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SHIPS THAT NEVER DIE THOUSAND ISLANDER - Twin screw, cruiser stern, steel day passenger steamer, 166°4" x 31'9" x 8'3", 587 gross tons, 206 registered tonnage. Black hull originally, white cabins, two per- pefidicular black topped red stacks fore and aft abaft the texas. Two compound engines, cylin- ders 15" & 30" with 20" stroke. Speed 20 mph. Built in 1912 by Toledo Shipbuilding Co (Hull #123) for the St.Law- rence Steamboat Company of Cape Vincent New York, a subsidiary of the Richeliei and Ontario Navigation Co. She made summer trips between Cape Vincent, Alex- andria Bay, Claydon and Kingston. Canada Steamship Lines, Ltd., acquired her in 1915 and registered her at Cyayton. In the autumn of 1918 she was placed in the Detroit - Wallaceburg Line, managed by H.B.Smith. Her white hull and red, white and black stacks became well known locally. (See illustration). In her long, full width cabin she could date 874 p rs. The prominent row of observation windows gave the vessel an odd appearance. Beginning with the season of 1924 C.S.L. operated the vessel between Detroit, Chatham and Wallace: burg/ In the autumn of 1927 The Georgian Bay Tourist Co agreed to pay $50,000 for her, delivered at Midland, for service on the Parry Sound run through the. Inaide Pagsage of the 30,000 Islands. On November 2lst, the C.S.L.freighter \\ COLLINGWOOD took her in tow at Sarnia, bound for Midland. When 26 miles SE of Thunder Bay Island broadside waves smashed the THOUSAND ISLANDER'S windows and Flooded the cabin. The COLLINGWOOD'S crew used their deck ladder to bring her eleven man crew aboard before she foundered. W.R.Williams KK OR ok Ok ok Oe ok ok ok ok Ok OF OK OK EK ek FR OR KOK OK RK Ok KK Kk Goo@rich Fleet, continued from p.3: 1930 BAINBRIDGE Steel freighter, purchased from Benton Transit Co. Built 1922 E.Boothbay, Me. 150 x 30, 704 g.t. Now ALGOMAH II at Mackinac I,land. 1931 A.W.LUEBKE Wooden tug, 1911 Sturgeon Bay. 3h g.t. (Editor's Note) A handwritten document among the Goodrich papers now in the Chicago Hystorical S,ciety, indicates that the Goodrich Line owned, around the Seventies, the following barges: Barge MICHIGAN Built at Manitowoc, 1866, from hull of sidewheeler MICHIGAN (ex NILE) Sold in the same year. Barge PLANET Built at Manitowoc, 1867 from hull of sidewheeler PLANET. Sold in 1867 or 1868. (BeerS-Mansfield's History of the Great Lakes states that this barge was later renamed NORTHWEST. ) Barge OTTAWA Built, 1870, from hull of propellor OTTAWA. Sold 1871. Barge WYOMING Scow, built 1870. Wrecked & sold 1871. Barge PLYMOUTH ROCK Built, 1870, from hull of schooner PLYMOUTH ROCK. Sold'71 Barge CONTEST 1870 - 1872. One third interest only. The Goodrich Transit Company ceased operatiéns in 1933, and most of its ships lay idle for several years thereafter, and then were sold one by one roe scrap. As of the moment your editor can recall only the following survivors of this great line which are still afloat: the ALABAMA, idle at Holland, Mich. the COLUMBIA YACHT CLUB, at Chicago, the CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS, awaiting scrap- ping at Hamilton, and the pulpwood barge NORMIL.