TELESCOPE April, 1964
Volume 13, Number 4
Great Lakes Maritime Institute Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Belle Isle, Detroit 7, Michigan April TELESCOPE 74
Coming Meetings Cover: Painting by Howard Sprague showing the early lake-built ocean BUSINESS MEETING steamer Mackinaw (see page 76). Friday, June 26, 1964 * * * Dossin Museum, 8 p.m.
Our annual election of new offi Our publishing deadlines for Tel cers will follow the disclosure of escope have fallen so amiss that we the results of the recent election owe our readers an explanation. of members to the Board of Direc Your editor’s attention has been tors. Visitors are welcome to these required on other matters until now. meetings of the Board of Directors. Most recently, he has been studying for part of his registration examin A nnual b o b -l o c ruise ations for architects in the State Date to be announced (in July) of Michigan. A move to new quarters Sailing 6 p.m., Foot of Woodw'ard has also put his operations out of As has been customary in the past, joint (for convenience of his regu we will join either of the good lar correspondents, his address is ships Columbia and Ste. Claire for now 442 Stuart Avenue, Kalamazoo, an evening cruise to Bob-Lo Island Michigan 49007; usual Telescope bus and back. Come and join us. iness should continue to go to the Dossin Museum as in the past). We earnestly hope that the coming sum In This Issue mer may provide an opportunity to get caught up again...before your Institute Page ...... 74 editor takes a proposed month’s trip The Lakers of World War I and to Greece and Egypt in October. So their Predecessors, Part One, we hope that you will bear with us. by Rev. E. J. Dowling, S. J. 75 Our annual Seaway issue may appear Argo\ Steam Navigation Comes as two months’ combined issues. to the St. Clair River ...... 77 This will not only be for the ob Book Review ...... 79 vious reason of catching up. It Curator’s Corner, will also be for the reason that the by Robert E. Lee ...... 80 Seaway issue is growing in size (it Great Lakes and Seaway News ..... 81 has always been larger than a regu lar issue), and promises to grow even larger in future years. Fur thermore, it consumes several times the editing attention of a single issue, to say nothing of the work of its compilers, Don Baut and George Ayoub.
This issue contains two issues’ backlog of news, which we print now, rather than stand on ceremony and put it in its proper monthly slot in future issues. Should we be suc cessful in maintaining shorter in tervals for our editorial deadlines Institute of coming issues, some issues will appear without news portions until we are back on our intended sched Page ule. GORDON BUGBEE TELESCOPE April 75
WM
The “Lakers”
OF WORLD WAR I AND THEIR PREDECESSORS Part One:
Early Lake-built Ocean Vessels
rPhe Welland Canal, connecting Lake Erie with Lake Ontario, was improved in 1884 with enlarged locks which were 270 feet long by 45 feet wide and 14 feet deep. This particular improvement is usually referred to as the Third Welland C a n al.” Some seventeen years later, in 1901, the canals of the St. Lawrence River, connecting Lake Ontario with tidewater, were improved and enlarged to the same dimensions.
Therefore, as of 1901, a vessel whose maximum length and width dimensions were 260 feet and 43’-6” and whose load draft did not exceed 14 feet could sail directly from the Great Lakes to the Ocean without transshipment of cargo. Lightering of cargo was required for vessels drawing more than 14 feet. V e s sels built to full canal dimensions (260’ x 43’) could carry from 3,000 to 4,000 tons on deep water draft and from 1,500 to 2,000 tons on canal draft. As far back as 1890, two steel ships were built in Great Lakes yards for ocean service. As they were too long for the existing St. Lawrence River canals (then about 200 feet in length), they had to be bulkheaded (in simple language, cut in two and boarded up at the cut sections) and towed through the
By the Rev.
E dwa r d J .
Dow ling, S .J April TELESCOPE 76
LAKERS OF WORLD WAR I AND THEIR PREDECESSORS
PORTO RICO, photo from Dowling collection canal in two pieces. They were then reassembled when they reached Montreal. These and two smaller vessels of the later 1890s are described below: s.s. Keweenaw (US 161010), 1891 Bay s.s. Mae (US 92953), 1899 Toledo by City, Michigan, by F. W. Wheeler & John Craig (hull #75) for Miller, Co. (hull #73), for Saginaw S. S. Bull 8i Knowlton, New York. 252 x Co., New York. 270 x 41 x 26. 42 x 24. Later sold French and Foundered off the Pacific Coast in renamed Neree. In Lloyds’, 1927. 1894. s. s. Porto Rico (US 150836), 1899 s.s. Mackinaw (US 92226), 1891 Bay Toledo by Craig (#76) for New York City by Wheeler (#70) for same & Porto Rico S. S. Co., New York. owners. Sister ship in all de 220 x 32 x 19. Later sold foreign tails of Keweenaw, Sold Japanese and successively carried the names in 1916 and renamed Sawa Maru (J. Miaranquan, Aristides, Danai, 19192). No record in Lloyds’ af Angeliki Venetzianou and Thira. ter 1929. (See i1lus t rat ion) Drops out of Lloyds’ in 1939; pro bably was broken up. (See illus tration. )
In 1901 and 1902, five more ocean vessels were ready to go t o sea from Great Lakes shipyards Th ree of these were of canal size and sailed out directly, Th e other two, of an extremely large experimental type, were b u1k h e a d e d and towed through the <■' a n a 1 s . These ships are described be low: TELESCOPE April 77
ARGO: STEAM NAVIGATION COMES TO THE ST. CLAIR
s.s. Backman (US 3904), 1901 Toledo on North Pacific. Sold to Japan by Craig (#85) for United Fruit ese for scrapping in 1934, and S. S. Co., New York. 253 x 38 x scrapped in Japan in 1935. 23. Later sold to Pacific S. S. s.s. Minnetonka (US 93224), 1902 Co., Seattle (Admiral Line), and Cleveland by American Shipbuilding rebuilt with passenger accomoda Co. (#407) for Atlantic Navigation tions and renamed Admiral Evans. Co., New York. 430 x 43 x 33. Abandoned in 1937. Had two stacks. Converted into a s.s. Hugoma (US 96585), 1901 Wyan tanker in 1904 and renamed Santa dotte by Detroit Shipbuilding Co. Maria. Lost by enemy action on for Hugoma S. S. Co., Detroit the Atlantic, 2/25/1918. (Morley Brothers and others). 249 s.s. Minnewaska (US 93255), 1902 x 40.2 x 27. Sunk in collision Cleveland by American Shipbuilding with French cruiser Klever near Co. (#408) for same owners. Sis New Orleans, 2-20-1907. ter vessel of Minnetonka. Later s. s. Watson (US 81788), 1901 Toledo tanker Santa Rita. Sailed from by Craig (#86) for United Fruit. New Orleans, bound for Spezia, Sistership of Backman. Later pas Italy, 10/10/1921, and was never senger and freight Admiral Watson heard from again.
