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Ship of the M on th - cont'd. Am ong st the resource mat e r i a l s from in the w r i t i n g of this feature were: ---- -- which came in f o r m a t i o n that 10. was useful "The Great Lakes Fisherman", Vol. 8, No. 12, October 1981. "How It Con tinued", a hist o r y of Kagawong, 1911-1979. "Yonder Our Island", a h i s t o r y of C o c k b u r n Island and its people. Ex cer pts from "The M a n i t o u l i n Recorder" and other periodicals. We are also pl eased to have a pho t o c o p y of the pages of the Course Book kept by Capt a i n Ad am Casson of the WINONA. With entries dated from 1922 through 1930, it shows the compass courses and ru nning times amongst all of the variou s ports and points of reference along the North Channel of Lake Huron. It is an in valuable record of the art of n a v i g a t i o n in the years before the advent of ele ctrical and c o m p u t e r i z e d aids to lake sailing. * * * A WINONA Postscript: We were in te r e s t e d to note, as we were pre p a r i n g our h i s t o r y of WINONA, that she did not seem to have been involved in very man y accidents during her years of service on the North Channel, something a bit unusual c o n s i d e r i n g the tre ac he ro us nature of those waters. After we had p r e p a r e d our final copy of the feature, we re ceived word from Buck Lon ghurst, who advised that he finally had been able to run down i n f o r ma t i o n on two problems that affected W I N O N A - and both of them oc curred during the same month! We could not resist sque ezing them onto this page before it went to the printer! It seems that, early in May of 1908, when WI N O N A still was r e l a t i v e l y new to the waters of the N orth Channel, she suffered rudder p r o b l e m s whilst she was off C o c k b u r n Island. Unfortunately, no further detail is available. Just one week later, WINONA again en c o u n t e r e d troubles in the same ge neral area. In fact, she mana g e d to run ag round on Cape Burley, on the shore of C o c kburn Island. WI NO NA did not sustain any significant damage in the stranding, and she was re f l o a t e d with the a s sistance of the tugs EDNA IVAN and D Y M E N T . If any of our readers can e n lighten us conce r n i n g exploit s of WINONA, either on Lake Erie or on the Huron, we w ou ld be pl eased to hear from them. * * * * * any other i n t e r e s t i n g North Channel of Lake L OST BUT NOW F OUND One of the most famous sailin g vessels ever to operate on the Great Lakes was the fo u r - m a s t e d schooner M I N N E D O S A (C. 94884), w h i c h was launched on A p ril 26, 1890, at Kingston. She was of full canal dimensions, 2 4 2 . 0 x 3 8 . 0 x 1 7 . 0, 1315 Gross and 1041 Net. L a t terly cut down to a "schooner -barge" by the M o n tr ea l T r a n s p o r t a t i o n Comp a n y Ltd., she met her end on O ctober 20, 1905, when, (o ver)loaded with grain for Kingston, and in tow of the steamer W E ST MO UN T (I) and a c c o m panied by the barge MELROSE, she e n c o u n t e r e d heavy weathe r on Lake Huron. Things got p r o g r e s s i v e l y worse as the tow cr ossed the mouth of Sagi n a w Bay, and e v e n t u a l l y M I N N E D O S A simply d i s a p p e a r e d from sight and foundered. WES T M O U N T was able to save the MELROSE, but MINNED O S A ' s ten c r e w m em be rs were lost with their ship. It was r e c e n t l y reported, however, that Detroit b u s i n e s s m a n and diver David Trotter had, on May 10th, located the w reck of M I N N E D O S A in some 250 feet of water off Ha r b o r Beach, Michigan, a l t h o u g h not in the p o s ition where it was supposed she w ould lie. The wreck is said to be in good c o n dition and readi ly identifiable. M I N N E D O S A was Ship of the M o n t h No. 27 W E ST MO UN T was No. 73 in March of 1978. * * * * in our January, 1973, issue, while *