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mishaps while owned by Mills. The CITY OF CONCORD - Part II (continued) ST. ALBANS Fr. Dowling Collection CITY OF CONCORD raised by December 28. In mid-January a survey was held on the steamer and the damages were set at $9,800. It had originally been thought that the CITY OF CONCORD would be towed to Port Huron, when weather permitted, so that the steamer might be rebuilt there. However, these plans were never carried out. The steamer sat unrepaired through the 1894 season and the beginning of 1895. In June of 1895, the CONCORD was purchased by McMoran & Company of Port Huron. Apparently McMoran rebuilt the vessel and sold it in September of 1895 to Nelson Mills and others of Marysville, Michigan. © The only real change in the steamers appearance as a result of the rebuilding was a second mast. The CITY OF CONCORD ran with almost no The only exception occurring on September 29, 1900 when the vessel went aground at the head of Walpole Island in the St. Clair River. The vessel, which was upbound light, went out three feet forward. She was pulled off several days later apparently uninjured. In April of 1901, the CONCORD became the Property of the Port Huron Navigation Company. This was not really a major change in ownership, for Nelson Mills is given as president of the company. By 1903 the steamer had been around 35 years and she was showing her age. The insurance underwriters had refused to rate the hull due to its poor condition. However, this did not prevent her owners from operating her that season and the next. In October of 1904 it was announced that the vessel would receive a thorough rebuild over the upcoming winter. The intention may have been there, but it seems second thoughts were given to the rebuild, and apparently the conclusion was made not to rebuild the vessel. The CONCORD, thus began 1905 more or less the same as she had finished the 1904 season. It would be safe to say that by 1906 the situation could not have improved. This is fairly obvious from the fact that on May 23, after having loaded 476 tons of coal at Cleveland, she sprang a severe leak, shortly after clearing the harbor. Her master, Captain Sewell Moore, brought her about only to have her sink inside the harbor at Cleveland. Apparently wrecking operations were begun immediately by Walter Metcalf, but were unsuccessful. He abandoned the effort. A second attempt was made by D.M. Davis, which involved the lightering of her deckload and the building of a cofferdam about the vessel. This resulted in the refloating of the vessel on June 15. The CITY OF CONCORD was repaired in just over a week at Cleveland and cleared for Port Huron by June 25. (Considering her deteriorated condition it would seem that considereably more time would be required to make her seaworthy.)