The author wishes to express his t hanks to Messrs. W i11iam duBarry Thomas of Woodstock, N iw York; Norman L . McKellar of Tamworth, N . S . W ., Australia; C. Spanton Ashdowne of New York City and R ichard J . Wright of Akron, Ohio, for ass i st ance in the preparation of this list.
(Part One will be completed ir the next issue of Telescope.) ARGO: Steam Navigation Comes to the
A colorful career from the start belonged to the first steamer to ply St. Clair River the St. Clair River in local service regularly from Detroit. Her story was told some years after her depar If we mistake not, it was in the ture from the scene, by a writer for fall of 1827 that the first steam the Detroit Daily Advertiser issue boat built in Michigan was comple of April 17, 1852. Fortunately, the ted. She was built at Detroit by talents of the writer included a Captain Burtis, and was called the sufficiently keen sense of humor to Argo. The following were her dimen appreciate the full impact of the sions: exper ience. For the coming of regu Length 55 feet lar (?) steam navigation to the St. Breadth of beam 5 feet Clair River, as well as the building Depth of hold 2 feet of M ichigan’s first steamboat, was hard to cloak with august dignity, The hull was constructed by fash as we shall see in his account: ioning two logs for the sides, with April TELESCOPE 7 8 ______
ARGO: STEAM NAVIGATION COMES TO THE ST. CLAIR
a centerpiece or kelson between the B . ’s steamer, the affair determined two. Her cabin consisted of a light him not to run the hazard again with deck supported on upright stanchions so crank a craft. He therefore re and was enclosed on the sides with turned to Detroit, and the following canvas. Thus equipped, with an en winter increased her width about gine of four horse power and boiler four feet, built a more commodious in proportion (for steam, in those and substantial cabin and of course days, was considered rather an insub made her everything that a steamboat ordinate subject), it was thought should be. For the three years fol expedient to make a trial trip on lowing, up to 1830, the Argo had the the Detroit River before venturing uninterrupted possession of the “ to sea” on a body of water so ex route, always making her trips up tensive and boisterous as Lake St. in two days if the weather was fav Clair. orable.
It may be seen by reference to the But about this year the steamboat columns of the Detroit Gazette of Gen. Gratiot made her appearance on about the 20th of October of that the route, and possessing such great year with what satisfaction this speed as to make the trip in about trip was performed, in the presence sixteen hours, of course, proved a of Governor Cass and several other formidable competitor to Captain B. distinguished guests. This proving with the Argo. The Argo was, in the to the satisfaction of Capt. Burtis spring of 1832, purchased by Mr. L. that he might safely venture with Davenport and put on as a ferry, the Argo upon her destined route, thus giving Detroit her first steam sea stores were laid in accordingly, ferry boat. Here she puffed and and steam got up at 8 o ’clock on the wallowed with thousands across the morning of her departure. After strait, until she enriched her owner considerable swaying at the hawsers, and he brought out the United. the word was given, “All Aboard.” Being thus cast into theshade by The Captain ordered the lines cast her proud rival, her pitiable situa off, and away she flew at the rate tion excited much sympathy, and she of about two miles an hour. was purchased, as all old steamboats Hers was a high pressure engine, are, and taken to their common se and the noise made in exhausting pulchre, Monroe, where of course she was entombed in the River Raisin. steam resembled much the barking of We suppose our Pearl and Ruby would a lap dog, while the smoke which hardly feel proud to acknowledge issued from her chimney would scar such an ancestor, yet certain it is cely have shamed an old Frenchman’s that she made the first track pipe. through the waters over which they The following night, at about 11 now so gracefully glide. (A view of o ’clock, brought her alongside of Pearl is in our March Telescope, p. ‘Uncle Billey Brown’s wharf” on the 63. Half a century later, Tashmoo River St. Clair. Here the way pas would certainly have disavowed the sengers put up for the balance of whole lot. — Editor) the night, and the following day, The engine of the Argo, seeming towards sunset, the Argo glided intent on working out its destiny as alongside of the beach at Fort Gra the pioneer, is now employed in the tiot, without accident, save having grindstone quarries of the Point aux once nearly capsized by running onto a fish-line stake. Barques on Lake Huron. Its dimen sions are 5V£ inches bore, and stroke These being at that day too common 19 inches. It is our desire to see in the river for the safety of Capt. it on exhibition next fall at the TELESCOFE April 79
BOOK REVIEW
State Fair, by the side of those of Friend Palmer as remembering that modern times. once Argo carried Thomas Palmer, a man of “generous proport ions,” to Shipwrights and engineers of this his property at St. Clair. Palmer’s day may turn up their noses at the promenading on deck so disturbed the Argo and her equipage, but the time trim of poor Argo that the master was when even in Detroit she was had to call out, “ Trim ship, Uncle considered CONSIDERABLE pumpkins! Tom.’’
* * * Argo must certainly have been an Confirming these impressions of improvement in the cross-river ferry the first Michigan-built steamboat service, having replaced what was is an account in William Lee Jenks’ literally a horse-powered ferry, and St. Clair County, Michigan, Its His that having been preceded by sail tory and People (page 398). Jenks ferries. Later, in the fifties, a gives her dimensions as 42’ x 9 ’, new ferry adopted the name of Argo. with the same two-log hull construc Your editor recalls having seen, in tion, having a platform spanning be the Detroit Institute of Arts, a tween them. Jenks says Argo would glazed pitcher embellished with a replent ish her depleted wood stores skyline view of Detroit in the early at Stromness Island in the North 1830s, and in the foreground is a Channel at the Flats, that being the vessel which seems to answer to the usual navigation channel for some strange description of that first years afterward. Be cites General Argo. GPB
prints of them). Review We hope there may be room for a collection of photographic views published for their own sake, as is The Ship’s Scene...Thru Massman’s the case of the Massman publication. Lens, by Emory A. Massman, Jr. De Telescope readers are already famil troit 48219 (Massman Photo Company, iar with Emory’s work in his Picture 17301 Annchester Road), 1964. 28 Pages. But Telescope pages cannot pages, 8lA’ x 11” . $1.00 (please add be compared with the printing result ten cents for mailing). of this pamphlet. Two dozen views A great number of our lake ship are printed, one-to-a-page, on 8/4” x enthusiasts are primarily collectors 11” pages, with a good quality of of photographs. Some photos come paper. from their own cameras, or are ac Beyond these necessary technical quired by purchase or trade from requirements comes the judgment of other collectors. Some views are the photographer. Aided by his postcards or photographs specific small boat, Emory is frequently able ally prepared for marketing. to get close views of moving ships, This latter category has been lean with impressive results. Moreover, in recent years. There are the the photographs are imaginatively photo sets or banks made available selected, both as to vessel types by such groups as Marine Historical and as to viewpoints and activities Society of Detroit or Steamship His shown. L. D. Browning is shown in torical Society of America. There retirement between two massive Buf is Thomas Manse’s condensed ship falo grain elevators. Whaleback directory, Know Your Ships, which tanker Meteor discharges oil at a carries a selection of his photo Rouge River dock while former sand graphs (and doubles as a catalog of sucker Algonac lies beyond. The April TELESCOPE 80
