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# Meynes

Meynes (French pronunciation:) is a commune in the Gard department in southern France.

## Geography
### Climate

Meynes has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification Csa). The average annual temperature in Meynes is 15.0 °C (59.0 °F). The average annual rainfall is 734.5 mm (28.92 in) with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around 24.4 °C (75.9 °F), and lowest in January, at around 6.6 °C (43.9 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Meynes was 43.5 °C (110.3 °F) on 28 June 2019; the coldest temperature ever recorded was −11.0 °C (12.2 °F) on 15 January 1985.
Climate data for Meynes (1981−2010 normals, extremes 1966−2020) :
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 21.0 (69.8) | 25.7 (78.3) | 29.4 (84.9) | 30.5 (86.9) | 35.0 (95.0) | 43.5 (110.3) | 38.9 (102.0) | 41.0 (105.8) | 35.8 (96.4) | 32.0 (89.6) | 27.0 (80.6) | 20.5 (68.9) | 43.5 (110.3) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 10.8 (51.4) | 12.3 (54.1) | 16.1 (61.0) | 19.0 (66.2) | 23.6 (74.5) | 27.9 (82.2) | 31.0 (87.8) | 30.5 (86.9) | 25.8 (78.4) | 20.8 (69.4) | 14.5 (58.1) | 11.1 (52.0) | 20.3 (68.5) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 6.6 (43.9) | 7.6 (45.7) | 10.7 (51.3) | 13.4 (56.1) | 17.6 (63.7) | 21.5 (70.7) | 24.4 (75.9) | 24.0 (75.2) | 20.0 (68.0) | 15.8 (60.4) | 10.3 (50.5) | 7.2 (45.0) | 15.0 (59.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 2.3 (36.1) | 2.8 (37.0) | 5.4 (41.7) | 7.7 (45.9) | 11.6 (52.9) | 15.2 (59.4) | 17.8 (64.0) | 17.4 (63.3) | 14.2 (57.6) | 10.8 (51.4) | 6.0 (42.8) | 3.3 (37.9) | 9.6 (49.3) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −11.0 (12.2) | −8.5 (16.7) | −7.5 (18.5) | −2.5 (27.5) | 0.0 (32.0) | 5.5 (41.9) | 7.5 (45.5) | 8.8 (47.8) | 5.0 (41.0) | −1.0 (30.2) | −5.7 (21.7) | −9.0 (15.8) | −11.0 (12.2) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 63.2 (2.49) | 45.8 (1.80) | 42.5 (1.67) | 67.5 (2.66) | 56.9 (2.24) | 36.1 (1.42) | 30.3 (1.19) | 41.3 (1.63) | 104.9 (4.13) | 104.2 (4.10) | 80.0 (3.15) | 61.8 (2.43) | 734.5 (28.92) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 5.5 | 5.1 | 4.8 | 7.0 | 6.0 | 4.0 | 2.7 | 3.4 | 5.2 | 7.4 | 7.0 | 6.4 | 64.5 |
| Source: Météo-France ||||||||||||||
# Candidates of the 1916 Tasmanian state election

The 1916 Tasmanian state election was held on 23 March 1916.

## Retiring Members
### Labor

* Vincent Barker MHA (Denison)
* Lyndhurst Giblin MHA (Denison)

### Liberal

* Daniel Ryan MHA (Franklin)

## House of Assembly

Sitting members are shown in bold text. Tickets that elected at least one MHA are highlighted in the relevant colour. Successful candidates are indicated by an asterisk (*).

### Bass

Six seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending three seats. The Liberal Party was defending three seats.
| Labor candidates | Liberal candidates | Independent candidates |
| George Becker* Allan Guy* Charles Howroyd* James McDonald William Sheehan | John Hayes* Alexander Marshall* James Newton Robert Sadler* | Richard Russell |

### Darwin

Six seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending three seats. The Liberal Party was defending three seats, although Joshua Whitsitt was running as an independent.
| Labor candidates | Liberal candidates | Independent candidates |
| James Belton* Leonard Bennett James Ogden* Benjamin Watkins* | Edward Hobbs* Stephen Margetts Herbert Payne* George Pullen | Joshua Whitsitt* |

### Denison

Six seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending four seats. The Liberal Party was defending two seats.
| Labor candidates | Liberal candidates |
| John Cleary* Robert Cosgrove John Lewis William Sheridan* Walter Woods* | William Burgess* William Fullerton* Sir Elliott Lewis* John McPhee |

