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Electric Marine Propulsion Co. went into liquidation. The legal wrangling went on for over a year. The vessel went into service in 1914 with Stamp, Mann & Co. as managers. According to the Canadian Railway and Marine World January 1914, her first trip was to Santander Spain and she was going to make a number of voyages as a short-sea trader before crossing the Atlantic. Swan Hunter seized the vessel before that happened. They had her rebuilt as a steamship (at Smith's Dock Co.) and sold her to Forwarders Ltd. (Reuben A. McClelland) of Kingston who renamed her PORT DALHOUSIE. She made a 19-day Atlantic crossing beginning 9 July 1914, making 10 knots on her steam engine. She was resold to Nova Scotia Steel and Coal of New Glasgow Nova Scotia on 10 March 1915 and was torpedoed and sunk in the North Atlantic by the German submarine UB-10 on 19 March 1916. She was registered at Newcastle throughout. Montreal Transportation Co. Annual Directors' Report 1913; Montreal Transportation Co. Directors' Minutes 29 May 1912, 11 March and 28 August 1913, 25 February 1914; Bowling Green Great Lakes Vessels Online Index; Canadian Heritage Ship Information Database; Devendorf Great Lakes Bulk Carriers 1869-1985; Greenwood Namesakes 1910-1919; Lloyd's Register 1912, 1914 and 1915; MarHst-L 11 and 13 May 2013; Milwaukee Public Library Great Lakes Marine Collection; Miramar Ship Index; New Mills List; uboat.net; Canadian Railway and Marine World May 1913 and January and September 1914. 59 VALCARTIER ex WILLIAM HENRY MACK steel bulk carrier (C 116573 ex U 81857). 1920-1921. As of 1909: 3,781 tons gross, 2,923 net, 354'. Capacity 216,000 bushels of wheat = 6,300 tons on 19'9" draft. As remeasured Canadian 1914: 3,755 tons gross, 2,248 tons net, 361'. As of 1920: 3,315 tons gross. Launched by American Shipbuilding Co. at Cleveland Ohio on 7 February 1903, completed that April. Yard #414. Double bottom, electric light. Was fitted with wireless by 1910. Inverted triple expansion = 1,300 indicated horsepower, 191 nominal horsepower. 1921 value $410,000. This vessel's first owner was the Mack Steamship Co. with the Jenkins Steamship Co. as managers. She was in collision with a tug in Buffalo harbour in October 1905, damaging the tug's upper works. MACK was sold to the Jenkins Steamship Co. in April 1906. She rammed the bulk carrier JOHN MITCHELL (U 203943, 4,468 tons gross) off Vermillion Point (15 miles west of Whitefish Point) in Lake Superior on 10 July 1911. MITCHELL, carrying coal, sank with the loss of three lives. MACK, in ballast, had her bow stove in and her forward end sank to water level. She was then sold to A.T. Kenny & Co. of Cleveland. On 25 March 1913 she was swept away in the Cuyahoga River at Cleveland and hit a bridge. In 1914 MACK was sold to Canadian owners (Lake Commerce Ltd), her registry was changed and she was renamed. She was in collision with the American bulk carrier A.W. OSBORNE (U 107267, 3,826 tons gross) on 13 May 1915 84