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Namesakes 1910-1919; Lloyd's Register 1905, 1910 and 1918; Milwaukee Public Library Great Lakes Marine Collection; Miramar Ship Index; New Mills List; Salmon British Built Canadian Vessels; University of Detroit Mercy Dowling website; Canadian Railway & Marine World April and November 1906, October 1908; Detroit Marine Historian February 1953; Scanner March 1978 and December 1998. 63 WESTMOUNT (2) upper lake steel bulk carrier (C 138232). 1917-1921. 7,392 tons gross, 5,635 net, 536.0' (between perpendiculars), 550.75' (overall). Capacity 400,000 bushels of wheat = 12,000 tons. Launched by Collingwood Shipbuilding Co. on 5 May 1917. Yard #48. Double bottom. Licensed for 10 passengers. Triple expansion = 2,400 indicated horsepower, 217 rated horsepower. 1917 value $850,000. 1918 value $743,750. 1919 insurance rating = 100/100. 1919 value $658,750. 1920 value $625,804.51. 1921 value $1,125,000. WESTMOUNT (2) was the only Montreal Transportation Company vessel not to be painted in full Canada Steamship Lines colours in 1917. Her funnel was repainted but the CSL diamond was not painted on her bows. She was aground near Caribou Island in the St. Mary's River on 30 July 1917 and was released on 4 August after 60,000 bushels of grain had been lightered [see definitions]. Her ownership was transferred to Canada Steamship Lines in 1921 as part of the final winding up of the Montreal Transportation Co. fleet. She made an early transit of the new Welland Canal on 3 July 1931, over a year before the ceremonial opening. On 15 May 1963 WESTMOUNT (2) was in collision with the German freighter LOBIVIA (G 5210155, 4,076 tons gross) off Port Huron Michigan. The German ship was part of the Cunard Great Lakes Service. WESTMOUNT (2) was also in collision with the American bulk carrier ROGERS CITY (U 223352, 7,318 tons gross) during the same incident. Later that same summer WESTMOUNT (2) grounded on 4-5 June 1963 two miles below the Bluewater Bridge at Sarnia Ontario close to where the earlier collisions had occurred. She was laid up at Kingston after the 1966 shipping season and arrived at Santander Spain to be broken up on 30 August 1967. This steamer's sponsor was Mrs. L.L. Henderson, wife of the president of Montreal Transportation Co. The only "upper laker" that Montreal Transportation Co. built rather than bought, she was too big to go through the Welland Canal of the time. Westmount is an exclusive suburb of Montreal. Montreal Transportation Co. Annual Directors' Reports 1917-19; Montreal Transportation Co. Charter (1917) Schedule A; Montreal Transportation Co. Directors Minutes 11 November 1921; Alpena Public Library Great Lakes Maritime Database; American Bureau of Shipping Great Lakes Register 1919; Bascom and Gillham Early Ships of Canada Steamship Lines; Bowling Green Great Lakes Vessels Online Index; Canada List of Shipping 1918; Canadian Heritage 90