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when leaving for the lakehead [see definitions] with a cargo of ice. In early 1914 she carried a load of 1,900 tons of steel rails from Sydney Nova Scotia to Port Arthur Ontario for the Canadian Northern Railway. She was transferred to Canadian from British registry in October 1910. Her ownership was changed to the Calvins' Kingston Shipping Co. Ltd. in 1913. She was in collision with the American bulk carrier W.D. REES (U 81535, 3,760 tons gross) above the Canadian Sault Ste. Marie lock on 30 September 1913. PRINCE RUPERT sustained little damage but repairs to REES cost $35,000. She was bought by Montreal Transportation Co. in September 1913 for $120,000 in Montreal Transportation Co. shares. Her registry was transferred on 12 January 1914 and she was renamed that February (but was still being called "Prince Rupert" in Montreal Transportation Co. records during May). NORTHMOUNT was aground on Point Vivian in the St. Lawrence below Clayton New York in August 1914. In February 1915 she was chartered to the Manson Line of New York City for 4 months @ $6,500 per month + operating costs. She was then 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 but was quickly sold to them in 1915 before that charter had really started. The net profit to Montreal Transportation Co. from the sale was $15,783.36. NORTHMOUNT foundered in a gale on 18 December 1915 in pos 34° 40' N, 74° 45' W while on passage from Newport News Virginia to Port of Spain Trinidad with a cargo of coal. There was no loss of life. The Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston has a very large builder's half model of PRINCE RUPERT. A possible explanation of her original name is that at the time of her construction the GTP Railway had just announced that Prince Rupert British Columbia would be the western terminus of Canada's second transcontinental railway, and the Calvin Co. had a habit of naming vessels after places where newsworthy things were happening at the time of their construction. Montreal Transportation Co. Annual Directors' Reports 1914 and 1915; Montreal Transportation Co. Directors' Minutes 20 September 1913, 18 February 1915 and 21 September 1915; Montreal Transportation Co. Kingston Grain Ledgers 22 April-31 Oct 1914, 8 Oct-27 November 1915; Montreal Transportation Co. Kingston Letter Book May 1914; Bowling Green Great Lakes Vessels Online Index; Bureau Veritas Great Lakes Register 1914; Canada Annual Report of Department of Marine and Fisheries 1915; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Devendorf Great Lakes Bulk Carriers 1869-1985; Greenwood Namesakes 1910-1919; Lewis and Neilson The River Palace; Lloyd's Register of Shipping 1910; Marine Museum of the Great Lakes Shipowners List; Milwaukee Public Library Great Lakes Marine Collection; Miramar Ship Index; New Mills List; Buffalo Evening News 20 April 1909; Canadian Railway & Marine World April and July 1908 and January 1911, November 1913 and May and August 1914; Scanner November 1972 and April 1973. 66