C U R A T O R ’S CORNER
(then) steam tug R. H. Goode crosses ship photographs...that they all the finish line of a past tug race, look alike. ” spouting black smoke. Newer ships like Whitefish Bay offer contrast to We congratulate Emory on the ini older ones like the former package tiative he has taken to create this freighter L. A. McCorquodale, seIf- unique offering. We wish to echo unloader Baygeorge and auto carrier the response of several of our Mataafa. This variety helps to friends who have hoped that this may overcome the usual objection to lake become an “ annual” feature. GPB
Curator's Corner
It seems that pictures have held a dry dock, and a trip through the St. major part of our attention in the Lawrence Seaway. There are pictures past weeks, but when they’re all taken all the way from Quebec to good pictures, why shouldn’t they? Duluth. First came the Detroit Photographic Many of them are already historic: Guild’s special showing of prints, The old D & C liners at the Detroit which enjoyed a most noteworthy res waterfront in a bygone era; the fam ponse during the two-month exhibi ous Alabama (see news column); the tion. giant Seeandbee, the J. T. Wing un During the period of that show, we der sail; and ALL in full color! became involved in The Ship’s Scene, Mr. Wolf has captured every mood Emory Massman’s fine new book (see of the Great Lakes in a most out review elsewhere) of very good pho standing manner through the magic of tographs. Before the excitement of color film. It is his tribute, as this had died down, we were deep an artist, to the beauty of the into planning for the Museum’s new Water Wonderland. est show, “Reflections...The Splen dor of the Lakes. ” Again, it is Our attention is shared with ano photographs, but different. ther matter, and we are sure that those who have waited patiently with us to see our pilot house display How many times w e ’ve said, upon take shape will be happy to know the viewing a picture, “ I ’ll bet it is project is off the ground. Pat Lab beautiful in color!” This show re adie has drawn up the blueprints; we moves all need for that comment, for now have all (well, nearly all) the it consists of 101 selected views of items needed; and the lumber is or the Great Lakes in beautiful natural dered. Very soon, we’ll begin to color. buiId.
These photographs are by Harry W e ’re still looking for a few Wolf, veteran ship’s photographer on things. Perhaps you can help us. the cruise ship South American, and We need a brass cuspidor, a whistle they are being presented to the pub pull, and the brass railing around lic at the Museum through August 2. the wheelsman’s platform.
Grouped into interesting areas of Nevertheless, we’ll have a pilot activity, these large color prints house before the summer ends, and an depict such subjects as locking down interesting “exhibit in progress” through the Soo Canal, the Saga of while it is being built. Come in the ill-fated Montrose, a ship in and see us. TELESCOPE April 81
Great Lakes Marine News
Robert Radunz, Editor, 3060 Coventry, Drayton Plains, Michigan Ed Andrews, Assistant Editor William A. Hoey, News photograph coordinator, 1421 Langley Rd., Clawson, Michigan Correspondents: George Ayoub, Ottawa, Leonard Barr, Algonac, Fred W. Dutton, Cleveland, Edwin Sprengeler, Milwaukee, Otto Strek, Detroit, Dan M. Weber, Toledo, Peter B. Worden, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan', and Richard J. Wright, Akron
^OOnSLOHSON
Above: Peter Worden’s photograph week. Robert S. McNamara is sched shows the Algoma Central fleet s new uled to sail today from Detroit. flagship, Sir Denys Lowson. The second vessel, Peter Reiss, has been undergoing repairs at Toledo, and will sail tomorrow for Detroit.
March 1...After a month of inac- March 2...The 2,836-ton Canadian tivity, two ships will resume haul- freighter Gulfport has been sold y ing coal to Detroit from Toledo this Clarke Steamship Co. of Montreal to April TELESCOPE 82
GREAT LAKES AND SEAWAY NEWS
Above: A photograph from Fraser- 313’ x 60’ x 34’. It was designed Nelson shipyard in Superior, Wiscon by the Department of Transport and sin, shows the Boland Si Cornelius the National Research Council in se1f-unloader Diamond Alkali in the Ottawa. Canadian Overseas Telecom process of receiving her new diesel munications Corp. will operate her power plant. for service in the Gulf of St. Law rence and the North Atlantic.
a Greek shipping firm. She will be ...Strong westerly winds in Toledo renamed Stepheni and sail under the reduced the Maumee River to its low Liberian flag. est level in 22 years. So much wat er was blown out of the river that March 3...Public port advocates in Michigan got a boost when the Mich at its lowest point the level was igan House approved a bi11 to let a seven feet below normal. Several fifty-one per cent of voters okay lake freighters were grounded at the bond issues for port construction. C8c0 docks. At present a sixty per cent “yes” ...The Area Redevelopment Adminis vote is required. The bill now goes tration has approved $102,000 for a to the Senate. technical assistance project to aid March 4...A combination cable re the Lake Superior commercial fishing pair ship and icebreaker will be industry. launched by Canadian Vickers,Ltd., March 5...The ice won’t hamper an Montreal, early this spring. Still early start to navigation on the unnamed, the new vessel will measure Great Lakes, the Weather Bureau an TELESCOPE April 83
GREAT LAKES AND SEAWAY NEWS
nounced. Likely opening dates are: March 10...Milwaukee Clipper will Detroit, March 23; Cleveland, March begin her annual sailing season be 22; Buffalo, April 3; Soo Locks, tween Milwaukee and Muskegon on June April 9 ; St. Lawrence Seaway, April 19, and will end her season Sept. 8. 7; Duluth, April 11. March 11...Reports have been made March 6...The Great Lakes fleets that the steam tug Jesse James will have set a target date of April 15 be laid up indefinitely; and if she for the start of general shipping, does return to service, it will be about two weeks earlier than last with a diesel engine. The Coast year. Guard has notified her owners that certain boiler repairs will be re ...The Detroit District of the quired before the tug can operate Army Corps of Engineers refused to again. For years the tug has been a give Medusa Portland Cement Co. per familiar sight with her big self mission to construct a conveyor unloading barges Constitution or bridge and dock in Lake Michigan off Maida in tow, bringing coal from South Pointe, near Charlevoix. The Toledo to Detroit. Cleveland, Ohio, cement firm had applied for a permit to build a ...The Bradley fleet has placed a 1,350-foot conveyor bridge into the call for its crews to report to work lake, with a 680-foot pier at the next Monday. end of it. March 12...Coast Guard cutter Mac March S...Saguenay Shipping Ltd. kinaw began breaking ice in Little of Montreal will offer four vessel Bay de Noc at the north end of Lake sailings a month from Great Lakes Michigan to open the way for the ports to the Caribbean and Venezuela first ore carriers. during the 1964 navigation season. ...One of the world’s great sail ...A strike has been ordered for ing vessels, the Chr ist ian Radich, tomorrow by Marine Engineers Benefi will visit Milwaukee August 12-14, cial Association against nearly all the Norwegian ambassador announced. ore, grain and coal ships in Amer ican ports up and down the Great ...Toledo’s lake season opened Lakes. In dispute is a union demand with arrival of John W. Boardman of for $300-a-month minimum pensions the Huron Cement fleet, bound from after twenty years’ service in the Alpena with a load of cement. Union-contract vessels. March 16...S. T. Crapo of the Hur March 9...A last-minute agreement on Portland Cement Co. left Cleve between the M.E.B.A. and shipowners land for Alpena after completing the to renew negotiations has delayed a installation of a bow thruster. strike against nearly all U. S. ...Pringle Barge Line has contrac Great Lakes vessels. ted to charter the tug John Roen V ...The stripped hull of the former to take the place of Jesse James. passenger steamer Alabama appears at ...Fearing a toll increase on the last to be on the threshold of an St. Lawrence Seaway, the Great Lakes other career after years of false Conference of senators in Washington starts. She now lies idle at Hol D. C. has asked Commerce Secretary land, Michigan. Reportedly, she is Luther Hodges to put the United now sold to a construction company States on record as opposing any from Bay City. Her hull will be cut such action. down a few feet further to make a barge out of her, and she may have ...John W . Boardman opened the one or two cranes placed on her. Cleveland shipping season with a April TELESCOPE 84
