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Lakes Marine Collection; Miramar Ship Index; New Mills List; Wrecksite.eu; Buffalo Evening News 17 August 1903; Canadian Railway & Marine News July 1908; Detroit Marine Historian October 1952. NEWMOUNT steel canaller (C 118615) (signal letters VDMR). 1,889 tons gross, 1,201 net, 248.6' (between perpendiculars). Launched on 7 July 1903 by C.S. Swan & Hunter at Newcastle (Wallsend) England. Yard #292. Pilot House aft of raised fo'c'stle, low quarterdeck. Two masts. Clinker hull. Elliptical stern. Triple expansion = 175 nominal horsepower. Most sources say that Montreal Transportation Co. ordered this near sister to FAIRMOUNT and WESTMOUNT but then refused to accept her from the builders. However, the February 1999 issue of Scanner stated that she was built on speculation and given the name as it was hoped to sell her to Montreal Transportation Co., who it turned out did not want her. She does not appear in the Montreal Transportation Co. director's minutes. In any case, her builders sold her to Charles A. Farrar of Meaford Ontario who set up a new company, Farrar Transportation, to operate her. She was renamed MEAFORD in 1906. She was on a short-term charter to Nova Scotia Steel and Coal in 1915 and then was requisitioned and sent to salt water in 1916. She was transferred to Canadian registry on 5 June 1916. Mills says that she sank a U-Boat by gunfire near Sicily on 12 June 1916, which information presumably came from Canadian Railway and Marine World October 1917. The magazine said that she was under French charter at the time and struck the submarine with the third shot. The story continues that the gun crew were given a $500 reward. However, no confirmation of this event could be found in any other sources. She was torpedoed by the German submarine U-53 in the Bay of Biscay on 2 April 1918 while on passage from Bougie Algeria to Belfast Northern Ireland (had sailed on 27 March) with a cargo of phosphates. MEAFORD sank with all hands. Her registry was closed on 17 September 1918. Alpena Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database; Bowling Green Great Lakes Vessels Online Index; Bureau Veritas Great Lakes Register 1914 and 1915; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Devendorf Great Lakes Bulk Carriers 1869-1985; Greenwood Namesakes 1910-1919; Lloyd's Register 1910 and 1918; Milwaukee Public Library Great Lakes Marine Collection; Miramar Ship Index; New Mills List; University of Detroit Mercy Dowling website; uboat.net; Wrecksite.eu; Canadian Railway & Marine World October 1917 and April 1919; Scanner March 1979, December 1993 and February 1999. 47 NICARAGUA wooden steam barge (C 140963 ex U 130669). 1919-1921. Original: 1,201.64 tons gross and 911.04 tons net. Capacity 1,300,000 board feet of lumber. By 1920: 1,723.7 tons gross and 1,042 net, 248.0' (between perpendiculars) (Bascom and Gillham said 249.75'). Built by James Davidson (New Mills List said F.W. Wheeler) at West Bay City Michigan in 1894 for his own account. Yard #61. Single deck with built up sides, diagonally strapped. 63