### Franklin

Six seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending three seats. The Liberal Party was defending three seats.
| Labor candidates | Liberal candidates |
| David Dicker* John Earle* George Martin William Shoobridge* | Frederick Burbury* Arthur Cotton John Evans* Alexander Hean* |

### Wilmot

Six seats were up for election. The Labor Party was defending two seats. The Liberal Party was defending four seats.
| Labor candidates | Liberal candidates | Independent candidates |
| John Heffernan Joseph Lyons* Henry McFie Michael O'Keefe* | Ernest Blyth* William Connell Herbert Hays* Edmund Hingston Walter Lee* Edward Mulcahy* Alfred Stokes | Norman Cameron |
# Metal-formaldehyde complex

A metal-formaldehyde complex is a coordination complex in which a formaldehyde ligand has two bonds to the metal atom(s) (η$^2$-CH$_2$O). This type of ligand has been reported in both monometallic and bimetallic complexes.

## History

Metal-formaldehyde complexes have been reported for tungsten (W), osmium (Os), vanadium (V), rhenium (Re), zirconium (Zr), ruthenium (Ru), and niobium (Nb).
In 1984, Green and coworkers reported the yellow crystalline solid W(PMe$_3$)$_4$(η$^2$-CH$_2$O)H$_2$. It was the result of the addition of methanol to W(PMe$_3$)$_4$(η$^2$-CH$_2$PMe$_2$)H.
W(PMe$_3$)$_4$(η$^2$-CH$_2$O)H$_2$ can be hydrogenated to give W(PMe$_3$)$_4$(MeO)H$_3$, and then further hydrogenated to reform methanol and generate W(PMe$_3$)$_4$H$_4$. In 1986, Green and Parkin demonstrated further reactivities of W(PMe$_3$)$_4$(η$^2$-CH$_2$O)H$_2$. Upon addition of CO or CO$_2$, W(PMe$_3$)$_4$(η$^2$-CH$_2$O)H$_2$ produces fac-W(PMe$_3$)$_3$(CO)$_3$ and W(PMe$_3$)$_4$(κ$^2$-O$_2$CO)H$_2$, respectively, much like its precursor.
W(PMe$_3$)$_4$(η$^2$-CH$_2$O)H$_2$ also reacts with buta-1,3-diene to give W(PMe$_3$)$_3$(η$^2$-CH$_2$O)(η-C$_4$H$_6$).
W(PMe$_3$)$_4$(η$^2$-CH$_2$O)H$_2$ can also be used as a route to further oxometallacycles by the addition of ethylene and rapid cooling to –80°C. The resultant green-colored crystals are composed of W(OCH$_2$CH$_2$CH$_2$)(PMe$_3$)$_2$(η$^2$-C$_2$H$_4$)$_2$, with either both ethylene ligands on the equatorial plane or the ethylene ligand cis- to the ligating oxygen in the axial direction. Further reaction with ethylene produces trans-W(PMe$_3$)$_4$(η$^2$-C$_2$H$_4$)$_2$ and W(PMe$_3$)$_4$(CO)H$_2$.
# Canton of Roanne-Sud

The canton of Roanne-Sud is a French former administrative division located in the department of Loire and the Rhone-Alpes region. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. It had 36,417 inhabitants (2012).
The canton comprised the following communes:
* Lentigny
* Ouches
* Pouilly-les-Nonains
* Riorges
* Roanne (partly)
* Saint-Jean-Saint-Maurice-sur-Loire
* Saint-Léger-sur-Roanne
* Villemontais
* Villerest
# Canton of Roanne-1

The canton of Roanne-1 is an administrative division of the Loire department, in eastern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Roanne.
It consists of the following communes:
* Mably
* Roanne (partly)
# Miathyria

Miathyria is a Neotropical genus of dragonflies. They are commonly known as Hyacinth Gliders. One species, M. marcella, occurs in North America. They are associated with floating plants, especially Water Hyacinth or Water Lettuce.
The genus contains only two species:
* Miathyria marcella (Selys in Sagra, 1857) - Hyacinth Glider
* Miathyria simplex (Rambur, 1842) - Dwarf Glider
# Caníaco, Utuado, Puerto Rico

Caníaco is a barrio in the municipality of Utuado, Puerto Rico. Its population in 2010 was 198.

