GREAT LAKES MARITIME INSTITUTE D O S S in G R EA T L a K E S M U S E U M Belle Isle, Detroit, Michigan 48207 I

JANUARY ☆ FEBRUARY 1988 Volume XXXVII; Number 1

- GREAT LAKES MARITIME INSTITUTE D O S S IN G R EA T L A K E S M U S E U M Belle Isle, Detroit, Michigan 48207 I . TELESCOPE Page 2 MEMBERSHIP NOTES • The centerfold in this issue is the information flyer that will be given out by the Dossin Museum volunteers at the Michigan Boat Show at Cobo Hall in Detroit. The museum will have a space at the show from February 6-14. Members that have volunteered in previous years will receive a sign-up sheet, Those wishing to volunteer for the first time should contact the museum for a sign-up sheet. We said in the fall that the pilot house from the Wm. Clay Ford would be installed at the museum. There were several delays in the paperwork, so the pilot house remains in storage. With the severe weather that occurred in December, it was best that we didn’t begin the foundation. When the ground thaws in the spring, work will begin on the foundation. There are several new books available at the museum. John Greenwood has written the final book in the Namesakes period series. Namesakes 1900-1910 completes the earlier histories of freighters and sailing ships that no longer sail the lakes. It sells for $24.75. Chris Kohl has written Shipwreck Tales: The St. Clair River. This book examines the early shipping disasters on the St. Clair River to 1900. Included in the book are photographs, notes for divers and maps. It sells for $15.95. Both books can be ordered from the museum for $2.50 added for UPS postage.

MEETING NOTICES • Capt. Graham Grattan of the m/v Yankcanuck will be our guest speaker on Friday, January 22 at 8:00 p.m. at the museum. See meeting notice on page 26. Mr. Greg Rudnick will be our guest speaker on the cement carriers on Friday, March 18th. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. The next Board of Directors meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the museum on Thursday, February 18th. The election ballot for the Board of Directors will be finalized at this meeting.

CONTENTS •

Membership notes, meeting notices etc. 2 The Wonderful Arks of the Great Lakes by Robert McGreevy & Bob Misky 3 So Long Saginaw Bay: Last of the Mitchell Fleet by Skip Gillham 8 French & British Cannons Recovered in the Detroit River 13 William Clay Ford Pilot House Project 15 Great Lakes & Seaway News Edited by Don Richards 18 January Entertainment Meeting 26

OUR COVER PICTURE ... For over three decades the steamer Greater Detroit was a fixture on the Detroit River scene. This view shows her upbound, passing the Britannia of the old Detroit & Windsor Ferry Company with the newly constructed Ambassador Bridge in the background. This limited edition lithograph by Robert McGreevy is available at the Dossin Museum store. .

Telescope is produced with assistance from the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, an agency of the Historical Department of the City of Detroit. JAN ☆ FEB, 1988 Page 3 THE WONDERFUL ARKS OF THE GREAT LAKES

Originally printed in the Saturday Evening Post May, 1950 by Rufus Jarman

Compiled for this issue by Robert McGreevy and Bob Misky

Along about the first of April each spring, are full of ice. A few weeks later on, real smoke the city of Detroit’s fire department ascends from the steamer’s stacks, as the receives a number of false alarms turned in by engines are tuned up, and at that time much citizens who are disturbed by the great clouds interest centers around the D&C docks. For of steam, which they mistake for smoke, when the thirty-one-foot paddle wheels are arising from the Detroit River dock of the tested, D&C has the last side-wheelers left on Detroit and Cleveland Navigation Company, the lakes, they usually chum up several bodies the largest and oldest passenger-ship line which have floated down the river during the operating on the Great Lakes. winter and lodged under the company’s docks. The alarms are usually inspired by D&C ships have thus solved deaths and disa- people who are fairly new to Detroit. pearances that had remained mysteries for as Old-timers know it means that workmen with long as twenty years, even bringing to light steam guns are cleaning the winter grime skeletons bound in chains, victims of the gang from the D&C ships, which have been tied wars during Prohibition. up during the cold months when the lakes When spring refitting is completed, the

GREATER DETROIT. TELESCOPE Page 4

the gangplank while passengers crowd the railings.