GREAT LAKES AND SEAWAY NEWS
Detroit News Marine Editor Stoddard day they had left the Soo, where White relayed this photograph to the they had given ferry service until Dossin Museum from Woodie Jarvis of October 30, 1962, when the new Sault DeTour, Michigan, It shows the two Internat ional Bridge had taker, their automobile ferries James W. Curran place. They were intended for ser and John A. McPhail in tow of the vice between Kingston and Wolfe Is tug G. W. Rogers, as seen in the St. land at the mouth of Lake Ontario. Marys River from the DeTour-Drummond The three were off the mouth of Sag Island ferry on May 8. Earlier that inaw Bay in the early hours of May 9
load of cement. Un ion of Canada. He said that the trustees had appointed Charles Tur March 17...The Cape Breton Miner, ner , a member of the Brotherhood of being built by Port Weller Dry Docks Railway Clerks, as acting president. for Upper Lakes Shipping Ltd. of Toronto, is scheduled for launching ...The Canadian craneship Yank about April 25. The 680-foot, 22 canuck is scheduled to sail today thousand ton vessel is the largest from the lower Sault Ste. Marie (On ocean-going se1f-unloading freighter tario) harbor for Windsor, Ont. She ever built on the Great Lakes. will set a new record for opening of navigation on the St. Marys River. March 18...The Canadian Coast Guard tender Simcoe began prepara March 20...With Yankcanuck sai1ing tions for opening of the St. Law south from the Soo, other steamship rence Seaway, due on April 10. The companies are pressing Federal offi Grenville will leave Prescott short cials for an early opening of the ly to service the eastern section Soo Locks and the Lake Superior between Iroquois and Cornwall. This sailing season. The first lock is may be her last tour of duty, as she scheduled to open on April 1. A will be ret i red in Apri1. Canadian firm announced it would have the freighters Newbrunswicker ...Canadian Labor Minister A. J. MacEachen told Parliament that the and HamiIt onian waiting at the lock Government’s marine union trustees gates when they open. had removed Hal C. Banks as presi March 21...A 25-year-old farm im dent of the Seafarers International plement salesman bought a ticket at TELESCOPE April 85
GREAT LAKES AND SEAWAY NEWS
March 26...Canal tolls scheduled to be reimposed on the Welland Canal on opening of navigation have again been suspended indefinitely.
March 27...The (Seaway) freighter Mormacpine (a Brown Victory), owned by Moore-McCormick Lines, Inc., of New York, was headed for Bermuda under escort of the U. S. cutter Half Moon, following a fire which broke out in one of her holds.
...The 68-year-old whaleback John Ericsson is expected to sail from Toronto next week for Chicago in a renewed attempt to break a boycott by U. S. longshoremen against Cana dian ships not manned by members of the S. I. U. of Canada.
when they encountered the storn that March 29...Nicholson Terminal and also brought a tornado to Lake St. Dock Company of Detroit will double Clair’s Anchor Bay. The Curran sanl its capacity for handling overseas at about that time, apparently, and general cargo this season. By 1969 the McPhail was cut loose to drift it will have eight vessel berths until she sank later in the day. available to overseas ships. The Mr. Jarvis tells us that both were entire program will be a three-stage built at Col 1ingwood, the Curran in $4 million development. 1947, and the McPhail in 1955; each March 30...Work on the replacement carried eighteen cars. for the Poe Lock at the Soo will resume on July 1. Ludington for passage to Manitowoc on the ferry City of Saginaw and had ...Huron Portland Cement Co. is his car placed aboard. But at the examining bids from several ship end of the four-hour trip, he had building firms for converting the di sappeared. tanker B. R. Schemm into a self unloading cement carrier. Announce March 23...S. T. Crapo, assisted ment of the contract awards is ex by the icebreaker Mackinaw, has made pected in a few weeks. the passage through the Mackinac St rai ts. April I...Eight Canadian ships locked through the Soo into Lake March 25...Michigan ’ s limestone Superior for the earliest opening on shipping season opened when Myron C. record with the exception of two war Taylor sailed from Rogers City for years. T, R . McLagan of Canada Port Huron. The entire Bradley Steamship Lines passed through the fleet will be operating within the MacArthur Lock at 8:26 a.m. next two days. ...Senator Philip A. Hart of Mich ...The salesman who vanished from igan has sought operating and con City of Saginaw was located. He struction subsidies for U. S. flag said he blacked out and then found ships operating on the Great Lakes. himself in Los Angeles. He has presented a bi11 in Congress ...United States Steel’s Pitts that will update the Merchant Marine burgh Fleet will man 41 boats this Act and recognize the “ Fourth Coast- season. 1ine.” April TELESCOPE 86
GREAT LAKES AND SEAWAY NEWS
...A newly-formed shipping line, to land development. He will be in the Great Lakes Transcaribbean Line, charge of a planned marine terminal will service Great Lakes ports with to be built on 1,625 acres of land sailings to South American and West owned by Morton at Ojibway, Ontario, Indies ports. on the Detroit River. The terminal, although in Canada, will primarily ...Lake Michigan’s only iron ore handle ocean cargoes to be trucked port, Escanaba, Michigan, will ob to and from American cities. serve its centennial. First cargoes from this port helped make guns and Apr il 4 ...It was announced in Mon cannon balls for the Union Army. treal that the Board of Maritime Trustees and the Seafarers’ Interna ...The Welland Canal is open, but tional Union have reached an agree ice in Lake Erie has kept ships bot ment on a formula to prevent viol tled up in the entrance at Port Col ence on the Great Lakes. Immediate borne, at the Lake Erie end. Locked steps will be taken to restore the in the ice were Georgian Bay and S.I.U. of Canada to constitutional Imperial Welland. Also waiting were control of its members. Chicago Tribune, Ridgetown, Donna cona, Imperial London and George M. ...U. S. Coast Guard reported that Car 1. all thirteen Great Lakes freighters halted by ice above and below the ...E. B. Barber of Algoma Central just-opened Soo Locks have been & Hudson Bay Railway fleet will be freed. Thunder Bay, a Canadian converted to a seIf-unloader this freighter, reported an 18-inch crack season. She has heretofore been the in its hull that was probably caused Algoma fleet flagship, but the new by the ice. Sir Denys Lowson will take on this honor this season. April 6...Black Bay, owned by CSL, has left Port Arthur with 850,000 ...Lt. Col. Edward C. Bruce will bushels of wheat, giving that port become district engineer in charge its third-earliest opening in his of the U. S. Lake Survey in Detroit. tory.
