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JULY AUGUST 126 WILLIAM H. 1959 and had her engines removed. Today she is P.S. BARGE No. 1 and serves as a lighter for vessels that run aground in the St. Lawrence Riv- er region. The WILLIAM H. DANIELS was the last of these vessels to be used on the Great Lakes in the bulk trade for which she was designed. After her arrival in Britain in 1941 she served in the coastal trade and dur- ing the invasion of Normandy assist- ed as a supply carrier. She was in- the channel run for a short time and then joined the coal trade into Lon- don. Prior to her return to Canadian owners in October 1949, she was bad- ly damaged in a drydock accident on DANIELS damaged at drydock in 1949, Photo courtesy ERNEST L. JAMES. the Thames River. Her bottom plates had been removed for replacement when the high tide broke through the retaining wall flooding the drydock and the ship. Temporary repairs were made to the DANIELS which permitted her being towed to another drydock for reconstruction. The Original yard was never rebuilt. When the Seaway made her obsolete, the WILLIAM H. DANIELS served as a grain storage barge in Toronto until 1964. She was then sold to Superior Aggregates and converted to a crane ship. After being laid up at Port Arthur in 1965 she was purchased by Mid-Canada Transports in 1966. She made two trips down the lakes and