D&C ships are ready to ply the lakes, first, second or third class passengers on as they have for the past century, from D&C ships. Anybody can use any deck or eat in Decoration Day until Labor Day regularly each the main dining room, if he wishes to night between Detroit and Cleveland, and pay the price there. The only social Detroit and Buffalo, with additional one-day distinction is in rooms. A good percen excursions to nearby points of interest and tage of rooms are inside affairs without bath or special cruises into the upper lakes. toilet, which cost $3.50, $7.25 including There are five ships in the fleet: the passage ticket, from Detroit to Buffalo. The steamers Greater Detroit - Capt. Lee C. De- most elite are veranda-parlors, large double Nike, and City of Detroit m - Capt. Donald bedrooms with paneled walls, bath, shower McRae, which handles the Detroit-Buffalo run; and toilet and a private deck. the City of Cleveland ZZ7 - Capt. Rudolf Also unhke some of the big ocean liners, Kiessling, the cruise ship; and the Western these ships do not haul many cele States - Capt. John F. Redman and brities. D&C probably gets its most Eastern States - Capt. James B. McCullough, distinguished passenger loads on chartered which makes the Detroit-Cleveland run. The cruises, such as one several years ago when the ships range in size and age from the Cleveland in hauled forty-five of the Eastern and Western States, built in 1902, nation’s forty-eight governors to a convention which are 362 feet long with an eighty-foot at Mackinac Island. beam and a passenger capacity of 735, on up Chartered cruises range all the way from to the Greater Detroit, built in 1924, which groups of high school senior classes taking is 536 feet long, with a 100-foot beam their graduation trips to the annual cruise of and a passenger capacity of 2127. the Detroit Board of Commerce. For the past Outwardly the ships resemble a combination few years, large business concerns have been of an overgrown Mississippi River steamboat, chartering D&C ships to hold their annual a vessel of the Hudson River Day Line and an sales conventions. Officials have found that ocean liner. Inside, they have the ginerbread this is an excellent way to keep their elegance of an earlier day. They are ornate and salesmen in hand so they can be rounded Victorian looking, with fancy curved banisters, up easily when it is time to listen to an carved woodwork and Doric columns suppor important sales talk. ting mahogany-beamed ceilings. Most people who live outside the Great Unlike the large ocean liners, there are no JAN ☆ FEB, 1988 Page 5

Lakes district never heard of the D&C Line, and blue-chip and paid high dividends. and they are generally suprised at the size of Travel was so heavy that many passengers the steamers when they first see them, just as didn’t expect to get a room or bed, but most people are usually amazed at the great were contented with a seat. Until recent years, size of the lakes on first sight. The lakes and in fact, no passenger traveling alone could their connecting rivers cover 95,275 square be assured of a room to himself unless he miles, and it is 2200 miles from the western bought both berths. Of course, the line saw end of Lake Superior to the Gulf of the to it when strangers were sharing a room, St. Lawrence. there was no mixture of men and women. In a season, D&C ships haul nearly There were, however, occasional slip-ups. 400,000 people, counting all the line’s Once a young women made an overnight services; and residents of Detroit, Cleveland, trip from Detroit to Cleveland, intending to Buffalo and other lake cities have for years, return to Detroit the following night. When she regarded the line as a tradition and an came aboard at Cleveland for the return institution. Thousands of people associate the trip, she approached the purser shyly and D&C with their honeymoons to Niagara asked if she could be transferred to another Falls and with their vacations years ago in the room if the same passenger was going to days of the hobble skirt and the derby share her room again. “That man in the berth hat. There have been many instances when under me snored so loud last night,” couples who had honeymooned aboard a she told the startled purser, “that I hardly certain ship ten or fifteen or twenty-five got a wink of sleep. ’ ’ years before have returned and requested the Since the early 1930’s, however, passenger same room for an anniversary cruise. business has been poor compared with the The D&C line dates back to 1850, boom days of the past. The reason has been forty-three years after Robert Fulton made his competition of the automobile, the airplane famous cruise on the Hudson in the and the streamlined train. Several years ago Clermont, when two steamers, the Southerner D&C gave up hauling package freight, and the Baltimore, began making regular trips formerly a lucrative business, because of between Detroit and Cleveland. The firm was motor truck competition. Except during the incorporated in 1868, and for sixty-five war, the line had lost money each year since years thereafter business was terrific. 1932. D&C stock was considered gilt-edged However, the management changed hands

George Kolowich, new head of the company, Entertainment includes such diversions drops in on Capt. Lee De Nike. as the hat making competition. TELESCOPE Page 6