## History

Caníaco was in Spain's gazetteers until Puerto Rico was ceded by Spain in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War under the terms of the Treaty of Paris of 1898 and became an unincorporated territory of the United States. In 1899, the United States Department of War conducted a census of Puerto Rico finding that the population of Caníaco barrio was 631.
# Capela de Nossa Senhora das Salvas

The Capela de Nossa Senhora das Salvas is a chapel in Sines Municipality, Setúbal District, Portugal. It is classified as a national monument.
# Capivara River (Roraima)

The Capivara River is a river of Roraima state in northern Brazil.
# Capivari River

There are several rivers named Capivari River in Brazil:
* Capivari River (Bahia)
* Capivari River (Mato Grosso do Sul)
* Capivari River (Minas Gerais)
* Capivari River (Paraná)
* Capivari River (Paranapanema River)
* Capivari River (Pardo River tributary)
* Capivari River (Rio de Janeiro)
* Capivari River (Santa Catarina)
* Capivari River (Tietê River tributary)
# Staël

Staël is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Anne Louise Germaine de Staël (“Madame de Staël”) (1766–1817), French woman of letters and political theorist
* Nicolas de Staël (1914–1955), French painter of Russian origin
* Staël von Holstein, Baltic German baronial family
# Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's slalom C-2

The men's canoe slalom C-2 event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 8 - 11 August at the Deodoro Olympic Whitewater Stadium.
The gold medal was won by Ladislav Škantár & Peter Škantár of Slovakia.
It was the last appearance of the men's C-2, replaced by the women's C-1 for Tokyo 2020 in order to bring the slalom canoeing programme to gender equality (in 2016 and before, there were 3 men's events to only 1 women's event).

## Schedule

All times are Brasília Time (UTC−3).
| Date | Round |
| Monday 8 August 2016 | Heats |
| Thursday 11 August 2016 | Semi-final |
| Thursday 11 August 2016 | Final |

## C-2 slalom men

| Order | Name | Preliminary Heats | Preliminary Heats | Preliminary Heats | Preliminary Heats | Preliminary Heats | Preliminary Heats | Semifinal | Semifinal | Semifinal | Final | Final | Final |
| Order | Name | 1st Ride | Pen. | 2nd Ride | Pen. | Best | Order | Time | Pen. | Order | Time | Pen. | Order |
| | Ladislav Škantár & Peter Škantár (SVK) | 100.89 | 0 | 106.00 | 8 | 100.89 | 1 | 110.42 | 4 | 6 | 101.58 | 0 | 1 |
| | David Florence & Richard Hounslow (GBR) | 103.27 | 0 | DNS | - | 103.27 | 3 | 109.60 | 2 | 3 | 102.01 | 0 | 2 |
| | Gauthier Klauss & Matthieu Péché (FRA) | 103.35 | 2 | 102.43 | 0 | 102.43 | 2 | 110.19 | 4 | 5 | 103.24 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 | Franz Anton & Jan Benzien (GER) | 103.43 | 0 | 114.35 | 4 | 103.43 | 5 | 107.93 | 0 | 1 | 103.58 | 0 | 4 |
| 5 | Marcin Pochwała & Piotr Szczepański (POL) | 115.36 | 2 | 159.68 | 52 | 115.36 | 11 | 110.17 | 0 | 4 | 104.97 | 0 | 5 |
| 6 | Mikhail Kuznetsov & Dmitry Larionov (RUS) | 167.26 | 54 | 107.39 | 0 | 107.39 | 8 | 112.39 | 6 | 8 | 106.70 | 0 | 6 |
| 7 | Luka Božič & Sašo Taljat (SLO) | 105.21 | 0 | 113.41 | 2 | 105.21 | 6 | 111.14 | 4 | 7 | 107.73 | 2 | 7 |
| 8 | Jonáš Kašpar & Marek Šindler (CZE) | 104.32 | 0 | 103.43 | 4 | 103.43 | 4 | 108.09 | 4 | 2 | 108.35 | 4 | 8 |
| 9 | Lukas Werro & Simon Werro (SUI) | 158.47 | 54 | 110.56 | 2 | 110.56 | 9 | 115.40 | 4 | 9 | 111.52 | 0 | 9 |
| 10 | Casey Eichfeld & Devin McEwan (USA) | 112.33 | 4 | 117.19 | 6 | 112.33 | 10 | 116.26 | 2 | 10 | 119.85 | 8 | 10 |
| 11 | Charles Corrêa & Anderson Oliveira (BRA) | 107.71 | 2 | 106.14 | 2 | 106.14 | 7 | 116.49 | 6 | 11 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
| 12 | Shota Sasaki & Tsubasa Sasaki (JPN) | 122.04 | 12 | 119.04 | 6 | 119.04 | 12 | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance | did not advance |
# Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's C-2 1000 metres

The men's canoe sprint C-2 1,000 metres at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro took place between 19 and 20 August at Lagoa Stadium. The medals were presented by Bernard Rajzman, IOC member, Brazil and Jens Perlwitz, Board Member of the ICF.

