Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: Midland Prince OTHER NAME(s): - OFFICIAL NO: C116669 DATE OF LOSS: July, 1969 REASON: Scrapped LOCATION: Spain RIG TYPE: Prop., bulk freighter, self unloading HULL TYPE: Steel BUILDER: Collingwood Shipbuilding & Engineering - 1906 Built for Midland Navigation Co. OWNER(S): Canada Steamship Line, Ltd. MASTER: - TONNAGE: 6,339 gt DIMENSIONS: 466 x 55 x 31 CASUALTIES: 0 SURVIVORS: 0 At the time of her launch at the Collingwood Shipbuilding Company she was the largest ship ever built in Canada. Jul. 1910 - Carried largest grain cargo to date (560,000 bushels) from Port Arthur to Midland. 1917 - Collision with steamship IMPERIAL. Aug. 1928 - Along with three or four tugs helped to release the HURONIC which had grounded at Lucile Reef. Oct. 1932 - En route from Fairport, Ohio to Key Harbor with coal when she grounded in heavy seas and hazy weather. A tugboat and a lighter, the MAPLECOURT, aided in effecting her release. 6 Aug. 1940 - Seventeen year old deckhand, Charles Keillor, slid to the bottom of the coal bin and was crushed to death. Apr. 1965 - Drifted from the shipping channel in high winds and went aground on a sandbar in Lake Ontario. Lightered and floated free. Sold for scrapping in 1968 and taken to Spain. ======================================================================== Sources: The American Marine Engineer, Vol 1-2, December 1906 - p. 27 The Montreal Gazette, 8 December 1906 Milwaukee Sentinel, 12 July 1910 Toronto World, 17 March 1917 Green's Marine Directory of the Great Lakes, 1916 The Montreal Gazette, 17 August 1928 The Montreal Gazette, 19 October 1932 The Montreal Gazette, 6 August 1940 Pittsburgh Press, 15 April 1965 Last updated 16 August 2014