Up in the ship's bow, passengers enjoy The GREATER DETROIT carries cars as sun bathing and the horse race game. well as 2127passengers. two years ago, when control passed from the crew drew full pay. Last season Kolowich put McMillan family, a clan of Detroit aristocrats these two ships to work during the day, hauling who had headed D&C since it was incor excursionists from Detroit to Put-in-Bay, while porated and the company was taken over by the ship that happens to be in Cleveland, George Kolowich, the son of Polish makes a similar nm to Cedar Point. The crowd immigrants, and a financial wizard who has ranges from about 1000 on week days at the been astounding the bankers along Griswold height of the season to 1800 on weekends, thus Street for years with his coups. Many bringing in about $20,000 to $25,000 a week. Detroiters who know him figure that if anybody There are several hazards in the Put-in-Bay can revive passenger business on the D&C, operation, including lost children. Perhaps half Kolowich can. To bear this out, in 1948, a dozen crises will occur aboard on a his first year in control, Kolowich grossed busy Sunday. These children alarm the entire $3,500,000 and broke even on the D&C opera ship with outcries until some officer tion, although he went in the hole $144,000 takes them in charge, buys them ice cream in depreciation charges. The previous year the and shows them the engine room and pilot firm had grossed $2,800,000 and had lost house while their parents are being $625,000. During the season just passed, D&C located. cleared about $100,000 before depreciation. Somewhat more complex situations arise Besides increasing business, Kolowich hopes when two families get their lunch baskets within the next two or three years to replace mixed. When the baskets are opened his old side-wheelers with big, new, stream ashore, one family is sure to protest loudly lined vessels designed more to increase the that instead of the caviar and chocolate passenger’s comfort and convenience than cake they’d packed, they’ve opened a to impress him with Victorian splendor. basket full of peanut-butter sandwiches and One of Kolowich’s methods of putting the bologna. They expect the D&C folks to do D&C in the black has been to get more use out something about it. of his ships. Formerly, it was customary to Another hazard lies in the fact that allow either the Eastern States or the Western Put-in-Bay is celebrated for its fine grapes and States, whichever was in Detroit that many wineries. Sometimes people who have day, to lie idle at its docks while the consumed considerable beer on the way out JAN ☆ FEB, 1988 Page 7 will lap up large amounts of wine ashore. This which is only overnight and doesn’t give produces great confusion in the mind and them time to get into much trouble. motor reflexes, so that when it is time Amateur yachtsmen are sometimes annoying to go home, somebody occasionally tries to when they insist on coming up to the wheel walk aboard the ship at a point where house with their sextants and, after taking there is no gangplank, and has to be fished sights, assure the officer on watch of the ship’s from the water. exact position, usually missing by somewhere Then there was the case of the saxo from fifteen to fifty miles. phone player in one of the ships’ band Other passengers have words with the who had to be dragged from the water once bridge for various strange reasons. Not as his ship was leaving Detroit. This long ago the Western States was plowing into a musician had chronic trouble in getting to the fairly heavy sea along a course that ship by sailing time. He cut his margin caused little pitching and no rolling. narrower and narrower as the summer went on, Presently the course was changed, causing the until near the season’s end, he would run out ship to roll somewhat. A lone woman on the wharf after the ship was moving, sitting on deck, just forward of and below the throw his instrument aboard and leap on after wheelhouse turned angrily toward the bridge it. On the season’s last sailing, he cut his time a and shouted at the officer on watch to ask little too thin. His saxophone made it, but what objection he had to her sitting he didn’t. there. The surprised officer said he had Each D&C vessel has an orchestra of from none whatever. “If you don’t object to three to six pieces that plays for dancing and my being here,” the woman demanded, holds forth near the gangway before each “ why do you keep rocking this end of sailing. The bandsmen usually wear white the boat?” yachting caps, a circumstance that caused A good many people believe that the great alarm to a passenger enroute to hardest working man on lake steamer is the Cleveland one fall. The lake was rough, and purser, who gets the complaints when rooms the band began to be seasick. They managed to on shipboard turn out not to be so roomy play until time for the dancing to stop, when and airy as those costing the same price in a two musicians made a dash for a lava good hotel. tory. A drunk, entering a minute or so A perennial headache to the purser later and seeing a man in a white nautical- comes from pets brought aboard by fond looking cap being sick, immediately concluded owners, who become enraged or tearful when that the bandsman was the captain. informed that their dogs, cats, monkeys, He rushed out in terror and announced that all birds or white mice are not allowed in their was lost. The captain, he said, was staterooms. seasick; and if the water was that rough, the At one time, a purser attempting to ship would undoubtedly sink. be nice to a favored D&C patron, agreed According to Maurrie Baker, a D&C band to take her large and handsome police dog leader off and on for a dozen years, into his room for the night. AU went weU shipboard musicians have to cope with other between the purser and dog untU bedtime, situations that other musicians never have to when the dog disdained a blanket spread for face. One night Davis and his accordionist, him on the floor, leaped upon the bed and Herman Fine, went out on deck for a smoke snarled so fiercely that he drove the night- during intermission just as a young woman shirted purser out of his own quarters to find passenger, discouraged because her gentle his rest elsewhere. man friend had been dancing with someone Sometimes the purser delegates pet control else, was in the act of leaping over the to his assistant. On one occasion the side. Davis grabbed her by one leg, assistant was told to stand at the foot Fine by the other, and they hauled her of the staircase in the main haU during an back. When she tried the same thing embarkation, and see that nobody sneaked thirty minutes later, the captain clapped her a pet upstairs. The assistant noticed a woman in the brig. start up who had some furs resembling tails of On the whole, however, passengers do small animals over one arm, and one not cause the ships’ companies much worry. of the tails moved suspiciously. He made a Most of them are traveling from Detroit grab, and suddenly found himself holding by to Buffalo or Cleveland or vice versa, the tail a large and enraged cat. □ (Continued in M arch issue) TELESCOPE Page 8

