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13. Ship of the Month - cont'd. in 1874 to the St. Lawrence Towing Company, of Kingston. Heyl recorded the name of the purchaser as the St. Lawrence Towboat Company, but the Canadian Lake Underwriters' Association list of 1874 shows "Towing". The C. L. U. A. list also showed the value of the vessel as $14, 000 and classified her as C, with a notation that she had been surveyed in March of 1874. The new owner cut BANSHEE down to a tug, but she operated for them for only a few years, usually towing vessels through the dangerous Coteau Lake section of the St. Lawrence River. The St. Lawrence Towing Company in 1875 became the St. Lawrence Steam Navigation Company Ltd., Quebec. It is believed that BANSHEE, a victim of old age (for a heavily-used wooden hull) was broken up in 1876, although her register was not closed officially until January 21st, 1883, thus causing confusion as to when the old steamer actually reached the end of her career. It is interesting to note that the Canadian Navigation Company was into the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company Ltd., Montreal, just after BANSHEE had been sold out of the fleet, and the St. Steam Navigation Company Ltd., was also absorbed into the R & O , not until 1886, after BANSHEE was long gone from the scene. * * * absorbed in 1875, Lawrence although Foot n o t e s : [1] History of the Great Lakes by J. B. Mansfield, Beers & Co., Toronto, 1899; Canadian Coastal & Inland Steam Vessels 1809-1930 by John Mills, Steamship Historical Society of America, Providence, Rhode Island, 1979, and Supplement # 2 , 1983. "The Globe", June 26 & Sept. 22, 1855:Marine Intelligence; ibid., Sept. 26, 1855: (Advertisement) New Independent Line of Freight Boats. "Daily British Whig", Oct. 17, 1891: Capt. Trowell at Rest. "The Globe", May 26, 1857: List of Canadian Vessels. "The Evening Telegram", Sat. Feb. 12, 1938: Schooner Days CCCXXXII. "The Globe", Apr. 30, 1898: Prominent Men of the Great Lakes, by John A. Copland; "Kingston Daily Whig", Sept. 25, 1859: Accidents on the Lake. "Daily British Whig", July 21, 1860: Three Steamboats Ashore at Lake St. Peter; ibid., July 23, 1860: Safety of the BANSHEE. "The Daily News", Sept. 25, 1860, also "The Weekly British Whig", Sept. 28, 1860: Marine News; "The Montreal Gazette", Sept. 22, 1860. Canvas and Steam on Quinte Waters by Willis Metcalfe, p. 42; "Toronto Leader", Aug. 23, 1861: Loss of the Propeller BANSHEE and One Life; "Toronto Daily Globe", Aug. 23, 1861: Loss of the BANSHEE; "Weekly Bri tish Whig", Aug. 30, 1861: Loss of Propeller BANSHEE; "Buffalo Commer cial Advertiser", Jan. 22, 1862: Casualty List 1861; Shipwrecks of the Great Lakes by Tom Tumilty; World Ship Society Preliminary List of C a nadian Merchant St ea m s h ip s . "Kingston Daily News", June 21, 1854: Launch; "Daily Whig", Dec. 8, 1854: Launch; "The (Buffalo) Democracy", Dec. 12, 1854: Launch, r e printed from "Kingston Daily News", Dec. 2, 1854; "British Inland Waters Directory 1854". Mills (see [1] above); "Kingston Daily News", June 6, 1856: Photographs and Ambrotypes. "Buffalo Morning Express", Jan. 11, 1856: Casualty List; "The Democracy", July 31, 1855: Accident to the Steamer BANSHEE. Bill McNeil Notes, Folio 1, Register No. 82; "Freshwater", Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 1986, p. 5: The Canadian Navigation Company (1861-1875). "Kingston Daily News", Apr. 28, 1856: The Steamships. "Daily British Whig", Apr. 4, 1859: A Walk Along the Wharves; ibid., Oct. 14, 1859: A Perilous Passage. Ibid., Oct. 4, 1859. Ibid., Mar 19, 1860: The New Steamboat Arrangements; also Apr. 5, 1860 and May 3, 1860: The Movements of the Royal Mail Line of Steamers. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]