## Competition format

The competition comprised heats, semifinals, and a final round.

## Schedule

All times are Brasilia Time (UTC-03:00)
| Date | Time | Round |
| Friday, 19 August 2016 | 9:21 10:21 | Heats Semifinals |
| Saturday, 20 August 2016 | 9:14 | Finals |

## Results
### Heats
#### Heat 1

| Rank | Canoer | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Erlon Silva Isaquias Queiroz | Brazil | 3:33.269 | FA |
| 2 | Dmytro Ianchuk Taras Mishchuk | Ukraine | 3:35.284 | SF |
| 3 | Ilya Shtokalov Ilya Pervukhin | Russia | 3:43.105 | SF |
| 4 | Martin Marinov Ferenc Szekszárdi | Australia | 4:07.372 | SF |
| 5 | Mussa Chamaune Joaquim Lobo | Mozambique | 4:14.002 | SF |

#### Heat 2

| Rank | Canoer | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Sebastian Brendel Jan Vandrey | Germany | 3:33.482 | FA |
| 2 | Jorge Dayán Serguey Torres | Cuba | 3:34.939 | SF |
| 3 | Róbert Mike Henrik Vasbányai | Hungary | 3:35.501 | SF |
| 4 | Filip Dvořák Jaroslav Radoň | Czech Republic | 3:36.818 | SF |
| 5 | Mateusz Kamiński Michał Kudła | Poland | 3:44.717 | SF |
| 6 | Gerasim Kochnev Serik Mirbekov | Uzbekistan | 4:00.330 | SF |

### Semifinals
#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Canoer | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Dmytro Ianchuk Taras Mishchuk | Ukraine | 3:38.384 | FA |
| 2 | Filip Dvořák Jaroslav Radoň | Czech Republic | 3:42.166 | FA |
| 3 | Róbert Mike Henrik Vasbányai | Hungary | 3:56.126 | FA |
| 4 | Mussa Chamaune Joaquim Lobo | Mozambique | 4:23.965 | FB |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Canoer | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Jorge Dayán Serguey Torres | Cuba | 3:40.192 | FA |
| 2 | Gerasim Kochnev Serik Mirbekov | Uzbekistan | 3:40.772 | FA |
| 3 | Ilya Shtokalov Ilya Pervukhin | Russia | 3:42.127 | FA |
| 4 | Mateusz Kamiński Michał Kudła | Poland | 3:43.467 | FB |
| 5 | Martin Marinov Ferenc Szekszárdi | Australia | 4:13.754 | FB |

### Finals
#### Final B

| Rank | Canoer | Country | Time |
| 1 | Mateusz Kamiński Michał Kudła | Poland | 3:52.964 |
| 2 | Martin Marinov Ferenc Szekszárdi | Australia | 4:10.238 |
| 3 | Mussa Chamaune Joaquim Lobo | Mozambique | 4:38.732 |

#### Final A

| Rank | Canoer | Country | Time |
| | Sebastian Brendel Jan Vandrey | Germany | 3:43.912 |
| | Erlon Silva Isaquias Queiroz | Brazil | 3:44.819 |
| | Dmytro Ianchuk Taras Mishchuk | Ukraine | 3:45.949 |
| 4 | Róbert Mike Henrik Vasbányai | Hungary | 3:46.198 |
| 5 | Ilya Shtokalov Ilya Pervukhin | Russia | 3:46.776 |
| 6 | Jorge Dayán Serguey Torres | Cuba | 3:48.133 |
| 7 | Filip Dvořák Jaroslav Radoň | Czech Republic | 3:49.352 |
| 8 | Gerasim Kochnev Serik Mirbekov | Uzbekistan | 3:52.920 |
# Cao Pengsheng

Cao Pengsheng (Chinese: 曹芃生; pinyin: Cáo Péngshēng; born July 1930) is a general in the People's Liberation Army of China who served as political commissar of the Lanzhou Military Region from 1990 to 1996.
He was a member of the Standing Committee of the 9th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He was a representative of the 13th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. He was a member of the 14th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

