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Ste. Claire Columbia MARCH • APRIL, 1999 VV.Iinno VI V II- ____________ COLUMBIA STE. CLAIRE MEMBERSHIP NOTICES • JUNE 19 - SECOND ANNUAL TRIP TO BOB-LO ISLAND The Great Lakes Maritime Institute & The Steamer Columbia Foundation presents: The Next Boat to Bob-Lo on Saturday, June 19, 1999. Tickets by reservation only and $75.00 per person includes round trip river voyage to Bob-Lo and steak luncheon in the pavillion on Bob-Lo. This special voyage of the Diamond Bell will depart from Diamond Jack's Landing at the foot of West Grand Blvd., Detroit, 4 blocks from Clark Street Exit off 1-75. Bob-Lo Island is in Canada and you must have two IDs - one must be passport or birth certificate. The ship leaves at 9:00a.m. and returns at 5:00 p.m. Deadline for reservations is June 12, 1999. To obtain a registration form, call (313) 852-4051. JUNE 26 - G.L.M.I. MARITIME ARTISTS SHOW A Special Show and Sale by two Great Lakes Maritime Artists in DeRoy Hall. Featured will be Mr. Dave Maize who will be exhibiting his photographs of Great Lakes vessels. In addition a working exhibit will be presented by Mr. Joe Barr, a member of the Ships in Bottle Association of America, an artist who specializes in steam and sail Great Lakes vessels in bottles. Fee $2.00 non-members, G.L.M.I. & Historical members free. JULY 8 -11 - HYDROPLANE RACING ON THE DETROIT RIVER Come and watch the hydroplanes skim over the water at more than 100 mph. Join the crowd on Belle Isle and see one of the greatest free shows on the water as the boats do time trials and race for the Gold Cup on Sunday. JULY 24 - 39TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DOSSIN GREAT LAKES MUSEUM Come and celebrate the opening of the Dossin Museum with FREE ADMISSION and other events. The museum will be open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. AUGUST 6-7 - WALLACEBURG ANTIQUE MOTOR AND BOAT OUTING (WAMBO) Canada's largest and foremost antique transportation display. Entertainment, parade of antique boats, "Supper on the Sydenham". For information contact WAMBO, (519) 627-1443 or (519) 627-8000. OUR COVER PICTURES .. .Boblo boats, the Columbia on the Detroit River, July 1979 and the Ste. Claire on the St. Clair River. Photos by Alan Mann and part of the Mann Historical Files. CONTENTS • Toooot, Toot, Toot ...in Five Minutes the Bob-Lo Boat Will D e p a r t ! ......................................................................39 Whittaker Propellers and the Sherman's Fletcher E n g in e .............................................................................................41 Great Lakes & Seaway N e w s.................................................................................................................................................... 47 Telescope© is produced with assistance from the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, an agency of the Historical Department of the City of Detroit. Visit our Website at: http://www.GLMI.org Published at Detroit, Michigan by the GREAT LAKES MARITIME INSTITUTE ©All rights reserved. Printed in the United States by Macomb Printing, Inc. MARCH • APRIL, 1999 Page 39 Toooot, Toot, Toot. in Five Minutes the Bob-Lo Boat Will Depart! by ALAN M ANN February, 1999 The foot of Woodward Avenue in Detroit explore the ship without bumping into hordes serves as a window to the numerous sights and of people lugging picnic hampers or impatient sounds of the Detroit River, one of the world's youngsters scurrying about the decks. busiest and most interesting waterways. At least The sounds? Now anyone who appreciates once a year (and sometimes more frequently), the a steam boat, knows there are many to seek prime location also held a special purpose for me out. The loud, throaty stack whistle sound was as embarkation point for the historic Bob-Lo my favorite. When a passing vessel approached island excursion steamers. Two vintage vessels in the busy Detroit River, I was sure to be on made up the fleet, the older "Columbia" (built in top deck. I would anticipate the whistle cord 1902) and her newer sister ship "Ste Claire" nine stretch which released a bellowing burst of years younger, but both equally appealing as steam, which in turn created the most beautiful authentic steam powered excursion boats. steam sound one would want to hear. A very Almost everyone aboard looked upon the special sound extravaganza was assured about steamers simply as a means of filling time for the mid way when the second Bob-Lo steamer 90 minute trip to Bob-Lo where they could spend appeared. The captains always exchanged a joyous day on the roller coaster, super slide, whistle salutes, signalled by either a one long ferris wheel or the many other means of making and two shorts or in some cases, "the big one" merry. I was more interested in enjoying the three longs and two