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oe Veerae Mise oer wrrgg 2 PEERLESS SHIPS THAT The iron hull of eveenes PEERLESS was NEVER DIE aad brica’ vee in_ England at Newcastle- # 122 on-Tyne in 1872, shipped in sec- ions to can ada and vessel built at Ottawa, Ont., in 1873 fi gation See L by Peter Kilduff, an smith and iron worker. Superstructure by Curry, senna The PI SS was not only the first iron- hulled steamer of the company, but was the lar- gee ipaneeneey steamer that ever operated on a River. 8 licensed for 1,100 day passengers. Her but dimensions were length 202 feet, width 28.5 fegt and moulded depth 8.4 feet, 1,039 gross tons 570 net tons. ler beam engine by Gilbert had cylinder 38" 1 10" stroke, two boilers and high twin stacks a- breast and large radial she was the first steamer on the Ottawa to be lighted by electricit run between Ottawa and Grenville through passengers for Montreal were conveyed from Grenville to Carillon by the Carillon & Grenville Railway, owned by the company, to over- cone the smal: anal between these places, pas- sengers transferring to steamer PRINCE OF WALES at Carillon for Montreal. One day in mid-season 1885 as PEERLESS Ottawa from her was re- daily run and approa- turning to Stean barge STEPHEN eoneanes schrs. SAM FLINT and NELLIE MA- SON. Where was thi: picture taken? Bill McDonald, Ken Smith and Fr.’ Dowling be- do you think? From the R. W. Shepherd collection. ching Montebello wharf, pote was found to be on fire. Quick work of her captain, Alexander Bowie and his crew in getting her alongside Monteperle wharf,enabled all on board to scramble t ppears a disgruntled member of the who had been given his notice of dismissal, but her iron hull was cut in two, as she was too large to navigat Ottawa canals, and the two sections towed to Montreal whe in 1886, ‘she 185 feet and rebuilt inte the EIPRESS, using the same beam engine the EMPRESS she continued on the same Orta va-frenviiie route t_ down to the nae Carillon, to replace the ein March, iF rom replaced tne the eee rout: EMPRESS” continued for years as an excu! shooting Lachine fapids 1931 canons She and aid e was seescbed in From 1920 she had been owned by a syndicate in Ottawa operating under the name of Empress Navi- gation Company. R. W. Shepherd