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Bascom and Gillham Early Ships of Canada Steamship Lines; Canada List of Shipping 1920; Merchant Vessels of the United States 1891; Miramar Ship Index; New Mills List; Canadian Railway & Marine World June 1920 and March 1922; Detroit Free Press 16 October 1900. MARIE BARNARD auxiliary wooden five-masted schooner (C 138690) (signal letters TMSN). 1917-20. 1,476 tons gross, 1,327 tons under deck, 1,235 tons net, 243'. Launched on 29 September 1917 by Wallace Shipyard (later North Vancouver Shipyard) in North Vancouver British Columbia. Yard #97. Hardwood treenails. Salted. Electric light. Two 4-cylinder Bolinder semidiesels 160 brake horse power (also noted as 94 nominal horsepower). 1920 rated 12A1 by Lloyd's. Montreal Transportation Co. did not own MARIE BARNARD but rather held $95,000 worth of bonds on her. She was owned by the Canadian West Coast Navigation Co. that was organized by R.M. Wolvin. She was one of a group of 12 similar vessels called the "MABLE BROWN" type that were designed by J.H. Price. These vessels were built to export timber and coal from BC to South America and Australasia. The demand for the service was due to the wartime shortage of shipping. They cost about $150,000 each. MARIE BARNARD was the last of a group built for Canadian West Coast Navigation but others of essentially the same design were built in British Columbia for foreign owners. The Americans built similar vessels. The engines for these Canadian-built vessels were to come from Sweden and there were inevitably delays in their arrival in BC. It was forecast that several of them, including MARIE BARNARD, would make their first voyages under sail alone. She made at least one trip to Australia in 1918 with a cargo of timber and apparently returned to San Francisco with general cargo. She cleared Astoria Oregon for Shanghai, presumably with a cargo of timber, on 23 January 1919. Montreal Transportation Co. sold their bonds in 1920 at par ($95,000), the same year that she was sold to Hadzikyriakos Bros. of Piræus Greece and renamed AGAPI. In 1925 she had a new owner, G. Goulandris. She was broken up in 1926. Most of the MABEL BROWN type schooners, including MARIE BARNARD, were named after the wives of various directors of the owning company, all of whom had associations with Canada Steamship Lines. Montreal Transportation Co. director's minutes 11 January 1921; Canada List of Shipping 1918; Greene Personality Shipping of British Columbia; Lloyd's Register 1921, 1924 and 1925; Miles Slow Boat on Rum Row, Miramar Ship Index; Canadian Railway and Marine World October and November 1917; Scanner Summer 1981; Sydney Morning Herald 21 May 1918. 59