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TELESCOPE Page 4 | WTR ao a et = aii ewe Fated Roe RCI cia Salinas - Se eae Se The NEW YORK NEWS (i) went agrou ---- = # a, nd during a storm in the Gulf of St. Law- rence in October, 1926. and thus Q & O, is the Tribune Company. publishers of the Chicago Tribune. They also own the New York Daily News, one of the most widely circulated newspapers in the United States. It is after the New York Daily News that the three bulk carriers have been named. Two have been scrapped, but the third sailed the Great Lakes in 1983 maintaining a name that originally appeared on a ship in 1922. The first New York News (C146581) was built by the North of Ireland Shipbuilding Company of Londonderry, Northern Ireland, along with a sistership Chicago Tribune (i). They were the first new ships built for the fleet and their first steel hulled vessels. New York News was Hull 101 and after completion and trials, the vessel crossed the Atlantic for inland service. Prices were dif- ferent in those days and the cost of con- structing this 257 foot long, 43 foot beam vessel was reported at $65,000. New York News soon went to work for the Ontario Transportation and Pulp Company. Her main duties were to bring pulpwood from the St. Lawrence to the Ontario Paper Com- pany dock at Thorold, Ontario, about midway through the Welland Canal. New York News could handle a little over a thousand cords of wood per voyage into the lakes and about 2,600 tons of coal for the downbound run. On occasion grain was also carried to the St. Lawrence. Additional duties after 1930 included the transportation of newsprint from Thorold to the parent firm's docks at Chicago. On October 26, 1926, New York News was caught in a wild storm that battered Eastern Canada and more particularly the Gulf of St. Lawrence. She was moored at Shelter Bay to take on pulpwood, but broke loose in the high seas. A wild ride followed and the ship was driven aground along the rocky shore. No radio communications were available and for a time the ship was reported as lost. When the storm subsided, New York News was located and eventually pulled from her perch. She proceeded to Lauzon, Quebec for repairs at the Davie Shipyard. Corporate reorganization in 1933 saw several fleet members renamed. New York News (i) became Shelter Bay (i) and continued in similar trades. During the Second World War, she saw some duty on salt water along the east coast. Photo by Jim Roberts