SO LONG SAGINAW BAY:

THE LAST OF THE MITCHELL FLEET

by SKIP GILLHAM Special to Telescope

The brothers John and Alfred Mitchell built By the late 1800’s, however, the brothers a major shipping business on the Great Lakes realized lumber would not dominate lakes in the late 19th and early 20th Century. Their trading much longer. The future lay in the tran story resembles that of many enthusiastic and sportation of ore and coal and new additions to hard working entrepreneurs of that era. the fleet would have to carry these commodi They started with little, saved as they learned, ties. invested wisely and reaped the benefits. With their head office moved to Cleveland, The Mitchell fleet traces its roots to the the Mitchells developed a fleet of ships that purchase of a scow in 1870. The Mitchell’s then moved from wooden steamers and barges to expanded gradually. The lumber trade was some of the finest steel freighters afloat. flourishing and their ships moved cargo from Their black-hulled ships sported white the forests and mill ports of the north to the cabins and forecastles. The Mitchell stack, growing industrial centers down the lakes. black with a wide maroon band, was well

FRANK GOODYEAR (i) was lost in a collision in Lake Huron on May 23, 1910. JAN ☆ FEB, 1988 Page 9 Courtesy of Fraser-Nelson Shipyard Photo by Great Lakes Graphics Top: FRANK GOODYEAR (ii) built at GLEW for the Buffalo Steamship Co. Bottom: DIAMOND ALKALI receives a new diesel engine at Fraser Shipyard in 1964. TELESCOPE Page 10

known on the upper four Great Lakes. The earlier Goodyear, a 436-footer, was built Mitchell and Company, the Cleveland Steam in 1902 and lost after a collision on Lake ship Company and Buffalo Steamship Com Huron on May 23, 1910. Both ships were pany were all part of the Mitchell fleet. named for a gentleman who had been very The economic climate often shifted dramati active in lumber and coal transportation around cally. The Cleveland Steamship Company the Great Lakes. passed to the Interlake Steamship Company Frank H. Goodyear cleared on her maiden in 1916 and the following year, the last of the voyage June 19 to load iron ore at new additions to the Mitchell fleet was built. Escanaba, Michigan. With World War I raging This was the Frank H. Goodyear (ii) in Europe, a fine new hull such as this was a (US215204) and she would not spend many valuable addition to the Great Lakes fleet and years in their service. Now, with this ship’s assisted the vital steelmaking capabilities of scrapping in 1985 as Saginaw Bay, the the allies. last member to join the Mitchell fleet became By 1923 the days of the Mitchell fleet were the last of their vessels to sail the ending and the vessels of the Buffalo Steam Great Lakes. ship Company were sold to Boland and Mitchell contracted with the Great Lakes Cornelius. They retained the name Frank H. Engineering Works to build a 600-foot Goodyear until 1939. bulk carrier for the 1917 season. The vessel BoCo, having survived the Depression, constructed at Ecorse, Michigan, for the moved to make this vessel more efficient in Buffalo Steamship Co. Mitchell chose to name 1939. They sent the Goodyear to the shipyard his new acquisition Frank H. Goodyear. It was at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, where she was con the second vessel of this name in the fleet. verted to a seIf-unloader. The number of Photo Photo by Paul M ichaels

