Origin unknown

Builder: J.J. Taylor & Sons Ltd. Toronto, Ont.	Commissionned: May 10, 1943
Launched: May 10, 1942	Disposal: June 22, 1945

Career:

Sold September 18, 1945 by WAC to W.F. Christie, Toronto, Ontario  for $3,000 and renamed Eighty-Eight (# 174989).

Eng: 2 Hall-Scott, petrol engines.

Owner (1952-67): Peter Lepage, Toronto & Penetanguishne, Ontario,  renamed Penetang Eighty-Eight (July 1954) . Re-engined with diesels (1964).

Owner (1967-1975):  R.J. Frame & Sons Ltd., Toronto.

Eng:  2 GM 6 cyl. diesel engines, 330H.P.

Used as supply and passenger ferry up eastern Georgian Bay shore, Penetanguishne to Wah-Wah-Taysee. Traded in (Fall of 1976)  to Marlin Yachts of Gananoque who built a new boat for Jack Frame (Miss Midland).

Sold May 30, 1974 to Kingston & The Islands Boat Lines Ltd. , Kingston, Ontario and renamed Olympia III.

March 20, 1975, sank in the Gananoque River at Gananoque, Ontario.  It was berthed in the Gananoque River, for a refit and overhaul I believe, in the spring of 1975 when it was hit by a log coming downriver and sank at the dock. It was later refloated.

Sold to some sea cadets from Hamilton and almost sunk again going up Lake Ontario. It was pumped out and  patched up by a dive contractor who took possession for the vessel  because unpaid bills. Moored in Hamilton at the CSL dock where he was living on it and attempting to restore it ( around 1979-1980).

Reportedly burnt, no records, possible the ML seen beached and abandonned at Lachine, Quebec.

July 23, 1998, register closed (Transport Canada).

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Eighty-Eight

Penetang Eighty-Eight

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Midland Penetang Eighty-Eight

Olympia III