48 The Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord upon the shipment of grain to Kingston for forwarding down the Saint Lawrence River, and on the importation of coal from New York to Canadian ports. By 1910 sailing vessels had been relegated almost entirely into the coal trade, where they would persist in dwindling numbers until the late 1920s and early 1930s. The Katie Eccles was selected not only because of its exceptional historical records but also because it is representative of localized trade on Lake Ontario, having never sailed beyond the confines of the Upper Saint Lawrence and Lake Ontario in its forty-five-year career. Katie Eccles was built by William Jamieson, master shipwright at the H.B Rathbum & Sons Shipyard of Mill Point (now Deseronto), Ontario on the northeastern shores of the Bay of Quinte (Fig.2).* The vessel was first registered out of the port of Napanee, at 122 gross tons, 95 ft. (28.95 metres) length on deck, 24.5 ft. (7.46 metres) wide and 9.5 ft. (2.89 metres) hold depth and owned by Captain Dexter Eccles of Wolfe Island.* Figure 2 Katie Eccles (Digital/print image from the Fr. Edward J. Dowling, S.J. Marine Historical Collection, University of Detroit Mercy) ® The British Whig (Kingston, ON), 18 June 1878. 9 Ship Registrations 1787-1966, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, ON, (LAC), RG-42, C-2A71, Vol. 232, 11, 21,22, 1877.