Rapids King
Scanned from a post card sent to my mother by my father and is postmarked July 20,1937, about four years before they were married.
"There were three ships that handled the passenger trade between Prescott and Montreal back then. These were the Rapids King, the Rapids Queen and the Rapids Prince. The Rapids King was the first ship designed for the thrilling run through the rapids section of the St. Lawrence River. Built in 1907 by the Canadian Shipbuilding Company at Toronto, she carried passengers for the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company which later became the Canada Steamship Lines. The SS Rapids King, 245 feet long had a triple expansion engine and had two coal-fired scotch boilers. Drawing six feet and five inches of water, she was really too large for the dangerous rapids run and frequently ran aground. As a result, she was placed on a regular run at the western end of Lake Ontario and eventually between Chatham Ontario and Detroit Michigan. Following the Great Depression the Rapids King was laid up in Sorel, Quebec until 1949, when she was towed to Kingston and broken up for scrap."
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Rapids King
Scanned from a post card sent to my mother by my father and is postmarked July 20,1937, about four years before they were married.
"There were three ships that handled the passenger trade between Prescott and Montreal back then. These were the Rapids King, the Rapids Queen and the Rapids Prince. The Rapids King was the first ship designed for the thrilling run through the rapids section of the St. Lawrence River. Built in 1907 by the Canadian Shipbuilding Company at Toronto, she carried passengers for the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company which later became the Canada Steamship Lines. The SS Rapids King, 245 feet long had a triple expansion engine and had two coal-fired scotch boilers. Drawing six feet and five inches of water, she was really too large for the dangerous rapids run and frequently ran aground. As a result, she was placed on a regular run at the western end of Lake Ontario and eventually between Chatham Ontario and Detroit Michigan. Following the Great Depression the Rapids King was laid up in Sorel, Quebec until 1949, when she was towed to Kingston and broken up for scrap."
The above quote from: www.thousandislandslife.com/BackIssues/Archive/tabid/393/...