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Page 33 Approaching the Old Club, St. Clair Flats The Tashmoo, along with other White Star ships, Owana and Wauketa, enjoyed immense success on the north route, complimenting another leg, south to Lake Erie utiltizing the Greyhound and City of Toledo. Occasionally, special charters were booked through the White Star Line, usually in the Detroit River area. It was during one of these enjoyment intended forays, the famed Tashmoo suffered a premature demise. On June 18,1936, Tashmoo was carrying a charter crowd on a moonlight curise on the Detroit River. She headed south to Sugar Island, where the vessel was coming about for the upbound trip back to Detroit. She struck an underwater obstruction which turned out to be a large boulder. A section of her hull was opened and water began to pour in. The captain, realizing the gravity of the impact, headed his ship to the closest dock which was in Amherstburg on the Canadian shore. Most of the happy excursionists, unaware of the situation, continued with their moonlight frivolity much in the fashion of Titanic passengers in 1912 who seemed unconcerned. The Tashmoo was taking on water, but fortunately, with little panic, all passengers were safely disembarked on the Amherstburg wharf. No lives were lost, just the Tashmoo's near impeccable reputation as she had enjoyed a relatively mishap free career during her first 36 years ofwork. Plans were put in place to repair the hole, a routine procedure. Tashmoo's lower innards were wet, but it was anticipated by owners she would be up and running to complete the 1936 sailing season. Unfortunately, when the salvage crew raised one end too quickly, her keel buckled, mortally wounding the Tashmoo beyond reasonable repair cost. Her illustrious career was over, ended with a broken back, an untimely conclusion to a brilliant sailing life. Perhaps fate was dealing an expected hand as the "shine"on excursion travel was gradually diminishing and a world war was just a few short years hence. Tashmoo would be scrapped! During the spring of 1937, Capt. James McKenty of Chatham, Ont. an area tug boat operator, and friend of Mirwin Park founder Morrison Irwin, successfully bid on the pilot house and main salon of the Tashmoo which had been picked apart by salvors. His plan was to move these prominent components to property he had purchased adjacent to Mirwin Park in Canada.. He would set them up and modify into a unique summer retreat. Capt. McKenty knew the Tashmoo well, had travelled aboard her and often would issue salutes whenever his tug came within hailing distance.