DIAMOND ALKALI with altered stack after conversion to diesel. JAN ☆ FEB, 1988 Page 11

i-i* s?~y - / /v-1 m Miwaa*11 Photo Photo by Paul M ichaels

In June, 1976 she was renamed BUFFALO in honor of American Steamship's long association with that city. vessels with this capability, was growing as trip down the Welland Canal with coal to the ease of discharge created a faster run turn Toronto in the forties. Usually she made only around time and thus more payloads one or two trips per year, however, with per season. loading at Sandusky or Fairport. The rebuilt vessel was given the new name of In 1949 the ship carried a season total Diamond Alkali, which was one of Boland & of 963,811 tons while a year later Cornelius’ major customers. Diamond Alkali Diamond Alkali topped the million ton mark spent the war years concentrating on the based on 91 total cargoes. Coal transportation transportation of coal. Occasional stone and the involved the most payloads, but the stone port rare load ofsand were also handled. of Calcite, Michigan was the one most In 1944, for example, the ship hauled 71 frequently visited. Only on rare occasions did payloads and these included 40 shipments of the vessel stray above the Soo Locks to unload coal. Most loaded at Toledo for delivery to at a Lake Superior port. Milwaukee. Stone from Port Inland to Her duties varied a little from year to year Buffalo served as the main backhaul and, with the development of taconite ore down the lakes. pellets, this cargo would be loaded on occasion. One unusual trip that season was a load of By 1969, a year in which the ship had 103 coal from Erie, Pennsylvania, across the lakes different cargoes, stone and coal shared 38 to Port Maitland, Ontario. The route and cargo payloads each. In addition there were 16 were common, but a ship the size of the loads of sand, 7 of ore and 3 of salt. Diamond Alkali was, in those days, unusual A total of 16 loading ports led by Toledo, at Port Maitland. Port Dolomite, Manistee and Stoneport were In the immediate postwar years Diamond used. The prime discharge ports were Alkali continued to carry tons of coal, but Cleveland, Ludington, Essexville, Buffalo and stone, especially out of Calcite to Fairport, Green Bay. Detroit and Ludington, were major runs in the During the early seventies this vessel late forties. regularily topped the one million ton and 100 Diamond Alkali also made the occasional cargo marks. Coal led all cargoes in 1972 and TELESCOPE Page 12 1973, but stone dominated 1971, 1974 via merger. and 1975. Thus this vessel, which came out as part of In the 1973 season the ship got into a pattern the Buffalo Steamship Company, would carry of carrying coal from Toledo to Ashland, the name Buffalo for a year and a half. Wisconsin, and returning down the lakes with In 1977, the one full season as Buffalo, ore out of Duluth for Cleveland. This stretched she carried 1,138,671 tons on 93 cargoes.' through much of the summer and involved They were spread as follows: coal-29, stone-28, 23 ore loads to Cleveland and 21 de gypsum-14, salt-10, ore-7 and sand-5. Toledo liveries of coal and one of stone to Ashland. was tops among the 16 loading ports while The ship covered 55,736 miles that year on Cleveland, a recipient of stone, ore and 263 operational days. sand, led the 27 different discharge Interestingly, a year later, the last three centers. During the 256 operational days, cargoes of the season were salt to Buffalo travelled 44,794 miles. Toronto. It was the vessel’s only appearance Her fuel cost amounted to $8.16 per milo 0r in the Welland Canal area for a number of $1,428.50 per day. These costs recognized the years. increasing price of fuel and were more than On June 8, 1976, this carrier was double the costs of 1973. renamed Buffalo in a ceremony at Buffalo, With the construction of a new vessel New York. The city is the head office of called Buffalo, this ship opened the 1978 sea the American Steamship Company and the son as Saginaw Bay. There would be but three name recognized its long association with more years of work. Buffalo as well as the fact that the The usual cargoes: coal, stone, gypsum , Diamond Alkali Company had been changed sand, salt and ore were carried by

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t Author’s Photo JAN ☆ FEB, 1988 Page 13 FRENCH & BRITISH CANNONS RECOVERED IN THE DETROIT RIVER