...A veteran Detroit area ship ...Pittsburgh Fleet’s Irving S. builder, Theodore J. Brush, has been Olds left Duluth with 15,800 tons of named hull superintendent of the iron ore, bound for Gary, Indiana. Fraser-Ne1 son Shipbuilding and Dry It thus became the first ore boat to Dock Co. in Superior, Wis. He spent ply the lakes for the 1964 season. more than thirty years with the now- ...Ice up to 22 inches thick has defunct Great Lakes Engineering trapped four Canadian freighters in Works. the lower St. Marys River. Three ...John L. A. Galster, cement car had broken propeller blades. These rier for Penn-Dixie Co., fought her are C. A. Bennett, Algocen and Don way through ice in Little Traverse nacona. The Coast Guard says ice in Bay to pick up her first load of the river is heavier than it had cement for the 1964 season. been all winter.
April 2...First Canadian ship into ...Portadoc arrived in Calumet the Port of Milwaukee was Yankcan Harbor from Fort William to open the uck . season there. ...Carlis J. Stettin has resigned April 8 ...The westbound freighter his position as port director for Totem Star entered St. Lambert Lock, the Detroit-Wayne County Port Com making the earliest opening of the mission. He will join Morton Salt St. Lawrence Seaway in history. Company as a vice-president assigned Four other vessels followed her. At TELESCOPE April 87
GREAT LAKES AND SEAWAY NEWS
Frank Kelly hes asked the Coast Guard to postpone its May 24 dead line for ending operation of Chief Wawatam in rail ferry service at the Straits of Mackinac.
...A $300 a month Great Lakes pen sion agreement announced by Marine Engineers Beneficial Association ended a threat to delay movements of iron ore carriers.
A p r i l 10....\ $1 million expansien of terminal facilities on the Sagi naw River at Bay City, Michigan, was announced by Dow Chemical Company of John Lochhead, of the Mariners Mus Midland, Michigan, and Oglebay Nor eum in Newport News, Va,, writes the ton Company of Cleveland. following accompanying his photo graph above: "Enclosed is a picture ...Six ships are trapped in Lake of the Great Lakes self - unloader Eiie ice at the Port Colborne en W. F. White which for the past cou trance to the Wellfnc' Canal. These ple of years has been hauling coal are Sprucedale, Elmdale, Grovedale, from Norfolk or Newport News to a Bur 1ington, Midland Prince and Jos steel plant on the Delaware. We eph Medill Patterson. believe that this shows her about to ...The Coast Guard cutter Mesquite leave on her last trip as a C&O of was aground and taking water eight ficial told me he heard that from miles south of Escanaba. A commer now on the plant will be supplied by cial tug sent to assist her, the rail. Note the big pile of coal on John Purvis, also became stuck. deck. We will be sorry to see her go as she was an oddity on the wat A p r i l H...Torr Head of Belfast, erfront in comparison with the big owned by the Head Line, became the modern overseas bulk carriers that first overseas vessel to arrive at load coal here. the Port of Detroit, a distinction which that fleet’s ships have held for the past two seasons as well. the western end of the Seaway, 23 ships started moving into Iroquois ...The tug John Purvis was freed Lock. from her grounded position in Lake Michigan, and then she and the cut ...In Toledo the Cherry Street ter Sundew pulled off the grounded Bridge became stuck as R. Bruce Mesquite. Angus was headed out. The grain freighter had to anchor for about an April 12...The Old Marine Hospital hour. at Detroit, built in 1854 and used as a hospital until 1930, will be ...The U. S. Government has pro demoli shed. posed a $50 increase in pilotage fees for the Cornwa11-Kingston sec April 13...The 7,600-ton Israeli tion of the Seaway. The Shipping cargo liner Hadar, designed exclu Federation of Canada strongly oppos sively for Seaway use, arrived at es the proposed increase. Montreal on her maiden voyage. Also making her first visit to Montreal April 9...The Detroit Kiver mail was Cunard’s cargo liner Phrygia, boat service will resume today. transferred from their Mediterranean ...Michigan’s Attorney - General service to Seaway and lake trade April TELESCOPE 88______
GREAT LAKES AND SEAWAY NEWS
PHOTOGRAPHS ON OPPOSITE PAGE ferry Trillium, retired since the early fifties, may be returned to Yankcanuck is shown on her notable its former service in Toronto harbor trip down the St. Marys River from as flagship of the ferry fleet. the Canadian Soo in this photograph April 27...Upper Lakes Shipping by Peter Iforc/en. The trip, made on has taken the whaleback John Eric March 19, was the earliest such ven sson out of commission. ture on record. Below, another Wor den phot ograph shows the Kinsman ...The whistle from the steam tug fleet’s newly-acquired R. E. Webster Jesse James has been placed on the which was formerly the Pittsburgh Detroit fireboat John Kendall. fleet’s Elbert H. Gary. Apr il 27...The seIf-unloader J. L. Reiss fouled a harbor buoy in Lud with her sister, Lycia. ington while she was backing out from her berth. A sudden gust of April 14...First overseas ship in wind blew the ship against the buoy, Toledo is Wolfgang Russ, a German and the propeller tangled itself on freighter. The Russ had also opened the buoy cable. A diver was called the overseas shipping season in from Manistee to untangle it. Cleveland. April 28...The steamer Poweraux ...Columbia Transportation’s bulk Peter, better known as Ralph S. freighter David Z. Norton is repor- Caulkins, will be scrapped overseas. ted!> being sold for scrapping. Three other ships going the same ...Coal freighter Alexander Leslie route are owned by the same company, (b H. A. Rock a J. T. Hutchinson) Auxiliary Power Corp. These are the has been sold by Lake Erie Naviga Grand Island, Joliet and Marquette, tion Company of Walkerville to Nor former Cleveland-Cliffs freighters. lake Steamship Co. Ltd. of Toronto, April 29...The old Browning Line a newly-formed company. freighter Norman If. Foy is on her ...Heavy winds blew George A. way to the Italian scrap yards. Sloan aground in the St. Marys Riv er. At Ludington, the C&O car fer ...Mar ine writers of the Great ries were prevented from leaving the Lakes newspapers have elected Mer harbor. rill E. Kingsbury of Cleveland, vice - president of Wilson Marine April 17...First overseas ship at Transit Company, as “ Great Lakes Man Milwaukee was the new Israeli liner of the Year.” Hadar. ...Columbia fleet announced sale April 18...German freighter Trans of the self-unloading steamer Sierra europa rammed a pier in Milwaukee, for scrapping. leaving a hole 50 feet long and 30 feet wide in the pier. Transeuropa ...The Irish freighter Irish Pine suffered damage to her bow. collided with the tug Tennessee which was helping her to leave Tol April 20...Low water caused the edo. The collision occurred when coal carrier Robert J. Paisley to the Cherry Street Bridge failed to bypass the port of South Haven, open to let the vessel through. The where she was due to bring a load of damage was minor. coal for the city power plant. The harbor entrance depth was four feet May 1...American Ship Building Co. shy of the ship’s minimum require has won a $2 million contract to ments . convert H. R, Schemm into a self- unloading cement carrier for Huron April 24...The old paddlewheel Portland Cement Company. TELESCOPE April 89
GREAT LAKES AND SEAWAY NEWS April TELESCOPE 90
GREAT LAKES AND SE/ U M P NEWS
SEAWAY ATLANTIC FRIEND (e ATLANTBRIS d Montrose c Francois L. D. b Cephee a Francois L. D.) from Atlantic NEWS Friend A/B (Sweden) to Atlantic Ven ture Carriers Inc. (Liberia); re named Atlantic Venture.