## Biography

Cao was born in Laoting County, Hebei, in July 1930.
He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in 1948, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the following year. During the Chinese Civil War, he served in the war and engaged in the Liaoshen campaign and Pingjin campaign.
In 1956, he enrolled at the PLA Second Political School, where he graduated in 1959. He was political commissar of the Shandong Military District in August 1985, and held that office until July 1988. He was also a member of the Standing Committee of the CCP Shandong Provincial Committee, the province's top authority.
In February 1988, he was appointed deputy political commissar of the Jinan Military Region, he remained in that position until April 1990, when he was transferred to the Lanzhou Military Region and was promoted to become political commissar.
He was promoted to the rank of major general (shaojiang) in September 1988, lieutenant general (zhongjiang) in July 1990, and general (shangjiang) in May 1994.
# Steagle

Steagle or Steagles may refer to:
* The Steagle, a 1971 American film
* Steagles, a former National Football League team
* Steagle Colbeagle the Eagle, a mascot of the Ontario Hockey League team the Saginaw Spirit; named for Stephen Colbert
# Carabao (disambiguation)

Carabao is a domesticated swamp type water buffalo found in the Philippines and Guam.
Carabao may also refer to:
* Carabao (band), a rock band from Thailand
* Carabao (mango), a variety of mango cultivated in the Philippines
* Carabao Energy Drink, a Thai energy drink, the manufacturers of which sponsor:
** Carabao Cup, the current name of the League Cup in English football
* Carabao Island, Cavite, a small island in Manila Bay in the Philippines
* Carabao Island, Romblon, sole island municipality of San Jose, Romblon, Philippines
* Carabao Linguistic Virtual Machine, a software suite from LinguaSys
* Military Order of the Carabao, a US military social club
# Julie de Carneilhan (film)

Julie de Carneilhan is a 1950 French drama film directed by Jacques Manuel and starring Edwige Feuillère, Pierre Brasseur and Jacques Dumesnil. It is an adaptation of the 1941 novel of the same title by Colette. The film's sets were designed by the art director René Moulaert.

## Synopsis

Julie de Carneilhan is divorced from her husband who he she still loves. He has married a second wife, a wealthy woman, and pursued a career in politics. He dreams up a scheme for him and Julie to extract money from his wife who holds the purse strings in the relationship.

## Cast

* Edwige Feuillère as Julie de Carneilhan
* Pierre Brasseur as Hubert Espivant
* Jacques Dumesnil as Léon de Carneilhan
* Marcelle Chantal as Marianne
* Michel Lemoine as Toni
* Sylvia Bataille as Lucie
* Gabrielle Fontan as La concierge
* Marion Delbo as La mère Encelade
* Andrée Tainsy as Madame Sabrier
* Jacques Dacqmine as Coco Votard
* Georges Pally as Beaupied
* Georges Paulais as L'homme d'affaires
* Léon Berton as Le palefrenier
# Juloos

Juloos is a novel by acclaimed Hindi writer Phanishwar Nath Renu. It was first published by Bharatiya Jnanpith in 1966. Juloos is a novel based on the change in the social paradigm of Goriyar village in Bihar when a group of Bengali Hindus arrive from East Pakistan to live in a colony. This novel is also written in the Anchalik style for which the author is famous.

## Characters

The main protagonist in the story are:
* Pavitra, a bramhin girl who lost her parents and fiancée in the riots and unofficially heads the colony
* Talewar Godhi, the richest man in the village who is from the godhi community and knows about tantra. He is also fond of women and has illicit relationship with them on the pretext of tantric practices.
* Jairam Singh is the disciple of Talewar Godhi.
Apart from these, there are other main characters who represent different facets of village life in post independence Bihar.

## Plot

After riots in East Pakistan the Bengali Hindus of the Jumapur village run away to arrive in the Goryiar village in the Indian state of Bihar. Like most of the villages, Goriyar has its own set of caste divisions and in the novel the most economically progressive caste in the village is that of the Godhis. Initially the colony formed by the migratory people is scorned upon by the villagers. It is only after news of the fair Bengali lady Pavitra with long flowing hairs reach the ears of Talewar Godhi, the unofficial head of the village and its richest man, that he starts taking interest in the colony. He sends his disciple Jairam Singh to sprinkle tantric sand near the feat of the lady, so that she would automatically be attracted to him. As the contacts between the people of the colony and the village increases many new relationship are formed and older ones broken. The novel which runs in 135 pages portrays with subtlety the colorful and dark facets of the village life with a presence of gamut of interesting characters.
# Carberry Island

Carberry Island (Irish: Oilean Chairbre) is a small uninhabited island in Lough Ree in County Westmeath, Ireland. Located near Athlone, the island was previously used by Athlone Yacht Club.
# SS Maude-Moore

SS Maude-Moore was a wood-burning screw steamer that provided a ferry service between the communities of Summerland, Naramata, and Penticton on Okanagan Lake in British Columbia, Canada.

