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SSS SHIPS THAT CITY OF BUFFALO - (US 127132), steel hull, sidewheel passenger NEVER DIE and freight steamer. Designed by Frank E.Kirby and built in 1896 (#71) at Wyandotte and Detroit by the Detroit Dry Dock Company for the Cleveland and Buffalo Transit Company, the "C & B Line" for their overnight service between Cleveland and Buffalo. She was the first ship puilt for the C & B Line. Hull dimensions were 298.3 x 41 x 17, 2398 gross. The engine was a 5500 hp beam compound by W.& A.Fletcher, Hoboken, N.J.,driv- ing side paddles of feathering type, all designed to develop a speed of 2lmph. In 1904 placed in drydock at Orleans St.,and lengthened 42 ft. New dimensions were 340.3 x 43.7 €75' over guards) x 17, 2940 g.t. For 41 years, 1896-1937, with few interruptions ad no serious accidents the CITY OF BUFF. ran on ht regular nightly service plus lake rides and day excursions to other pprts. In dock at East 9th St. pier in Cleveland while fitting out for the coming sea- son, she was found to be on fire on the morning of 3-20-3%. When the fire was brought under control 6 hours later, the upper cabins were a complete wreck and the ship had sunk from the weight of water in her hull. Later survey dis- closed such extensive damage that the owners decided not to rebuild and the hulk was raised and towed to the 61d River Bed in Cleveland and dismantled. The steel hull was bought by Capt.William Nicholson and towed to the Nichol- son Terminal at River Rouge in 1939. Plans for utilizing the hull as a cargo carrier did not materialize and it was cut up for scrap at River Rouge in William A.McDonald OK OK OK KK OK OK OK OK OK OK KOK OK OK KOK OK OK KK KK OK OK OK KK OK KOK KOK OK OK OK KOK Ships of the OTTAWA RIVER NAVIGATION COMPANY, continued from page 3: DUCHESS OF YORK - 1895 Montreal by White, steel sidewheeler, 156.8 x 25.3 x +h, 490 gross, 262 net. Beam engine from PRINCE OF WALES. Used as picnic and moonlight excwrsion boat and in market trade in the fall until fitted out to replace SOVEREIGN in 1906. Sold in 1917 and changed hands several times, Renamed SOREL in 1925, PELERIN in 1927 and BELOEIL in 1935. Her later feathering wheels and steam steering engine installed out of CASPIAN in 1920. Broken up 1938 and hull converted to pulpwood barge. Out of act- ive list in 1945. (Can 103342) NOTE: In 1864 the Ottawa River Navigation Co. acquired control of the Carillon and Grenville Railway, which was thenceforth used as a con- , necting link between the company’s steamers of io) the gpper route and those on the lower route, thus overcoming the Long Sault Rapids of the Ottawa and the small Carillon & Grenville Canal. The photo at the left shows one of the C.& G. Locomotives in 1906. Photo by R.W.S.