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he JOURNAL OF Detroit MARINE HISTORICAL + SOCIETY Marine OF DETROIT, INC. Historian Volume 10, No.8 April, 1957 Rey. Edward J. Dowling, S. J.. Editor University of Detroit, Detroit 21, Mich. KOR KK OR KR OK ROK RR KOR KR KOR OK OK ROK OK ROK ROKK KOK OR KK KOK RK Ships of the NORTHERN NAVIGATION COMPANY The Northern Navigation Company's steamers CITY OF MIDLAND (foreground) and CITY OF COLLINGWOOD docked at Collingwood (From a colored postcard, courtesy Stephan Gusiiny * KKK KK KK The Northern Navigation Company was organized at Collingwood, Ontario in 1899. In the decade preceding 1899 there had been very deadly rivalry be- tween the two steamship lines running from Georgian Bay ports to Lake Sup- erior, namely the Great Northern Transit Company, popularly known as the "White Line,” and the North Shore Navigation Company, known better as the "Black Line." With a view to ending this ruinous competition, the new company was established & acquired the ships of the two companies named above, as well as those of the Northwest Transportation C,mpany of Sarnia, the "Beatty Line." There were twelve ships in the original fleet of N.N. Co.,ineluding ten wooden passenger and freight propellors varying in size from 400 tons to 2000 tons, and two small sidewheelers, one of them an iron hull and the other wood. In the early years of the Twentieth Cen- tury two small freighters were purchased and four steel passenger md freight steamers built for the line. In 1913 the Northern Navigation Co. became a subsidiary of the Richelieu & Ontario Navigation Co, and a year jater both N.N.Co. and R.& O.N.Co. became part of Canada Steamship Lines. At various times after 1914 C.S.L. assigned four passenger vessels to its Northern Navigation Division as need arose. In all, a total of 22 ships served on this line. (Continued, top of page 3)