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PRINCESS SHIPS THAT The wooden sidewheel steamer PRINCESS NEVER DIE was built at Carillon, Que., by P. # 123 Girard for the Ottawa River Navigat- don Company in 1872. Her dimensions were 141.9 feet long, 22.4 feet wide and 7.8 feet moulded depth, 527 gross tons, 298 net tons. This steamer was used in the night service be- tween Montreal and Carillon until 1881 when the night service was discontinued, owing chiefly to the opposition of a railway on the north side of the Ottawa between Montreal and Ottawa. Thereafter, she operated between Montreal, Carillon and Pointe Fortune in the market,freight and passenger service, besides making special ex- cursions for picnics and moonlights. PRINCESS had one boiler and her engine by R. W. SHEPHERD COLLECTION George Brush, had solid walking beam and single black stack. At the end of the 1913 season, the PRINCESS was laid up at Carillon. The freight and market business had been on the decline, especially dur- ing the previous 10 years when she had a steamer by the name of VICTORIA, owned by Capt. Mallette, of Rigaud, Que., running in opposition to her. A fire in 1914 which destroyed the Company's warehouse, waiting rooms and ticket office on Carillon Wharf, also damaged part of the super- structure of the PRINCESS. Over the ensuing years she went to pieces, mostly due to the force of the ice moving out in the spring, but a few frames and bottom planking are still to be seen among the reeds near the shore below the wharf. R. W. Shepherd RUFUS P. RANNEY downbound in Welland 7/9/61 On July 9, 1961, the steamer RUFUS P. RANNE was towed down the Welland Canal to keep a abe pace the shipbreakera and for the first time in ears there was no vessel b eo yeu eptherere el bearing that name This vessel was not 80 years old, but she bore the wooden freighter whieh Strangely enough, though bearing the TeerEi eer name, were not named for the same man. For several seasons both ships operated und~ er same name, the wooden thi Bradley fleet and’the steel i fe 3 Be a ° i tt Pr @ ow 4 ry oe ° 5 o oe o » 5 ° was christened by Miss Elizabeth Ranney at uperior, s., yard of the American Shipbuilding Co on April 25, 1908. With an overall length’ oF y 440 feet and a beam of 52 feet, the RANNEY Paul Sherlock Photo nas one of the smallest upper Lakes freighters built that year. e was assigned the official number 205088 and measured 3505 net tons. 4797 gross tons apt. Henry Stone took command on her first trip and very soon she was carrying capaci losiaiot’ 7500 erdue: tons of ores. terue ee himself had financed the ship but she was own and operated by the Triton Steanship the management ors were Genoa, Italy, Europé, enue erasing the €0-year-old name RUFUS 1916 “Triton placed the of G. A. Tor nee she became part of the Tomlin- In the erring of 1961 she was purchased by a scrap dealer and started toward RANNEY from the Dave Glick et Ee