunswick for $500 more per month. She was chartered to the Inter-American Steamship Co. of New York City from mid November 1915 to the last half of May 1916 @ $8,000 per month. She struck bottom in the Welland Canal in November 1915 but was repaired in 1916. She was next chartered to Dominion Coal from mid May 1916 to mid-November 1916 @ $16,000 a month. Following that, she was sold to the Gov't of France for $408,096 with delivery to be on 4 January 1917. 55