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GERMANIC SHIPS THAT Of all the vessels that NEVER DIE | Sailed in and around # 156 Georgian Bay a genera- tion or two ago, few will be more alive in memory than the GERMANIC. Between regular runs she catered to excursions for al- most every kind of organization -- Sunday Schools, Lodges, Clubs, etce From any port to another, she took her happy human cargo, fre= quently over to Christian Island and its Indian Reserve, this trip being the most popular, but some- times just making a moonlight cruise around Nottawasaga Bay, the southern tip of Georgian Bay. Well- known skippers sailed her -- Captse Foote, Bassett and Black Pete Camp= bell. She was of wood construction, 190 x 32, 1014 get. Built in the dry- dock at Collingwood in 1898-9 to Photo from the Kenneth E. Smith Collection the order of the Great Northern Transit Company, she made her first trip on July 31, 1899. Her machinery had originally been installed in the OSWEGO BELLE b.oSt. Catharines in 1875, placed in the new PACIFIC in 1883 (burned, 1898), then into the GERMANIC. While lying at the Freight Shed dock at Collingwood in the spring of 1917, she was totally destroyed by fire. The hull was raised and lay in the mud of the West Harbour for a few years, then towed about two miles down the shore toward Wasaga Beach and run up on the ledges. During the depression of the 1930s, unemployed men broke up ev- ery scrap of her for firewood, thus she gave her very bones to man's enjoyment. We Me Prentice