The ''Dalwarnic'' was the name of a small

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-built freighter. She was built in

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(now

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) in 1921, by Port Arthur Shipbuilding. She was built for the Canadian Government which commissioned her as the ''Canadian Harvester''. She sailed under that name until 1926, when she was acquired by the Canadian Atlantic Transit Company. That is when she acquired the name she was best known by - ''Dalwarnic''. The vessel was designed with her bridge amidships, not the bridge right up in the bow that was traditional for lake freighters, although she spent much of her first two decades on the

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. On May 26, 1926 the ''Dalwarnic'' struck another freighter, the '' Nisbet Grammer'', off

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. The ''Nisbet Grammer'' sank, but her crew were rescued. She was the largest steel-hulled shipwreck in

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. The ''

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'' reported that the ''Dalwarnic'' was owned by the

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. The ''Dalwarnic'' was requisitioned into Government service in 1940, and carried supplies to

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outports. Sources differ as to what happened to the ''Dalwarnic'' after

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. The academic site

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collection has an old, faded, newspaper clipping, that asserts she was sold to Panamanian interests in 1946, before being sold to Turkish interests, who renamed her the '' Selcuk''. However a 2015 article about her collision with the ''Nisbet Grammer'' describes her being acquired by Swedish interests, and renamed ''Selcuk'', in 1948. Both sources agree that she was scrapped, in

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, in 1967.

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