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The Detroit Marine Historian Volume 10, No.10 JOURNAL OF July-August , 1957 ™ MARINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DETROIT, INC. Rey. Edward J. Dowling, S. J., Editor University of Detroit, Detroit 21, Mich. KK OK KOK KK OK KOK OK KK KOK KR OR KOK OK OK KOK OK OK OK OK KOK KKK KK KOK * GREAT LAKES FLEET OF IMPERIAL OIL, LTD. The first tanker IMPERIAL Pesha Photo Imperial Oil, Ltd. began operations in 1880 with its first refinery near Petrolia, Ontario. Shipments of oil via the Great Lakés began in 1902. Until 1910 Imperial chartered barges and tugs. In 1910 a British- built small tanker was brought into the Lakes, the first of this type to sail here. Since then Imperial has maintained a sizeable Great Lakes tanker fleet, as well as tankers on both oceans. The following list contains the vessels owned by Imperial operated on the Great Lakes and the St.Lawrence River. IMPERIAL (i), ane Wellington Quay, G.B. as MINOCO for Mineral 011 Corp. x 32 x 14. Renamed IMPERIAL in 1902 and came to the deat Lakes in 1910. Later named IMPOCO(iii). No record after 1938. Apparently abandoned. Can-108346. (Above). “IMPOCO (1), 1910 Greenock, Scotland. 242 x 40 x 18.8. Out of Canadian list, 1913. Br.129036. (Illustration on page 3). w IOcoMA, 1912 Dundee, Scotland. 248 x 42 x 18. Later IMPERIAL WHITBY. Sold, later self untoading bulk carrier GEORGE S.CLEET. Still in service, Bayswater Shipping,Ltd. Can.132745. IMPEROYAL, 1913 Grangemouth, Scotland. 249 x 43 x 19.7. Later IM- PERIAL COBOURG. Sold, later dry cargo carrier STARBELLE. Still in service, Powell Transports. Itd. (Can.135209).