Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Montreal Transportation Co., 1868-1921, p. 56

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The French renamed her FINISTERE and put her under the management of Compagnie Generale Transatlantique (The French Line). She sailed on 9 June 1918 from Cardiff Wales to Bordeaux France with a cargo of coal and was presumed missing on 11 June 1918. She had a crew of 23 on board. Montreal Transportation Co. Annual Directors' Reports 1908, 1910 and 1912-16; Montreal Transportation Co. Directors' Minutes 7 July 1907, 5 August 1908, 17 May and 21 September 1915, 16 February and 12 May 1916, 18 January 1917; Montreal Transportation Co. Kingston Grain Ledgers 1 May-24 November 1913, 22 April-31 Oct 1914, 22 June-14 November 1914, 8 Oct-27 November 1915; Montreal Transportation Co. Kingston Letter Book June 1914; Bowling Green Great Lakes Vessels Online Index; Bureau Veritas Great Lakes Register 1914 and 1915; Canada List of Shipping 1912; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Devendorf Great Lakes Bulk Carriers 1869-1985; Greenwood Namesakes 1910-1919; Lloyd's Register 1910 and 1912; Milwaukee Public Library Great Lakes Marine Collection; Miramar Ship Index; New Mills List; Salmon British Built Canadian Vessels; University of Detroit Mercy Dowling website; Canadian Railway and Marine World October 1908 and August 1914; Marine Review February 1916. 40 LAURA GRACE wooden tug (C 107171). 1918. 86 tons gross, 58 tons net, 76'. Launched at Collingwood Ontario on 3 June 1901. In 1914 she had a license for 100 passengers. Compound steeple engine (1890) from MARY ANN (87 tons gross), 16 rated horsepower. This tug was built for the Pigeon River Lumber Co. of Port Arthur Ontario who almost immediately sold her to James Whalen's Lake Superior Tug Co. Montreal Transportation Co. bought her from them for $24,500. She was lost on Grandview Beach near Charlotte (Rochester) New York on 6 December 1918. All nine men and a woman on board were saved. Montreal Transportation Co. Annual Directors' Reports 1919-20; Montreal Transportation Co. Cash Book Laura Grace May-Dec 1918; Montreal Transportation Co. Directors' Minutes 14 May 1918; Montreal Transportation Co. Engineer's Log India 25 April-1 June 1918; Montreal Transportation Co. Ship's Log Mary P. Hall; Bascom and Gillham Early Ships of Canada Steamship Lines; Bowling Green Great Lakes Vessels Online Index; Bureau Veritas Great Lakes Register 1919; Canada List of Shipping 1910, 1912 and 1915; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Green's Marine Directory of the Great Lakes 1920; Marine Museum of the Great Lakes Canadian Ship Registers on line; New Mills List; Detroit Marine Historian September 1952; Scanner February 1979. McNAUGHTON see P.B. McNAUGHTON McVITTIE see A. McVITTIE MANN see JOHN C. MANN 41 MANOLA steel bulk freighter (C 141836 ex U 92170) (signal letters TPSJ). 19191920. Original: 2,326 tons gross, 1,836 tons net. In 1915: 2,725.99 tons gross, 1,835.86 net, 282.4'. In 1919-23: 2,404 tons gross, 1,333 net, 249.7'. Post 1923: 3,100 tons gross, 1,671 net, 356'. Launched on 21 January 1890 56

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