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13. Lay-Up List - cont'd. Quebec: BONAVISTA, JACQUES DESGAGNES, MATHILDA DESGAGNES, FORT LAUZON, FORT MINGAN, FORT RAMEZAY, GRUE-DES-ILES, ISABEL NO. 1, LOUIS JOLLIET, LUCIEN L., NICOLET, PETREL Y, RADISSON, TRANS-ST.LAURENT. St. Joseph de la Rive: J.A. Z. DESGAGNES. Montreal: ADAM E. CORNELIUS removed to Halifax. ENERCHEM FUSION placed back in service, first week of February. FEDER GULF renamed AGIOS NICOLAOS 1, but still wintering at Montreal. Buffalo: To previous list, add SAM LAUD. Ashtabula: To previous list, add AMERICAN MARINER. Cleveland: From previous list, delete PAUL H. TOWNSEND. Ecorse: S. T. CRAPO, GEORGE A. STINSON. (List not previously available. ) Detroit: To previous list, add PAUL H. TOWNSEND. Sarnia: Delete tug GLENADA, add W. M. VASY ASH (brief lay-up between winter trips on upper lakes). Goderich: Add tugs DOVER and GLENADA to previous list. Owen Sound: Add schooner CAROLYN ROSE (which sank and was raised last year). For their assistance with this information, and for other reports which ar rived too late for inclusion or credit in the last issue, we extend our most sincere thanks to Rene Beauchamp, Brian Bernard, Duff Brace, Cy Hudson, Ger ry Ouderkirk, Terry Sechen and Fred Wagar. * * * * * KAKABEKA REVISITED Our Ship of the Month No. 1 6 9 , which appeared in the December issue, was the little ferry steamer KAKABEKA, which was built at Toronto in 1885 by Melanc thon Simpson, and which served in the Fort William/Port Arthur area until her loss by stranding in December 1895. The feature was prepared for us by member Gerry Ouderkirk, of Toronto, and we received much favourable comment from our readers concerning the article. We should draw to the attention of our readers, however, the fact that an error crept into our transcription of Gerry's history of the steamer. In the paragraph at the bottom of Page 11 of the December issue, there appear ed a list of the captains who commanded MOCKING BIRD, the steamer which re placed KAKABEKA after the latter was sold by Marks & Company to the Servais Brothers. In fact, the listing of captains referred to those gentlemen who commanded KAKABEKA during her years of Lakehead service, and not MOCKING BIRD. Gerry has found an interesting reference in the "Port Arthur Daily Senti nel", which stated that, on May 2, 1885, Mr. Thomas Marks took a steamer to Owen Sound. It would seem probable that Marks then took a day train from Owen Sound to Toronto to see how the work was progressing on his new steamer. It will be recalled that KAKABEKA did not depart Toronto for the Northwest until May 14th, 1885. As part of our feature, we mentioned that when KAKABEKA finally arrived at Port Arthur on May 26, she was towing the schooner MIDLAND ROVER, and we gave some brief details concerning this ship. Gerry Ouderkirk has located an item in the "Marine Record", November 19, 1885, to the effect that "the str. CITY OF MONTREAL is wintering at Owen Sound, where she is being cut down to a steam barge and receiving a $ 7 , 5 0 0 overhaul which includes a new boiler. She will tow MIDLAND ROVER this (next) season." Unfortunately, MIDLAND ROVER was involved in a sinking at Toronto's Western Gap on Decem ber 4 , 1 8 8 5 , in which a sailor and the vessel's cook were drowned. * * * * *