Batiscan

The Batiscan was launched as the Anticosti from the Short Brothers yard in Pallion, Sunderland, on November 17, 1911. “Accommodation for officers, with saloon neatly panelled in oak, is fitted in steel house on forward bridge, with captain's room and office above,” reported the Marine Engineer. “The chart and wheel-house is placed on top of captain's house, with flying bridges on tops of saloon and captain's house. The engineers are berthed in houses alongside of casing, and crew in topgallant forecastle.” The Batiscan was chartered by her Liverpool owners to Sydney Cape Breton & Montreal Steamship Co (Dominion Coal), and she ran coal from Sydney to Montreal in summer and to Halifax, Saint John and Boston in the winter. She was en route Sydney to St. John when she vanished off Gannet Rock, presumed to be a victim of a vicious westerly gale on March 15, 1918.

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