BASIL II (b Lyon a Allen G. Col Iins) from Diego Cia. Armadora S. A. to Reliance Marine Corp. S. A. (both Liberia); renamed Ever Prosperity.
BOGLIASCO (c Murillo b Celtic Star Compiled by George Ayoub a Empire Galahad) from Industrial Marittima S.p.A. (Italy) to Ocean Shipping & Enterprises (Panama) S. Note: Capitalized names are ones A. (Panama); renamed Ocean Peace. which have been used in Seaway trade while those in lower case letters CELIA B. (d E 1isabeth Jansen c were borne before or after the Sea Vorkbrook b Stanway a Empire Record) way service of the ship in question. from Marine Ventures Corp. to Prymo Meltemi Cia. Nav. S. A. (both Liber ian); renamed SAINT MARY. TRANSFERS AND RENAMING COUESNON (a Flat Knot) from Cie. AEGEAN SUN (c Violando b Mont San de Nav. Paquet (France) to Eastern dra a Alexandra Park) from Seas Shipping Lines Inc. (Philippines); Trading Corp. to Republic Log Car renamed Eastern Jupiter. riers Inc. S. A. (both Liberia); re named Mindanao Logger. DAGALI, owned by A/S Ocean (John P. Pedersen 8c Son) (Norway); renamed African Gulf (d SANTA REGINA c Sea Stolt Dagali. Comet II b Jeff Davis a John Land) from Farrell Lines Inc. to Liberty DAGRUN, from A/S Ocean (John P. Nav. 8c Trading Co., Inc. (both USA); Pedersen 8c Son) (Norway) to Hemi renamed Norberto Capay. sphere Shipping Co. Ltd . (?); re named Hemisphere. Alioth, from Van Nievelt, Goudria- ELISABETH HENDRIK FISSER, from an 8c Co. ’s Stoomv. Maats. , Nether lands, to Van Nievelt, Goudriaan & Hendrik Fisser A. G. (West Germany) Co.’s Stoomv. Meats. G.m.b.H., Ham to Maracienda Cia. Nav. S. A. (Greece); renamed Nikodromos. burg (West Germany); renamed YILDUN. ERNA WITT, from Hinrich Witt (West Andros Trident (c Agia Triada b Germany) to Smith’s Coasters Pty. Seamerit a Simon Benson) from Trans Ltd. (South Africa); renamed Inyala. marine Nav. Inc. to Caroline Nav. Inc. (both Liberian); renamed SAN ERVIKEN, from Wallem, Steckmest 8c BENITO. Co. A/S (Norway) to A/B Vasa Ship ping O/Y (Finland); renamed Gracia. ANGLIAN, from Ellerman Lines Ltd. (British) to African Coasters (Pty) Gialia (d Pent eli II c OLYMPOS b Ltd., South Africa; renamed Bulwark. Laurentian Lake a Fort Assinihoinc) trom Corona Cia. Nav. to Marimperia ARDEA (b Vet tor Pisani a Fort Al Cia. Nav. S. A. (both Greece); re exandria) from Marittima Napoletana named Paxoi. Soc. di Nav. (Italy) to Cia. de Nav. Mario S. A. (Liberia); renamed Tor- HADSUND (a Richard Brohan) from n ado. D/S Hafnia A/S (Denmark) to Foster TELESCOPE April 91
GREAT LAKES AND SEAWAY NEWS
j q h h emcssoH
The Great Lakes may see no whaleback like. Slightly less than fifty such vessels in service this season. The steamers and barges were built at Canadian whaleback steamer John West Superior, Wisconsin, from the Ericsson has just been retired by late 1880s to the late 1890s. Their her owners, Upper Lakes Shipping creator, Alexander McDougall, is a Ltd., of Toronto. The same fleet good example of the nineteenth cen has two whaleback barges laid up at tury inventor, who not only devel Goderich. The Lakes only other oped the basic type of ship, but whaleback, the tanker Meteor, of designed all of its fittings and Cleveland Tankers, Inc., is indica adapt at ions as well. Only one pas ted as “ not in commission’’ in the senger whaleback was built, the 1964 Great Lakes Red Book. Time was Christopher Columbus, which served when the whaleback was considered to the 1893 World’s Fair at Chicago. be the typical Great Lakes vessel, Above is a deck view of John Eric as shown in Geography books and the sson under way in Toronto Harbor early in the I960 season. The typi cal rounded deck and placement of Enterprise Co. Ltd. (?); renamed cabins on turrets above the deck was Foster Enterprise. to allow heavy seas to wash across HEINRICH SCHULTE, owned by Schulte the deck without harm. Except for 8c Bruns Schiff. Ges. m.b.H. (West the half-whaleback Alexander McDou Germany); renamed Joachim Schulte. gall of 1898, which had a conven tional bcw instead of the typical INES (b Agwicomet a Carrier Cove) “pig” snout, John Ericsson was the from Nationwide Leasing Co. to Jack largest of this type, having a hull son Shipping Corp. (both USA); re 390 feet long. She was one of the named Jackson. Later transferred last to be built. dating from 1896. again, to Transasia Carriers Corp. (also USA); renamed Bonanza. Aye atque vale! April TELESCOPE 92
GREAT LAKES AND SEAWAY NEWS
JACKSON PRINCESS (c Pass of Balla ter b Raffinage a Pass of Ballater) owned by Holyrood Shipping Ltd. (British); renamed Holyrood Princess
LEAMITRA (a LEADA) from Leo Adams Reederei to Van Nievelt Goudriaan & Co.’s Stoomvaart Maats. (Hamburg) G. m.b.H. (both West Germany); renamed Sulaphat.
