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British Built Canadian Vessels; Canadian Railway and Marine World August 1911 and August 1914; Detroit Marine Historian January 1953. 58 STORMOUNT (2) ex AVON wooden steam barge (C 140962 ex U 105733). 1919- 1920. Original: 1,702.33 tons gross, 1,538.84 tons net. As of 1902: 1,417 gross, 1,147 net, 251.1' (between perpendiculars) 259' (overall). As of 1919: 1,180.41 tons gross, 703.6 net, 254.3'. Launched on 29 August 1877 at Union Dry Dock of Buffalo New York. Yard #17. Built as a well-deck package freighter/passenger steamer with machinery aft. Compound steeple engine, two-cylinder = 600 indicated horsepower, 500 nominal horsepower. 1883 rated A1* and valued at $130,000. 1901 rated A1 with a value of $18,000. 1913 insurance rating 80 coarse freight only. 1914 insurance rating = 75 coarse freight only. 1915 insurance rating = 80. 1919 value $126,093.75. 1920 value $116,636.72. AVON's first owner was the Union Steamboat Co. That company was owned by the Erie Railroad. She went aground at the mouth of the Detroit River on her maiden voyage and was aground opposite the "Indian Burial Ground" on the same river in June 1878. She was in collision with the American steam barge THOMAS A. SCOTT (U 24785, 1,150.32 tons) at Milwaukee in 1880 and sustained $4,000 damages. Five years later the courts found AVON had been at fault. She went aground on the Middle Ground at Port Huron Michigan in 1880 and was aground again near Buffalo in November 1883 in a gale. In 1884 she was at Union Dry Dock in Buffalo for repairs that cost $6,000. She lost her rudder off Beaver Island in Lake Michigan during a gale in November 1884 resulting in $1,500 damage. She was at Union Dry Dock again to have steel arches fitted in 1886. She was in collision with a schooner in Buffalo harbour in 1887 and sprang a leak that November that may have been related to her grounding on Stag Island near Port Huron. On 7 June 1888 she collided with and sank the small American steam barge MT. CLEMENS (U 130224, 156 tons gross) in the Detroit River. On the night of 23 August 1888 AVON was in collision with a lumber schooner on Lake Michigan. AVON's port bow was damaged. In April 1889 her engine was disabled while on Lake Superior. She was repaired and her bottom was caulked in 1890. The Union Transit Co. was AVON's owner in 1892. She went aground near Sault Ste. Marie when her steering failed in 1893. She struck bottom and was heavily damaged at the Lime Kiln Crossing of the Detroit River in September 1897. She went to the yard of Union Dry Dock in Buffalo during December 1897 for general repairs. In 1898 her owner was H.C. French. She was under repair at the King & Sons yard in Buffalo in February 1898 and was at the Union Dry Dock yard yet again in May 1899 for repairs to her upper works. Machinery repairs were done at Tonawanda New York in 1900 as Buffalo workers were on strike. There was 78