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cylinder four-stroke Bessemer diesel originally built by the Clyde Shipbuilding Co. for Montreal Transportation Co.'s TYNEMOUNT that again came from Swan Hunter. Montreal Transportation Co. took an option on TOILER in 1910 but the option was dropped only a month later due to her poor performance on trials that were held on the 9th and the 30th September 1910 and later in April 1911. She made 7.2 knots on trial in September while developing 385 brake horse power. She could only make 5.9 knots loaded on her maiden voyage from the Tyne through rough weather to Calais France with a 2,650 ton cargo of coal. She made 8.2 knots on the return trip in ballast, burning an average of 1.7 tons a day for the round trip. "Lack of reduction gearing meant that [her] screw was operated much too fast for efficient performance" (New Mills List). Her first owner was her builder and she was registered in Newcastle on the 31st March 1911. TOILER's transatlantic voyage was from Middlesbrough England to Montreal with a cargo of pig iron and scoria blocks. It took her 36 days to cross the Atlantic to Halifax Nova Scotia and then a further two weeks to reach Montreal. When she came to the lakes she was still owned by her builders who put her under the management of C.I. de Sola of Montreal. She ran in ballast to Port Colborne Ontario where she loaded a cargo of grain for Montreal. She returned from Montreal to Charlotte (Rochester) New York, then went back to Montreal with coal and wintered at Kingston She was chartered by grain dealers James Richardson & Sons who bought her in 1912 (James Playfair managers) and they ran her with CALGARY. She stranded at the foot of the Galops Rapids in the St. Lawrence on 24 May 1912 due to an engine failure and was towed down the river to Montreal. "... the oil engine boat TOILER met with an accident early in the fall [sic] while manoeuvring in the locks below Kingston, one of her cylinders on the starboard engine breaking at the housing near the bedplate from some cause not yet explained. The steamer [sic] lay about three weeks at Montreal while repairs were made on the broken engine. Considerable difficulty, however, was experienced in getting the engine to run again because of the disarrangement of fuel and air valves and setting of same. After many unsuccessful attempts, the owners cabled Swan & Hunter, builders of the vessel, and they sent out their representative, [but] after several days of effort [he also] failed to start the engine. The TOILER was towed from Montreal to Kingston light, and the owners asked assistance from the American Ship Building Co. of Cleveland Ohio. This was promptly given by two members of their engineering department, who, after an hour or two, located the difficulty so the vessel was able to proceed to Port Dalhousie Ontario and return under her own power. 81