LEANNA, from Leo Adams Reederei to Hamburg-Grosse Seen Linie A. Kirsten G.m.b.H. (both West Germany); re named Sheliak.
LEERSUM, from N. V. Stoomv. Maats. Oostzee (Vinke Sc Zonen) (Nether lands) to Sampsa Cia. Nav. S. A. (Li beria); renamed Prodromos.
MAX MANUS (a Troma) from A/S Olymp (Einar Lange) (Norway) to Therean LtcLa. (Greece); renamed Flora N. (See also listing under casualties.)
MARIA TERESA G . , from Gestioni Es- ercizio Navi.-G.E.N. S.p.A. (Italy) to Liberiam Nav. Co. S.A. (Liberia); renamed Maria Teresa.
NIGELLA (c Olga Torm b Olga S. a Gro); from Rydberg Sc Streiffert A/B (Sweden) to Kupferhutte Ertel Bieber Sc Co. (West Germany); renamed Julia C. Ertel.
NORSE CORAL (launched as Totem Star), owned by Fulcrum Shipping Co. Ltd. (Silver Line Ltd.) (Nassau); renamed TOTEM SHAR.
NYCO, from Sameiet Nykvaern (Nor way) to Deutsche- Seereederei (East Germany); renamed Rosenort.
PERICLES, owned by D/S A/S Eikland This view from Detroit’s Ambassador (I. M. Skaugen Sc Co. ) (Norway); re Bridge shows two ships which will named Skaugran. not be seen from there this season. PORT EN BESSIN (a William H. Lane) Passing closely under tie bridge is from French Government to Charles Columbia’s bulk carrier David Z. Auguste Audibert (France); renamed Norton, recently reported sold for 1 5 ly. scrapping. More distant is the McCarthy automobile carrier George RAGNEBORG, from Rederi A/B Ragne H. Ingalls, which will remain tied (Ragnar Nilsson) (Sweden) to Vera up this year with her fleet, as told Cruz Cia. Nav. S. A. (Peru); renamed in our last issue. Rosaldina. TELESCOPE April 93
GREAT LAKES AND SEAWAY NEWS
Recife (a HARTISMERE) from Dell VOLUMNIA, from G.b.R. ms. Volumnia Enterprises Ltd. (Bermuda) to Mari to G.b.R. ms. LeaJott (both West time & Industrial Corp. (Liberia); Germany); renamed Lealott. renamed Caroline. WINDSOR, from Britain SS Co. Ltd. (British) to Great Eastern Shipping SALAH ELDIN (b Mohamed Ali El Ke- Co. Ltd. (India); renamed Jag Ketu. bir a Atchison Victory) from The Wyoming (e MOUNT EVANS d National United Arab Maritime Co. (Egypt) to Liberty c John Paul Jones b Nikos Salvador Investment Co. Inc. (Liber a Sarah Orne Jewett) from Midwest ia); renamed Mercantile Victory. Shipping & Trading Corp. (USA) to SALATIGA (a Williams Victory) from Cia. Mar. S. A. (Liberia); renamed Konink Rotterdamsche Lloyd N. V. Yucatan. (Netherlands) to Magellan Strait CASUALTIES AND LOSSES Development Corp. (Liberia); renamed Salamat. Agia Erini L. (c Koumiot i ssa b SAN GIUSTO (a Richard B. Moore) ATLANTIC WATER a Richard J. Hop!- ins) from Carlo Martinolich (Italy) to foundered February 3, 1964, in a U. S. S. R.; renamed Mashuk. position 30.22 N, 153 E, some 600 STEGE (a Ebba Robbert) from Reder- miles southeast of Yokohama, after iet Seaway (Denmark) to Coast Lines developing leaks and hull fractures in very heavy weather, enroute from Ltd. (presumably British); renamed Portland to Kawasaki. Her crew was Terrier. saved. SUSQUEHANNA (b Sally Stove a Jan CISSOULA (a B aron Scott) owned by Pieterszoon Coen) from Cia. Atlan- Aristides Steamship Co. S. A. (of tica Pacifica S. A. (Panama) to Nep Greece) was abandoned by her crew tune Marine Corp. (Liberia); renamed after being n collision in fog off Neptune. Selsey Bill, February 25, 1964, with Svanho 1m (c Rl.INA b Goya a Kame- the Swedish vessel Solklint. She run) frcrr D/S A/S Svanholm (T, Mat- was, however, taken in tow by the land Jr.) to Skips A/S Hilde (Chris tug Samsonia and brought into Cowes ten K. Gran) (both Norway); renamed Roads. Hilde. CORFU ISIJND, previously reported TRANSONTARIO (b POLYCREST a Harpe- aground in the Gulf of St. Lawrence fjell) from Poseidon Schiffahrt G.m. and abandoned by her crew, Decernh i b.H. (West Germany) to P. Vrangcs 20, 1963, has been deferred until (Greece); renamed Tavros. May, 1964, for attempts to salvage. She was owned by Marathon C.a Nav TROMA, from A/S J. Ludwig Mowri- iera (Lebanon). ckels Rederi (Norway) to Cia. Nav. Continental S. A. (Liberia); renamed Dori (d PRAXITELES c Anassa b Romano. Phoenix a Edwin L Crake), owned by Atalaya Cia. Nav. (Liberia), was. VALERIA, owned by Hamburg-Grosse beached near Ponta Delgada, Azores, Seen Linie A. Kirsten G.m.b.H. (West January 16, 1964, after developing a Germany); renamed POLARIS. /Note: leak enroute from Emden to New Or She was the first salty through the leans. Soon af't: being beached, Seaway in 1963.) there were two explosions, and the VIRE (a David A. Curry) from the ship sank in a position 37.44 N, French Government to Cia. San Gio 25.38 W. vanni S. A. (Panama); renamed Apol- Flora N (b MAX MANUS a Troma, see 1 onian. April TELESCOPE 94
GREAT LAKES AND SEAWAY NEWS