## Construction

In 1899, William Jessup Snodgrass, pioneer and promoter of the community of Okanagan Falls, purchased Maude-Moore and had her hull shipped from Peterborough, Ontario to the Okanagan Landing shipyard at the north end of Okanagan Lake. She was named after Snodgrass' youngest daughter. Captain Joseph Weeks, who later became the last captain of the well-known SS Sicamous, helped build Maude-Moore's top structure and her engine and boiler were shipped to Okanagan Landing from and earlier boat, Jessie. Maude-Moore was 45 feet long, could carry 20 passengers, and had a scow for heavy freight. Her hull was strong, but her pilothouse and cabin were square and clumsy with sliding windows and her build was better suited for river service than for open water.

## Service

Snodgrass used Maude-Moore on Skaha Lake until 1905, when he sold her to the pioneer John Moore Robinson. From then on, she provided ferry service on Okanagan Lake as Robinson's private boat, along with his MV Rattlesnake, until Maude-Moore became an official ferry in 1908 after Robinson formed the Okanagan Lake Boat Company. MV Mallard, a competing ferry, was then taken to Skaha Lake. For the next five years, Maude-Moore ran twice daily and made chartered trips to Kelowna and Penticton. She endured many rough winter storms, but no serious trouble occurred. Aside from regular ferry service, she also took commercial travelers to Penticton and transported baseball and cricket teams and dance parties. Once, she transported two tons of dynamite from Okanagan Landing for road construction, and on another occasion, she carried out an armed patrol for two convicts who had escaped from the Canadian Pacific Railway company's SS Okanagan.

## Retirement

In 1911, the Okanagan Lake Boat Company was sold to Peter Roe, who replaced Maude-Moore and Rattlesnake with two gas boats. Maude-Moore was beached and burned at Naramata.
# SS Maverick

SS Maverick was an oil tanker built in 1890 for the Standard Oil of New York, later Mobil Oil. After the ship had changed hands sometime between 1910 and 1915, it was used during World War I as part of the Hindu–German Conspiracy to foment rebellion in India and overthrow the British Raj. According to one source, the ship sank in 1917.

## History

SS Maverick was laid down at the Columbian Iron Works in Baltimore, Maryland as a 1,721-long-ton (1,749 t) tanker for Standard Oil of New York, and delivered in May 1890. On 17 July 1899, Maverick caught fire while unloading a cargo of oil at Halifax. A subsequent explosion ripped a hole in the side of the steam tanker, which sank at its pier. By 1907 the ship had been repaired and was back in service, and by 1910 had been equipped with a 2½ kW radio with a range of 200 miles (320 km).
At some point between 1910 and 1915, the ship was sold to the Maverick Steamship Company. According to one period source, in April 1915 the ship had been chartered to one F. Jebsen, who was an officer in the Kaiserliche Marine. Jebsen was also the master of SS Mazatlan, a ship that had been suspected of secretly resupplying the German light cruiser SMS Leipzig in August 1914.
On 20 April 1915 rumors that Maverick was loading ammunition at Los Angeles reached a United States Customs Service agent, who ordered an inspection. By the time the order was issued, however, Maverick had weighed anchor and sailed to Long Beach and entered a drydock there. On 22 April 1915, she sailed under a Captain Starr-Hunt from San Pedro, California with a crew of 25 plus five so-called "Persians". However these were in fact Indians and included Hari Singh who carried with him quantities of Ghadar Party literature. The ship was to rendezvous with the schooner Annie Larsen at the island of Socorro, with the intention of transferring a quantity of arms to the Maverick. However, when the Annie Larsen failed to appear, the Maverick continued to Java via Honolulu. The Annie Larsen eventually appeared in Hoquiam, Washington, where United States authorities seized its cargo.
The Maverick continued to Jakarta, arriving there towards the end of August. She attracted attention, on account of the five Sikhs she had on board. The Maverick remained in Jakarta until the end of the war.
According to one source, the tanker sank in 1917.