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ISLE ROYALE Photo from the William 4, McDonald Collection SHIPS THAT John Malone, keeper at Menagerie Island Lighthouse, Lake Superior, wrote in his diary NEVER DIE on July 30, 1885, "Re str. ISLE ROY. Sh r boat to depend on at any time, # 127 Sh always breaking do own, 1 hop comanacen A, Cook, USN, our Lighthouse Ins- Petar, will not place us fa hopeless| position a go have to deped on such a Boat’as the str” ESTE ROYALE. “She ie the only steamer running in the vicinity of this Lighthouse.” The ISLE ROYQLE (US 29909) was paar AGNES was renamed ISLE ROYALE on April 14, wood at Marine City, Mich., in 1879 a che Bh. barge AGNES, 55 tons, by Crockett MeELroy , of Remeasurements after the alterations inc- Marine City, for his own use. An engine was reased the tonnage from 55 to 91 tons. No installed the following year. The first ins- her dimensions are given in N.V.U.S. for pection as a steam barge was made on June l, Tees and 1885. Comparison with other steam- 1880, in the District of Port Huron. ers of like tonnage indicates are the other Me d the AGNES in 1884 to Cooley dimensions were paveron mately, 85) X17" x 8, et al at Duluth, operators of the Duluth and The steamer engaged in the reas and North Shore Line. Upper cabins with berths freight trade Sbetween 'Port Arthur and Tele for passengers were added at Duluth and the Royale. The Malone diary has this entry on Aug. 11, 1885. "I learned today that the str. ISLE ROYALE of Duluth was lost off WaSnington Harbor on the 26th (July) Sprung a leak and went down, all hands saved." The steamer was enroute from Port Arthur to Duauth. William A. McDonald A staunch and sturdy vessel, she served her owners well and saw active wervice on the deep sea during the war years. H r, the addi- n of two new ships to the fleet in 1955 be- gan to tell on the SHELTER The need for extensive repairs and a limited cargo space indicated that obsolescence was not too far LABRADOC Paul Sherlock away. 1958 she was purchased by N.M.Paterson As the 1961 navigation season progresses’, and Sons and renamed LABRADOC and for a short the ones busy canal town of Port Dalhousie time received a new lease on life. Surpris- took on a rather forlorn look as es ip fiset of ingly, many of her cargoes in the Paterson in- ceneilere auaicing t the scrapper's torch inc- terest consisted of pulpwood carried over the reased. On Aug. 9 the LABRADOC aadee eter name same route she had taken when in the Q&kO fleet to ee aa But the opening of the Seaway and the re- in 1922 that the Northern Ireland sulting demand for larger and more economical snipbull ding Co, in Londonderry launched the | ships saw her operate only part of the 1959 KK NEWS, Built for the Chicago Tribune season. She laid up at Kingston in the fall ed es fers « (now Quebec and rio Trans.) she of '59, nefer to ri in. Then in August of was 250' X 43" X17". He ss tonnage was 1961 and on the end o: she le the 1670 and net was 970, Her official number was | one-way voyage to Port Dalhousie where she wa: 6581. Designed for the pulpwood and news- cut up for scrap by Newman Steel of St.Catha- print trade, she was re-named SHELTER BAY in ines q Paul Sherlock