above), owned by Therean Ltda. (Pan ILLUSTRATIONS ON OPPOSITE PAGE: ama, but Greek flag), was beached some three miles southwest of Ibiza after an engine room explosion had been followed by fire while she was PRINSES IRENE, owned by Oranje discharging cement at Ibiza, January Line, Rotterdam, has been chartered 25, 1964. She was towed out of the by Cunard Steamship Co. Ltd., for port and beached to allow the fire freight service only, until Septem to burn itself out. The ship is ber of 1964. Her near sister, PRIN very extensively damaged amidships, SES MARGRIET, continues to be char and three members of her crew lost tered by Hoiland-America Line until their lives. next summer, also for freight ser vice only. Presumably this will GLENVIEW (c RUTH ANN b Belvaux a mean that the lakes will see no Bruxelles), owned by Theo Naviera ocean-going passenger-cargo liners Inc. (Liberia), went aground January in this beginning season except for 24, 1964, on Chinchorro Bank, off the same line’s smaller, 60-passen Yucatan, in a position 18.35 N, ger PRINS WILLEM VAN ORANJE. The 87.17 W, enroute from Puerto Barrios two sisters each carry 115 passen to Tampico, and later broke up and gers. became a total loss. PRINSES IRENE (m.s.), passenger- WILTRADER (a Igadi), owned by A/S cargo. 1959, Hfrdinxveld; Schps. 86 Awilco (Anders Wilhelmsen) (Norway), Mach. “ De Merwede,” hull #546. Mea went aground in Punta Indio Channel, surements: 8533 gt; 4705 nt; 8800 February 19, 1964, while on a voyage dwt; 455.9’ x 61.3’ x 28.3’. Power: from Buenos Aires to Rotterdam. She Diesel engine, 2 SA. 10 cyl. 700 x was refloated, however, on Feb. 28. 1200 mm., M.A.N., by Verolme Masch., Ijsselmonde. 8600 bhp. Speed, 16‘/4 SCRAPPINGS knots. Owners: Oranje Line, Rot terdam (Fjel 1-Oranje Line). Photo AFRICAN COUNT (c Pelopidas b Tan- by George Ayoub at St. Lawrence Sea tara a White rock Park, launched as way Lock #7, Iroquois, Ont., July, F o r t Daer), sold by West African 1963. Nav. Ltd. (Liberia) to Japanese Shipbreakers, reported April, 1963. The pre-Seaway-size ocean freight er FAIR HEAD is being lengthened by CORINTHIAN, sold by Ellerman Lines about 4714 feet by Boeles S. W. 86 Ltd., Liverpool, to W. H. Arnott M. F. Bolnes. She is owned by G. Young & Co. Ltd. for scrapping at Heyn 86 Sons Ltd., Belfast (Ulster SS Dalmuir, Glasgow. Arrived, March, Co. Ltd.). Her deadweight capacity 1963. will be increased from 2600 to 3300
EPINAL (a Josiah Parker), previ tons. ously reported sold for scrap, but FAIR HEAD (m.s.) (#300029), 1957, this proves incorrect. The sale Arnhem; Arnhemsche Schps. Maats., fell through, and she was sold for hull #381. Measurements: 1573 trading. She is now renamed Deka, gt; 648 nt; 2640 dwt; 258.3’ x 42.4’ under the Liberian flag. x 18’. Power: Diesel engine 2 SA. PATAPSCO RIVER (e Running Eagle d 4 cyl. 600 x 900 mm., by N. V. Werk Patria c Conqueror b Benoil a Moose spoor, Amsterdam. 1800 bhp. Speed, Mountain Park), sold by Cia. de Nav. 13/4 knots. Owners: Ulster Steam San Agustin S. A. (Panama) to Japan ship Co. Ltd. (Head Line), Belfast. ese Shipbreakers, reported March, Photo by George Ayoub, at St. Law 1963 (probably incorrect; may be rence Seaway L ock #7, Iroquois, Ont. March, 1964?) September 15, 1963. TELESCOPE April 95
GREAT LAKES AND SEAWAY NEWS
\ Telescope
01 •• > i > 1 o 1 01 1 • p • fp 01 rP p p o 3 A 01 A P Tlie Great Lakes G E P p rp p P p P U P
PICTURE PAGE EDITOR.
01 I en p 01 1 CN G p p en 01 P . EMORY A. MASSMAN. JR . ai 01 01 0 E ■p m P H•P G G 01 73 p P p ro p cr» •P p 0 P a i BLUEPRINT EDITOR. CHARLES LABADIE 0 Q j 3 p 01 p 0 •P ■ § p E P CP c p P > i 01 ai 0 •*» UG 2 H c * a ro G £ 73 ASSOCIATE EDITORS. P ro •P *p P • p 73 C C G a U Qj TJ a p P 0 0 0 01 01 WILLIAM A. HOEY •P p 0 73 *P p c a rp 01 P P •p 01 0) 3 m A p • 01 73 3 p >1 N O G p •P 3 01 ROBERT E . LEE o E G P 01 p •P rC 0 • P p 01 G < /o rC 0 C - 0 p GU •P o OTTO STREK W P p (0 01 >3 »0 3 P • p G 01 • p en p G e n 73 01 > P 01 01 3 01 p 01 • 0 •p 01 G p GREAT LAKES MARINE NEWS © p T5 en p 0 0 73 w •P G 73 H 01 P 0 P ro a P PU 01 0 3 z 73 01 01 •P G ro 73 EDITOR. ROBERT RADUNZ P u 3 G p ro 3 a N £ 0) 0 p -H u-r 01 0 ro 3 ,Q 01 •P H 2 0 P O p u « Cu 01 c P 3 p assistant, ED ANDREWS ■ c E QJ •P 0 ro 0 P G 01 "* 01 •» 3 p iG *3 en NEWS photographs. WILLIAM A. HOEY M 01 01 01 01 3 CA p 01 C G Qj • • * u 0) P 0 p 01 0 CORRESPONDENTS. O *p • * *P 3 •P P P ro 01 01 ■P a Ip 01 ZP 01 Qj G P G u P 01 01 01 0) ro ro CA *p ro GEORGE AYOUB P p p 01 G ■ 8 U 01 > P P ro ro 01 01 M X QJ > p 01 LEONARD BARR M 01 » P X 01 01 G ro 01 c P fO ro 01 01 p ro P G CA 3 s O •P 01 p a A 01 <0 g FRED W. DUTTON rp 01 Eh * P *8 0) 01 0) ■ 01 •P 01 P p 73 p 3 P EDWIN SPRENGELER • iC rQ G 0 ro a 01 01 3 G ro p P 01 01 G P S P 01 > i OTTO STREK P 01 p p P ro ro •P > c a G 0 0 P e> ro p •H p 01 ro *P EP 01 •5 01 P O 01 X DAN M. WEBER p 01 G 73 P 0 a 01 G •P E 0 •P P O p G H rp en PETER B. WORDEN • 01 73 E 01 0 en 0 p ro 01 01 01 .01 , c 01 p u 01 G §M RICHARD J . WRIGHT O p 01 P 01 0 A P G p G P -P 01 > ro p Q 01 p 0 •P 0) p 0) 01 O p p rp ro p p 73 P u G G 01 01 U P 3 01 p 01 G 0 G 01 printed in united states of America by E< •P 01 P 01 O P ro 01 •P 3 P H p ROBERT H. DAVISON. WATERVI LLE , OHIO