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- = ASSINIBOIA Young Photo R. W. Williams Collection SHIPS THAT ASSINIBOIA, steel, single-screw passenger and freight steamer built NEVER DIE by the Fairfield Shipyard at Govan on the eaece in 1907, bearing #114 canadian registry No. 12598), gross tons, 3880, She measured 336 X 43"6" X 261 3". Her three long masts were of seasoned fir and her tall stack sent 2 a column of hot gases that effectively disposed of smoke, cinders and fly ash and prevented a8 cour ort to strolling passengers, She has 15-foot draft and cruising speed of 15 lmots, Her shipt: bell, inscribed with her name, was mounted on the hurricane aed She had four scotch coal-burning boilers, mounted end-to-end, each measuring 14110" X 11! and quadruple Serena toc engines with cylinders 23h23he1 182-70 Arriving at Montreal, she was cut in two and towed through the St, eee. a canals, Lake Ontario and the Welland Canal to Buffalo where her two halves were joined together From 1907 to “1911 she was based at Owen Sound and operated from there to Port Arthur and Fort William, but in 1912 the Canadian Pacific Railway estabe ed a new Georgian Bay connection at Port McNicoll. accommodates 22 cabin passengers and 30 more can be berthed in let-down cabin’ chesterfields, Vacant berths are few during July and August, Her crew numbers 100, Space is reserved for 30 to 34 automobiles, depending on size, Fer cargo holds are quickiy loaded with package freight by storage battery trucks which are also used for unloading After the regrettable burning of S.: a ‘NoRONTC at Toronto on Sept. 17, 1919, the Department of Transport ordered installation of steel fire bulkheads on all Canadian passenger vessels and the ASSINIBOIA was so altered at Midiand Ship- Ee during the winter of 199-50. t the same shipyard during the winter of 1953-5. the ASSINIBOIA was conv- antae to burn oil instead of coal, Her four scotch boilers were replaced by two Foster Wheeler o1l-fired Bars tube boilers and oil burners were installed, The top 12 feet of her stack was removed and the "squares" design wes painted on below the black top, Her three fir masts were replaced by two shorter steel structures, one in the foremast position and the other aft of her stack as is shown in the photo on page 2 of DMH Vol. 12, No. 7 (photo by Ken Smith), When she is viewed from about a mile distant, the alterations made the vessel appear longer. The safety equipment leaves no room for criticism, It includes magnetic compass, gyro compass, radar, echo sounder, radio direction finder and ship-toe shore radio=telephone, very second year she is dry-docked at Port Arthur and a government inspector makes a careful hull examination, MARINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DETROIT SINIBOIA CRUISE JUNE 1 RESERVATIONS GOING FAST ROBERT A, ZELEZNIK W. R. Williams