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SHIPS THAT NEVER DIE ( #66 ) The ALGOMA, lost on Lake Superior on November 7, 1885, was a sister ship of the AL- BERTA and ATHABASCA, which, like her, ha been built on the Clyde in 1883 for the Canadian Pacific Rail- way and had crossed the aay ALGOMA at Port Arthur, 1885. Photo loaned by George Fullerton. were each 270 ft.in length, 28 ft.beam and 23'3" in depth. They were driven by propellors, but carried sail on their two masts. Being too large for the St.Lawrence and Welland Canals they were cut in two at Montreal and rejoined at Buffalo. All three arrived at their home port, Owen Sound, early in May, 1885, and began weekly trips, carrying heavy loads of freight and great num- bers of passengers to the West. The ALGOMA left Owen Sound on what was to be her last trip on Thursday, November 5, and at midnight between Friday eal and Saturday was within fifty miles of Port Arthur. The waather was bad and Captain John S.Moore decided on a change of course back into Lake Super- for. The operation was scarcely completed when the vessel struck stern first on a reef at the northeast corner of Isle Royale and within a mile of Rock Harbor Light. The ALGOMA soon broke in two. Thirty eight lives were lost in the disaster, ten passengers and twanty eight crew. The survivors were picked up on Sunday morning by the ATHABASCA. The ALGOMA'S engines were later salvaged and went into the MANITOBA (DMH, v.4,n.1), built at Owen Sound in 1889, Until the latter's completion the chartered CAMPANA (ex NORTH) took the ALGOMA'S place in the line. Fred Landon OK OK KOK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK KOK OK OK OK ROK OK OK OK OK OK OK KOK OK OK OK KOK KOK OK OK KK OK Ships of the Hutchinson Fleet (Pioneer Steamship Co.), cont'd. from page 3: WILPEN, 1907 Ecorse for Shenango, 554 x 58. Later DAVID P.THOMPSON. In present fleet. J.S.ASHLEY, 1909 Lorain for Kinney, 504 x 54. Rebuilt as self-unloader in Thirties. In fleet. CLARENCE B.RANDALL, 1943 Ashtabula for U.S.Maritime Commission, 603 x Traded to Pioneer for obsolete tonnage (AMAZON and ‘sears Note: In regard to colors, the early Hutchinson ships appear to have had black hulls and white cabins. A few photos of the older wooden steamers show the white "H" on the stack, just as it is today. The Pioneer S.S.Co freight- ers first had black hulls with white forecastle, white cabins and black stack with white "H." The present day all red hul]. was adopted by the fleet in 1920. At present the foremast is the same colfr as the hull. *OK OR ROR KOR OK ROK ROK OK KOK OK OK ROK OK OK KKK KR OK KR KK KK KK KR KKK SS GOOD We recommend the recently published "Pictorial History of the C. READING & O.Train and Auto Ferries, and the Pere Marquette Line Bun” By Capt.Arthur C.Frederickson and Lucy Frederickson. 70 pp, lustrations. $1.50 plus 15 cents postage from Box 272, Frankfort, Michiaent An excellent, accurate document which should be part of any good collection.