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Ships of the OTTAWA RIVER NAVIGATION COMPANY, continued from page 2: DAGMAR - 1866 Montreal by Cantin, formerly FAIRY. Wooden sidewheeler, 126.2 x 22.9 x 6.1. Passenger and market boat, Montreal & Cgrillon. Destroyed by fire, 3-19-90 when being fitted out at Como wharf. Gea - 1866 Montreal by Cantin, wooden sidewheeler, 161.7 x 25.2 x 8.1. eam engine from PHOENIX. Used as towboat. Sold 1873 to Hepburn Bros. of Picton, Ont. and rebuilt 1883 as passenger ship, lengthened to 173.7 ft. & renamed ALEXANDRIA (Can 85768). To Canada SS lines, 191k. Wrecked off Secarboro Bluffs, Toronto, in gale, August, 1915. VICTORIA - (Can 52475), 1865 Quebec, wooden sidewheeler, 103.6 x 19.6 x 8.3., 106 gross, 67 net tons. Used as ferry. Listed until 1880, with no other data available as to disposition. ALPHA - 1866 Lachine, wooden barge, 90.4 x 17.3 x 6.4.) These barges carried BETA - 1871 Quebec, wooden barge, 93.8 x 18.8 x 6.9. ) Potash to glass fac- MAUDE - 1871 Montreal by Cantin, wooden sidewheeler, ) tories at Como and Ti2 x 21 x 7.4, 113 gross. Used as towboat and ) Hudson freighter until lost in collision with OTTAWAN near Hudson, 9-27-06. PRINCESS - 1872 Carillon by Girard, wooden sidewheeler, 141.9 x 22.4 x 7.8, beam engine. Operated as night passenger boat, Montreal to C,rillon till 1880, then as market boat. Laid up at Carillon, end of 1913 season. PEERLESS - (Can 73086), iron sidewheeler, constructed in England and shipped in sections to Ottawa and assembled in 1873. 202 x 28.5 x 8.4. Beam engine by Gilbert. Largest vessel on Ottawa River, 1039 gross, 570 net. Day pas- senger service between Ottawa and Grenville. Burned at Montebello, 1885. COMO - 1875 Sorel, formerly CYGNE, wooden towboat for Sincennes MacNaughton. 95 x 17.2 x 5.2, beam engine léhp. Bought by ORNco 1877, sold 1883 to Cook Lumber Co. on St.Lawrence River. Still in service in 1906. (Can 71614). EMPRESS - 1886 Montreal, iron sidewkheeler, using hull and engines from PEERLESS. 185.3 x 27.6 x 8.1, 678 gross, 372 net. In day passenger ser- ©) vice, Ottawa to Grenville until 1907, then between Montreal & Cgrillon. Sold, 1920 to Empress Nav.Co. of Ottawa. Laid up, 1931, broken up 1935, at Ottawa. (Can 73086, same registry number as PEERLESS. } SOVEREIGN - (Can 91887), 1889 Montreal by White, steel sidewheeler with feathering paddles, 162.4 x 27.6 x 8.1, 636 gr, 323 net. Beam engine by Brush's Eagle Foundry, Montreal. Day passenger service Montreal to Cgril- lon. Destroyed by fire, 3-17=06, in winter quabters at Lachine. Hull and engine used in building IMPERIAL for Canadian St.Lawrence Nav.Co.,1907. VICTORIA - (Can 107408), steel propellor, 1899 Toronto by M.Simpson. Com- pound jet condensing two crank engine, HP cylinder 9" dia.,LP cylinder 18" dia, by 14" stroke. Engine built by Polson Iron Works. 101 x 21x 5.6, 108 net, 181 gross. Operated between Ottawa & Thurso. Sold 1925 and ran between Montreal & Sorel. Crushed by ice, winter 1927-28 and junked. OR KOK KKK KR KK OK OK KOK OK OK KK OK OK OK KOK KOK * Continued, next page ae The D SS OF YORK show- ing her old style radial paddles, elliptical engine beam typical of Se . Lawrence essels of her day.