Prince Albert, 1862
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Built in 1841 near Prescott, Ontario, the Prince Albert was 105 feet long and 28 feet wide. It was originally built as a Rideau Canal passenger boat, with thirty berths. It was turned into a towboat around 1860, and was reported by the 1861 Montreal Gazette as "Too large, too lofty and altogether too good a vessel for the simple purpose of towing barges." It caused the sinking of the Propeller on the Rideau Canal in 1842, after the Prince Albert rammed into the Propeller near Kingston, Ontario. It was later damaged by fire in 1854, again near Kingston, before being fixed near Prescott, Ontario in 1857. It caught fire again on March 18, 1862 in Ottawa, likely while in its winter berth, and was destroyed.
