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JAN + FEB, 1985 Page 5 Shelter Bay continued to serve Q & O well until sold to N.M. Paterson & Sons in 1958. This vessel spent her final years as Labra- doc (i). She sailed only two more seasons before laying up at Kingston in the fall of 1959. Only one more voyage remained and in August, 1961 Labradoc was towed to Port Dalhousie, west of the Lake Ontario entrance to the Welland Canal. There, like many of the pre-Seaway canallers, she was cut up for scrap. The second New York News (C148126) was also the product of an overseas shipyard. She was built by Swan, Hunter and Wigham Richardson at Wallsend, England in 1925 for the International Waterways Navigation Company Ltd. They named her Belvoir (i). Statistically she differed little from other such canallers. She was 261 feet in overall length, 43.8 feet at the beam and 22.9 feet in depth. Tonnage was registered at 2,310 gross and 1,672 net. A triple expansion engine measuring 17-28-46x36 and two scotch boilers of 13'6" x 10'6" spanned her entire career. In June, 1933 this ship was purchased by Q & O for $95,000. She was classified for service along the Atlantic coast and this is precisely why she was attractive to Q & O. The company's previous attempts to ship newsprint to New York City by water utilized the New York State Barge Canal. It proved to be most unsatisfactory and a new method was sought. Renamed New York News (ii) for her duties, the ship operated from Thorold to New York via the St. Lawrence. She handled 2,400 tons of newsprint on the route and it achieved considerable savings to the company. She was also able to pick up pulpwood at a Gulf of St. Lawrence port for the trip back to Thorold. As a result of her success, the railways changed their rate structure after the 1934 season and this allowed the New York News to be put to work on other lakes and St. Law- rence trades. In 1942, with war raging in Europe and Asia, ships were at a premium. New York 'The NEW YORK NEWS was renamed SHELTER BAY in 1933 and continued in similar trades. Photo by Jay Bascom