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MYLES R E V I S I T E D 14. Re aders wil l reca ll that, in our Decem b e r issue, we f e a t u r e d as our Ship of the M o n t h No. 200, the w o o d e n f r e ighter MYL ES (06), (b) C A T ARACT (39), (c) THER E S E T. We did the best we could to det ai l the history of this in t e r e s t i n g steamer, but there rem ai n m a n y u n a n s w e r e d q u estions c o n c e r n i n g the vessel, and we still are hop i n g that our readers wi ll be able to come up w i t h some of the answe rs for us. One member who has p r o v i d e d i n valuable furth er m a t e r i a l is Ala n Mann, of W allaceburg, Ontario. He g r a c i o u s l y has sha re d wit h us a photo w h i c h came from his fa ther's col lection. Dat ed 1890, it shows M YLES b e r t h e d at the S t e i nhoff & Gor d o n Mill at Wall ac eb ur g. This mill was run by Capt. J. W. Ste i n h o f f and his nephew, D. A. Gordon, bot h of w h o m had lake steamer s nam ed for them. Thes e g e n t l e m e n wer e i n v olved in the glass, sugar and brass trades, as w ell as the lake sh ipping business. Seen a l ongside MYLE S In the photo are the steam tugs G RACE (her r e g i s t e r e d name was GRACE DARLING) and ARIADNE. The G RACE (DARLING) was own ed by John Wm. Taylor and H i r a m Little, of Wallaceburg, built in 1884 and d i s m a n t l e d in 1902. ARIADNE, own ed by Steinhoff, was bu ilt in 1885 and was aba n d o n e d after st r a n d i n g on Point Pelee in 1916. We wou ld like rea de rs to co mpare c a r e f u l l y this pho to of MY LES w ith the views on the front of our Decem b e r ph otopage. The M a n n photo o b v i o u s l y can be placed in time betw e e n the 1886 -1 88 7 K i n g s t o n aff ai r and the o c c a s i o n (we have guessed it was in the late 1890s) w hen MYL ES was p h o t o g r a p h e d at Kincardine, Ontario. It will be n o t e d that her pilo t h o u s e has bee n enlarged, and she has the new, squared texas cabin, not the orig in al one w ith the p o i n t e d fo rward end whi ch can be seen p a r t i c u l a r l y well in the ph oto in the ice at Kingston. She still has her grey ( ? ) hull, and the name is still down on the m ain dec k rail a l t h o u g h it is pain t e d in a m uch less ornat e fa shion than it was at the time of the 1886 sinking. The single fidded mast is still prese nt and it still carri es a u x i l i a r y sail; the second (new main) mast vi sible in the Kinc a r d i n e photo has not been added. There is a de c k h o u s e set on the spar deck somew ha t abaft the texas, and this ma y be the t h r e e - w i n d o w e d part of the old d e c k h o u s e that was left by the salvage crews whe n the ship was bei ng rai se d at Kingston. (Compare the first and sec on d views on the D e c e m b e r p h o topage to see the s t ripping wor k that had to be done bef or e the aft se ction of the st eamer could be c o f fe r d a m m e d by the s a l v a g e r s . ) It should also be not ed that the W a l l a c e b u r g photo shows a small b o i l e r h ouse (not full cabin height) un der the smokestack, som e t h i n g that c e rtainly does not seem to be vis ib le in the K i n c a r d i n e photo. Also, there is no stern cabin on the u pper deck at all. We are now d i s p o s e d to w o n d e r wh ether the vers i o n of MYLES w hich we see in the Wallaceburg is what emer g e d from the reconstruction at Kingston fo l l o w i n g the N o v e m b e r 2, 1886, sinki ng and the salvage efforts of the f o l lowing winter. If so, then she p r o b a b l y loo ke d like this for nine seasons, or unt il her furthe r r e c o n s t r u c t i o n over the winter of 1895-1896, at whi ch time she was made to look as she did w hen p h o t o g r a p h e d at Kincardine. If any other rea de rs have material, w r i t t e n or phot og ra ph ic , touc hi ng on this i n t e r e s t i n g ship, we sho ul d be p l e a s e d to hear fro m them. Of p articular interest w o u l d be a photo of the boat as the barge THERESE T., or any addi t i o n a l i n f o r m a t i o n c o n c e r n i n g her a c tivities during the years whe n she was sailing under the name CATARACT. Our reade rs are ver y good at f e rreting out obscure i n f o r m a t i o n and perha ps they will pr oduce s o mething good for us in this case.