shorts. Now that was fascinating sights and intriguing sounds of the something special! steamer. I had been a "boat nut" all my life and Down below, the heavy and powerful the Bob-Lo boats were about the last of a dying steam engine sounds could be taken in via a breed - special viewing s te a m e r s ! area. Here, the Many a time open vantage I stayed point gave a a b o a r d view of the rather than huge power disem bark plant enriched on the by the sopping island. Or if up of engine I wished to heat. In "experience" retrospect, both ships, I perhaps this would leave inhalation was the ship, not healthy but wait an hour or so and catch the "other" steamer it was a trance-making elixir. On one back to Detroit. The quick turnaround was much memorable occasion, a sympathetic crew more enjoyable because I could then easily member, sensing my engine reverie, invited me TELESCOPE Page 40 down below to have a rapturous close FDR A QUICK SIQHTSEEIM6 TOUR OF DETROIT up view of the gargantuan steam dynamo. Now talk about "engine 7th heaven" that was the day! The smells, the rhythmic reverberations of a steam orchestra, the warmth, well, that was just about the best day ever of my steamboat riding career. Live music for dancers was another wondrous sound aboard the steamers. The Joe Vitale Orchestra (a name I still hear on Detroit radio) provided the on deck music for many years until the cost saving measures (I suspect) saw the "canned" recorded variety take over in later years. Continually prowling all deck levels, i t was mandatory to "ear" the bridge steamers might not continue their runs much conversations before longer. The vintage vessels had regaled the < ° 'r reaching port. The Detroit River since 1902 when the Columbia ship to shore made her inaugural cruise. The annual, mandatory r a d i o Bob-Lo trip became more important than ever V < 5 $ Sul**' lest the rumor materialize. Sadly, the end came 9 at the conclusion of the 1990 season. Even though I made a run that season (thank goodness!), the "unexpected" expected brought a lump to my throat and an uneasiness in my stomach. The end had come. But I had accumulated many steamboat memories, had numerous Bob-Lo souvenirs to gaze at and was thankful I had taken part in a special era. could be NOTE: The Bob-Lo excursion overheard at times with boats languished in a chit chat exchanged with deteriorating state at passing vessels. On occasions of boldness, a Ecorse, Michigan conversation could also be opened up with a congenial deck watch officer who would usually offer some "inside" talk. Further examination of the vessel would include a visit to the gift shop where another Bob-Lo momento would be purchased, the configuration of a steamer mandatory. The beautiful woodwork, the stained glass windows, the brass and the many other trappings of a vintage ship would be ritually since 1990. However, announced plans are inspected. underway for possible restoration which will By the late 1980's, talk circulated amongst result in a return to Detroit River duty for the marine circles that Detroit’s historic Bob-Lo venerable Columbia and Ste. Claire steamers. MARCH • APRIL, 1999 Page 41 WHITTAKER PROPELLERS AND THE SHERMAN S FLETCHER ENGINE by GORDON P. BUGBEE Reprinted from Telescope NOVEMBER • DECEMBER. 197 McDonald McDonald Collection/Dossin Museum COMMODORE PERRY, presumably as rebuilt with conventional twin screw propulsion. "Preparedness" was in the air that summer Erie. Andrew Johnson was named for the nation's new before the Spanish-American War when the Ohio President. The other cutters were named for present or Naval Reserves steamed into Detroit aboard the old past Secretaries of the Treasury, or, with remarkable Andy Johnson about noon on July 30, 1897. The Ohio foresight, for a future Secretary of the Treasury in the sailors were showing off their newly-acquired case of Senator John Sherman of Ohio, brother of the training ship. Only a few weeks before, a patriotic General. The Civil War had been over for five months Clevelander had bought the ancient wooden when these new revenue cutters began arriving from sidewheeler for them at Government auction. That the Shipyards: John Sherman and William P. Fessenden summer the Michigan sailors were also pulling from Cleveland, Andrew Johnson from Buffalo and John strings that would bring them the yet-more-ancient A. Dix from down the Niagra River at Tonawanda. With gunboat U.S.S. Yantic from the coast as a training peace at hand, the Chase seems to have stayed on salt ship before winter set in. water. The Johnson was the last more-or-less active Now, more than thirty years later, the old Andy survivor of a class of four sidewheel sister revenue Johnson was on her way to a reunion with the spirits of cutters which the Treasury Department had ordered her sidewheel Lake sisters at Detroit.
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