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DALHOUSIE CITY Photo by William Hood SHIPS THAT DALHOUSIE CITY (Can, #130312). Single-screw steel ex- NEVER DIE cursion steamer, laid down as CITY OF DALHOUSIE but #115 launched as DALHOUSIE CITY, Built by the Collingwood Shipbuilding Co., Ltd., at Collingwood, Ont., as Hull #30. Her triple expansion engines were built by the same company having three cylinders of 18", 29" and 48" X 30", developing 115 hp. Hes damepaiens were 19916" Maye Xk, 2000". d by t Niagara, St.Catherines and Toronto Railway, she was pullt in T9211 to replace LAKESIDE on the Toronto-Port Dal- housie run, She was the running mate to the old GARDEN CITY most of the time until GARDEN CITY was replaced in 1920 by NORTHUMBER= LAND, Ownership was changed to the Dalhousie Navigation Co, when the C.N.R. took over the operations of the N.St.C. & T. from Mc Kenzie and Mann in 1918, but was still under the operations of the electric railway until she was sold in 1950, At the commencement of operations in 199 DALHOUSIE's running partner NORTHUMBERLAND was burned beyond repair at Port Dalhousie thus DALHOUSIE CITY ran by herself for the 1949 season, being put up for sale at the end of the season, Purchased in the spring of 1950 by the Lake Shore Lines, Ltd., of Montreal, Que., her name was changed to ISLAND KING II, She was used on the afternoon and evening cruises on the St.Lawrence River between Montreal and Sorel from 1950 until laid up in the fall of 1960, During the night of Nov. 1h, 1960, she caught fire under mysterious circumstances and was completely gutted while lying at her winter dock in the old Lachine Canal in Montreal, Her gross tonnage was 1,256 with a registered Sonne of 752, She was painted light cream with black trim, and had a single light cream stack with a black band at the top. During the 1920s she had a dance floor added to the stern of the upper deck, She was one of the first lake ships to have a radio and had the call letters VGYQ. James Roach ©