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of the United States 1790-1868); Marine Museum of the Great Lakes Canadian Ship Registers on line; New Mills List. MOUCH-A-FEU see FIRE FLY. NEEBING steel canaller (C 118618) (signal letters VFCJ). 1917-1919. 1,879 tons gross, 1,155 tons net, 247.6' (between perpendiculars). Launched on 27 July 1903 and finished that August by Armstrong Whitworth at the Low Walker yard in Newcastle-on-Tyne England. Yard #745. Three masts. Had been fitted with wireless by 1920. Three-cylinder triple expansion = 162 rated horsepower. Registered in Newcastle until 1925, NEEBING was one of the very first vessels built to the maximum dimensions that would fit the enlarged St. Lawrence canals. Her first owner was Neebing Navigation (G.T. Marks) but in 1906 she was transferred to the parent Canadian Northwest Steamship Co. of Fort William Ontario. NEEBING was held up at Welland Ontario on 1 June 1908 for non-payment of wages. She was requisitioned in 1915 for British salt-water service with Swift Steamship Co. Ltd. as managers. She came to Montreal Transportation Co. ownership when they took over Canadian Northwest Steamships on 13 April 1917 but she remained under British management and never returned to Canada. In 1919-22 she was owned by Silverdale Steamship Co. (Stephen Jones manager) but was leased by Soviet interests in 1921 and then was purchased by them on 1 September 1922. Her 1923-24 owner was Arcos Ltd. of Newcastle (Capt. V. Socovsky CB manager). At the beginning of 1925 her owner was the All Russian Co-operative Society Ltd. of London (Socovsky remained manager). She was renamed TOMP later in 1925 and her owner became Sovtorgflot, registered in Odessa. She was renamed JAN TOMP in 1932. She spent at least some of her time under Soviet ownership importing railway locomotives. JAN TOMP was torpedoed by the German "E boat" S-28 in company with S102 on 30 August 1942 near Novorossiysk in the Black Sea and sank in position 43° 44' N, 39° 29' E. Five men died. NEEBING was named after a rural area south of Port Arthur, most of which later became part of the City of Fort William where the Canadian Northwest Steamships head office was located. Alpena Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database; Axis History Factbook online; Bascom and Gillham Early Ships of Canada Steamship Lines; Bowling Green Great Lakes Vessels Online Index; Bureau Veritas Great Lakes Register 1914; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Devendorf Great Lakes Bulk Carriers 1869-1985; Green's Marine Directory of the Great Lakes 1916; Greenwood Namesakes 1910-1919; Lloyd's Register 1918, 1920, 1922-25, 1927, 1930 and 1942; Mercantile Navy List 1923 and 1925; Milwaukee Public Library Great 62