ONTARIO
Date Registered:
[ 1890/04/30 ] Official Number: [ 94885 ]
transferred.
Mills List Update #4138
First Registration
Name: [ ONTARIO ] Location: [MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA ] Registriation: [ 6/1890 ] Date Registered: [
1890/04/30 ] Official Number: [ 94885 ]
Original Building Information:
Built By: [ THE POLSON IRON WORKS COMPANY LIMITED OWEN SOUND ] Built At: [ OWEN SOUND, ONTARIO, CANADA ]
Date Built: [ 1890 ] Length: [ 297.00 ] Beam: [ 41.30 ] Depth: [ 14.90 ] Gross: [ 1615.40 ] Net: [
1017.76 ]
Vessel Description:
Deck: [ ONE ] Type: [ CLINKER ] Stern: [ROUND ] Gallery: [NONE ] Figure: [ NO ] Frame: [ STEEL ]
Propulsion:
[ STEAM PADDLES ] Number of Masts: [ NONE ] Type of Rig: [ NOT ]. 297 x 41 x 15. Train ferry. Retired
1916
when Windsor-Detroit rail tunnel opened.
First Engine:
Type of Engine: [ HIGH PRESSURE CONDENSING ] Number of Engines: [TWO ] Date Built: [ 1890 ] Built by:
[THE
POLSON IRON WORKS COMPANY, LIMITED, TORONTO ] Horsepower: [ 3000.00 ] Unit Horsepower: [COMBINED ]. 50 x
114
Owned by
H. Beatty;
Canadian Pacific Railway 1899.
Rebuilt as a barge 1924
Closing Information
Date of Reason Closed: [1925/06/04 ] Reason Closed: [TRANSFERRED ]
Place Closed: [ PORT ARTHUR, ONTARIO, CANADA ]. Sank October 13, 1927, Outer Island, Lake
Superior.
Source of Data
N.A.C., RG-42, C-2470, VOL. 411, Mills List #4138.
NAIAD
Commissioned by Senator William E. Sanford.
Building Information:
Built by: THE POLSON IRON WORKS, Yacht, Length, 68 feet, steel
frame,
Beam 10 feet, Depth of hold, 3 feet, Draft 5 feet.
First Engine:
Fore and aft compound condensing type steam engine built by Polson Iron Works. Propeller driven.
Closing Information
Sold as scrap and burned in 1967
Source of Data
"Senator W.E. Sanford and his yacht NAIAD" by Bruce Rudolph, Freshwater, Volume 12, Number 1,
1997
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