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Montreal Transportation Co. Annual Directors' Report 1918; Montreal Transportation Co. Charter (1917) Schedule B; Montreal Transportation Co. Directors' Minutes 14 April 1917 and 11 November 1921; Montreal Transportation Co. Engineer's Log Oatland 3 Sept 1917-3 June 1918; Montreal Transportation Co. Kingston Grain Ledgers 20 July-18 November 1917, 6 May15 November 1918, 22 May-24 November 1918; Alpena Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database; American Bureau of Shipping Great Lakes Register 1919; American Shipmaster's Association Record of American and Foreign Shipping 1898; Bascom and Gillham Early Ships of Canada Steamship Lines; Beeson Steam Vessels of The Northwstern Lakes; Bowling Green Great Lakes Online Index; Bureau Veritas Great Lakes Register 1913, 1914 and 1915; Canada List of Shipping 1918 and 1924; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Greenwood Namesakes 1930-1955; Mercantile Navy List 1923; Merchant Vessels of the United States 1896; Milwaukee Public Library Great Lakes Marine Collection; Miramar Ship Index; New Mills List; University of Detroit Mercy Dowling website; British Whig 6 February 1885 and 16 and 20 June 1890; Detroit Marine Historian September 1949, November 1952 and May 1976; Marine Record 3 April 1884, 30 July and 24 December 1885 and 30 August 1894; Scanner December 1972; Schell "Canada Steamship Lines" Belgian Shiplover 2/73,. 51 P.B. McNAUGHTON ex W.S. CARKIN wooden canal tug (C 134516 ex U 81198). 1918-1921. Original: 63.87 tons gross and 31.94 tons net, 77.2'. By 1918: 67 tons gross, 30 tons net, 66'. Built by C. Stickney at East Saginaw Michigan in 1888. Crew of three. Compound engine 10 indicated horsepower, 11 rated horsepower. 1919 value $9,187.50. 1920 value $8,268.75. The first owners of W.S. CARKIN were Carkin, Stickney and Cram of Saginaw. She was renamed in 1896 after her new owner Pliny B. McNaughton who still owned her in 1903. She lost a scow on 1 July 1907 when it was rammed by another vessel. She was transferred to Canadian registry in 1916 by her new owner C.E. Millard of Sarnia Ontario and collided with a barge in the Bay of Quinte ¾ of a mile east of the Murray Canal entrance on 7 November 1916 while on passage from Port Dalhousie to Kingston. Damage was slight. Montreal Transportation Co. bought her in 1918 for $10,500. They sold her to the Harrigan Tug Line in 1921 as part of a package with ALERT and ESCORT for $15,000. Harrigan renamed her JOSEPH H. in 1922. She was one of two small tugs wrecked on 5 December 1924 near Port Colborne when they were pushed against a reef by the bulk carrier MIDLAND PRINCE (C 116669, 6,636 tons gross). The other tug crushed was HOME RULE that was formerly owned by Canadian Northwest Steamships. Montreal Transportation Co. Annual Directors' Reports 1919-20; Montreal Transportation Co. Directors' Minutes 14 May 1918 and 11 January and 11 November1921; Montreal Transportation Co. Ships' Logs P.B. McNaughton May-Sept 1918 and Mary P. Hall; Alpena Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database; American Bureau of Shipping Great Lakes Register 1919; Bascom and Gillham Early Ships of Canada Steamship Lines; Beeson Steam Vessels of the Northwstern Lakes; Bowling Green Great Lakes Vessels Online Index; Bureau Veritas Great Lakes Register 1914; Canada Annual Report of the Department of Marine and Fisheries 1915/16; Canada List of Shipping 1918; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Mercantile Navy List 1917, 1918 and 1923; Merchant Vessels of the United States 1896, 1899 and 1910; New Mills List; Buffalo Morning Express 10 July 1907. 68