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      MICHIGAN was an iron paddlewheel gun-boat operating on the upper lakes from 1843 to . She was renamed WOLVERINE (after the state mascot of Michigan) in 1905 in order to free the name MICHIGAN for a new United Navy battleship. She was decommissioned in 1912, reinstated briefly during World War …

      Official No.: 114446; Previous Registration: British (1919) Later Registration: Belgium (1920) 239x37x21 Owned by Canadian Lake & Ocean Navigation Co.; Merchants Mutual Line 1911; to Canadian Northern Steamship Co. 1916 (operated by Canada Steamship Lines). Engine 21-35-57x36 by D. Rowan, Glasgow. Ocean service in both World Wars. War loss 13/11/42 …

      This is a special collection of scrapbooks covering Great Lakes history (and during World War II press coverage of the War of the Atlantic) assembled by Ivan S. Brookes of Hamilton between 1927 and 1970.

      Other Names: Thorold (1933); Official No.: 146589; 250x43x17 Owned by Quebec & Ontario Transportation Co. Built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd. Wallsend England 1922. Engine 16-26½-44x30 by North Eastern Marine Engineering Co., Newcastle England. War service World War II; lost 22/08/40 in English Channel on first trip. ; …

      Official No.: 95051; 245x40x21. Owned by numerous Great Lakes carriers. Built by Napier, Shanks & Bell, Glasgow Scotland 1888. Engine 21-33-54x36 by Dunsmuir & Jackson, Glasgow. Disabled 10/08/89 by collapse of new type "Brown" furnaces; "Cox" type substituted. 40' of stern rebuilt 1893: "made finer" (Globe) – had had difficulty …

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram, 10 May 1952     One Hundred Years of Service Schooner Days MLII (1052) by C. H. J. Snider WITH a clean wake of one hundred years of service astern the Royal Canadian Yacht Club is celebrating its ...

      Official No.: 147767; Previous Registration: British (1930) 253x43x18 Owned by Eastern Steamship Co., Port Colborne, Ont. 1923-1936; Upper Lakes & St. Lawrence Transportation Co. 1936-1944. Built by Furness Shipbuilding Co., Haverton Hill-on-Tees 1923. Engine 16-27-44x33 (maker uncertain). Requisitioned for World War II service 1941; struck mine 18/06/44 during Normandy invasion.

      Official No.: 116697; 56x14x6 Owned by Rat Portage Lumber Co. 1907, 1927; J. A. Mathieu, Fort Frances Ont. 1935. Launched 11/05/04. Laid up during World War I.

 Snider, C. H. J., Toronto Telegram, 24 Dec 1954     Portrait of a Skipper Schooner Days MCC (1200) by C. H. J. Snider TO sailors everywhere," (as we drink deep in ice-water at the Shellbacks) Merry Merry Christmas from Schooner ...

      Official No.: 134549; Later Registration: U.S.A. (1922) 202x18x9 Owned by J. K. L. Ross, Montreal; "torpedo boat" in World War I. Turbine engine.

      Other Names: Emeline; Official No.: 126420; Previous Registration: U.S.A. (1909) as Emeline 144x23x10. Owned by Sir John Eaton; to Dominion Government in World War I. Yacht.

      Official No.: 138503; 70x16x6 Owned by Abitibi Power & Paper Co. Fabricated by Peachey & West, Simcoe Ont. Alligator (warp tug). Beached up a creek off Departure Bay, Lake Abitibi after World War II. ; Final Location: On Lake Abitibi, Abandoned

      Official No.: 150909; 186x36x16 Owned by Pacific Salvage Co., Victoria 1936. Requisitioned by Admiralty 1939. Built by Bow & McLachlan, Paisley Scotland and launched 12/11/24. Wrecked Scottish Coast in World War II. ; Final Location: Scotland, Wrecked

      Other Names: Ashcroft (1926); Official No.: 152641; 546x60x28 Owned by Great Lakes Transportation Co. (James Playfair), Midland, 1925-1926; Canada Steamship Lines 1926-1969. Built by Midland Shipbuilding Co. and launched 18/11/24. Engine 24½-41½-72x48 By Hooven Owens Renschler, Hamilton Ohio (World War I surplus.) Scrapped Castellon, Spain, 1969.

 Marine Review (Cleveland, OH), 14 Jan 1892, p. 3     This would eventually be known as the Turret style of vessel design, several of which came to the Great Lakes before World War I. It was not a whaleback of the McDougall design.

      Official No.: 110131; Previous Registration: British (1912) 391x38x17 Owned by Dominion Atlantic Railway/Canadian Pacific Railway; to Boston & Yarmouth Steamship Co. 1912. Built by Earle & Co., Hull England and launched 19/07/98. Used as hospital ship in World War I.

      Official No.: 114684; 351x46x28 Owned by Bowring, St. John's Nfld. Built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, Newcastle England 1901. Engine 23½-39-66x48 (maker uncertain). Chartered to Dominion Coal Co., Glace Bay N. S. for several years before World War I.

 Oneida Evening Union (Oneida, NY), 8 Jun 1898     Lake Sailors the Best A Sioux City man who has during a good share of his life a been a sailor, in speaking the other evening of the Naval Reserve in case of war, said: "The sailors of our Great Lakes are the best sailors in the world. I have …

      Other Names: Narragansett; Official No.: 150828; Previous Registration: U.S.A. (1923) as Narragansett 323x48x19 Owned by Canada Steamship Lines. Built by Harlan & Hollingsworth, Wilmington Delaware 1912. Built for Long Island Sound but not used; hospital ship in English Channel in World War I; laid up again until sold to C.S.L.

      Black and white photograph of the CITY OF DOVER on the stocks in the shipyard at Port Dover, ON in 1916. John E. Paasch, the shipwright, and W. F. Kolbe, the owner, are probably in the photograph. Two men in World War I uniforms stand on the deck frames. A …