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9. Ship of the Month - cont'd. other Lake Erie ports dow n b o u n d to Montreal and they u s u a l l y r e t urned u p bound w i t h loads of pulpwood. That they c a r r i e d pulplogs can be seen from the fact that they had cargo booms (not n e e d e d on a straight grain or coal boat) but also by the large w o o d e n cages fitted over the winc h e s in order to keep the stacked p u l p w o o d clear of them. ALGONQUINS, SIOUX, P H E N I C I A and IMARI were the only boats that St. L a w r e n c e S t eamships Ltd. ever owned, and they served the company w e l l for more than a decade. The company had set a p r e cedent w h e n they n amed A L G O N Q U I N S and S IOUX for na tive North A m e r i c a n Indian tribes, and it was not long before the other two ships were renamed to fit the pattern. Accordingly, in early 1931, or perhaps late in 1930, P H E NICIA was r e c h r i s t e n e d (b) CHEYENNE, while IMARI became (b) DELAWARE. While P HENICIA's o r i g i n a l name r e f e r r e d to P h e n i c i a (more c o m m o n l y spelled Phoenicia), a group of city states located in ancient times at the east e r n end of the M e d iterranean, in areas n o w known as Syria and Lebanon, the name of CHEYENNE h o n oured a warl i k e tribe of A l g o n q u i a n I n dians who lived west of the M i s s i s s i p p i River, in the lands betw e e n the Mi s sour i and A r k a n s a s Rivers. The name D E L A W A R E r e f e r r e d to a dif f e r e n t A l g o n q u i a n tribe, f o r m e r l y from the Delaware River area and later r e s ident in what is n o w Oklahoma. During the mid to late 1930s, and at least prior to 1938, St. L a w r e n c e St eamsh ips Ltd. adop t e d somewhat less i n t e r e s t i n g but, u n d o ubtedly, far more easily m a i n t a i n e d colours for its four ships. C HEYENNE'S hull became black, her fore c a s t l e and cabins were pain t e d white, and her stack was silver, wit h a black letter 'S' and a black smokeband. It was after the ships took on these ne w colours, and for C H E Y E N N E at least by the summer of 1938, that all four ships lost their original "sawmill" stacks. Fitted, apparently, w i t h more e f f icient forced draft, the steamers did not need such tall smok es t a c k s any longer, and they wer e given m u c h shorter and rather heav i e r funnels. In the w r i t e r ' s humble opinion, all of the boats looked much better w ith these shorter stacks. During 1939, the two original St. Lawrence steamers, A L G O N Q U I N S and SIOUX, were d e e p e n e d by the Mui r Bros. Dry Dock C o m p a n y Ltd. at its shipyard above old Lock One at Port Dalhousie. This r e c o n s t r u c t i o n i n v olved cutting each ship h o r i z o n t a l l y b e l o w the spar d eck and rais i n g the entire forward p o r t i o n of the ve s s e l so that the spar deck was flush wit h the poop or quarterdeck. C H E Y E N N E was not trea t e d the same wa y by St. Lawrence, a l t h o u g h a subsequent owner did the job, and D E L AWARE n ever was rai s e d at all, and ran her entire life wit h the step in her deck. ALGONQUINS, D E L A W A R E and SIOUX were r e q u i s i t i o n e d by the C a n a d i a n government in 1940 for wart i m e service on salt water, but CHEYENNE was left to her o w ners, and she carried on in serv ice for St. L a w r e n c e S t e a m s h i p s throughout the war years. A l t h o u g h her cabins, masts and stack r e t a i n e d their same c o lours w h e n C H E Y E N N E was o p erating alone, her f orecastle and forecast le head b u l w a r k w ere pain t e d black. It was in this livery that C H E Y E N N E a p p e a r e d when, towards the close of W o r l d War Two, the steamer carried the first load of soya beans to the a s - y e t - u n c o m p l e t e d V i c t o r y Soya Mills facility at T o ronto. A p h o t o g r a p h of that event shows the soya mill still under c o n s t r u c tion, b e h i n d the elevator and out on the corner b e t w e e n the P arliament Street slip and the entrance to the Keat i n g Channel. In due cour se of time, the h o s t i l i t i e s of W o r l d War Two came to an end. C H E Y ENNE had r e m a i n e d saf e l y in the lakes, and her three f leetmates had s o m e h o w made it through the war without falling v i c t i m either to e nemy action or to the elements on the deep seas. But m any of the C a n adian canallers that went to war were not so lucky. The fleet of P a t e r s o n S teamships Ltd., Fort William, was hit p a r t i c u l a r l y hard, as eleven Paterson canallers were lost on salt w a t e r du r i n g the war years and an addi t i o n a l canal steamer was lost in 1940 on the lakes. As well, several other r e q u i s i t i o n e d Paterson c a n a l lers were in such bad c o ndition after the war that the c o m p a n y did not r e