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    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.


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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

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