An archaeological expedition which was were markings which denoted that the iron under the direction of the Dossin Great Lakes cannon barrel weighed 1,300 pounds. The Museum/Detroit Historical Department, re third cannon was marked with three covered three vintage pieces of artillery from French fleur-de-lis, and was quite clean when it the Detroit River on Sunday, October 18. was set on the deck of the barge. It was The project was a volunteer effort which damaged however, as one of the trunnions, brought together the services of divers, on which the cannon barrel pivots was broken a tugboat, crane and barge, and a number of off. It is one of the earliest pieces museum support groups. The early morning ever recovered denoting the French presence effort was rewarded with the raising of in Detroit. three well preserved cannon barrels which The historical value of the artifacts, which are evidence of the French and British rule were lost in the Detroit River probably of the area. The first cannon to be lifted by the during the War of 1812 is especially evident crane and set on the deck of the floating work during Michigan’s Sesquicentennial. It is site was in excellent condition, being well hoped that one of the cannons will be placed in preserved in the fresh water of the river. the new Michigan State Museum presently Subsequent cleaning of the iron barrel being constructed in Lansing, sharing with brought to light the crest of the King the people of the state a link to George, and markings which denoted that it their past heritage. weighed 1,200 pounds. The salvage operation was a combined The second cannon was of similar effort of the Gaelic Tugboat Company, size, and it also bore the crest of King Faust Corporation, Great Lakes Underwater George. A large amount of ‘river crust’ Recovery, J.W. Westcott Company and the needed to be cleaned from its’ surface, and a Great Lakes Maritime Institute. The French ‘Broad Arrow’ claiming that it was the and British cannons will be undergoing pre King’s property was uncovered. Likewise there servation at the Dossin Museum. □ Photo Photo by Sam B uchannon

Volunteers begin making preparations behind Cobo Hall to recover three cannons in October, 1987. TELESCOPE Page 14 Photo Photo by Phil Nicwald Photos by John Polacsek

Fleur-de-lis on French cannon. JAN ☆ FEB, 1988 Page 15

HELP US PRESERVE THE PILOT HOUSE

FROM THE S.S. WILLIAM CLAY FORD

The Great Lakes Maritime Institute, a sup Fleet Great Lakes adventure game; a Honorary port group of the Dossin Museum, will sponsor First Mate from $100-$249, will receive a a funding drive to insure the placement and year subscription to the maritime history preservation of the William Clay Ford's magazine Telescope-, a Honorary Captain pilothouse. In 1965 the Great Lakes Maritime for more than $250, will receive a limited Institute undertook a successful funding edition color lithograph of the William Clay drive that allowed the Gothic Room from the Ford by marine artist Paul C. LaMarre, Jr., sidewheel steamer City of Detroit m to be which will be autographed by the last captain of purchased. This classic example of steamboat vessel, Capt. Donald Erickson. Donors in the architecture, IVt tons of carved English oak Honorary Captain’s category will also have and leaded glass, now greets visitors to the their name on a special donors memorial Dossin Museum as all who enter the building which will be mounted in the pilot house. pass under the splendor of the restored wood Donations are tax deductible and should be work from a previous age. made payable to the Great Lakes Maritime Donors will receive special recognition. Institute-Pilot House Project, or the initials A Honorary Watchman from $l-$24, will G.L.M.I.-P.H.P. Send donations to: receive a certificate; a Honorary Wheelsman G.L.M.I.-P.H.P. from $25-$49, will receive a William Clay c/o Dossin Museum Ford baseball cap; a Honorary Second Mate 100 Strand on Belle Isle from $50-$99, will receive a Captain of the Detroit, MI. 48207

Honorary Captain Charles Pletcher Honorary First Mate Honorary Wheelman Mary S. McGraw Robert & Eleanor Eskola Bradley Beam Dennis Young Richard R. Dossin Loftis Wiswell Jack Glasser Harold Schwartz Breitkreuz Custom Models James Carroll Joseph Krystan Robert Guldemond Robert M. Dossin Angeline Kloka David Frincke James Peterson William J. Keller Robert Kuhn Bill Broedell M ichael Sm others Theodore Stromberg George Merwin Arthur Harris Stuart Sheill Kevin & Deirdre O’Donnell The Detroit Yachtswomen John Coulter Rev. Raymond Marshall Neil J. MacNeil In m em ory of H arry W olf Robert Brown H. MacDairmid James Osborn Dennis Kubiak John McLean John Love Wallace Blake Robert K ustasz Sterling Berry Honorary Second Mate Delores Runyan Majorie Oakm an James & Carol Nuzzo Detroit Navigators Club Gerald Runyan Terry Upton John Czam ik David & C hristine M iles Ralph Choiniere Jr. James Koglin M /M Richard DeW alt Gary Pratt Lyle W eiss Comm. Jam es Douglas M/M Douglas P. Dossin Raymond & Frances Lewis Bernard Diselrath Dale Pohto M rs. R obert E. Lee Melvin K ettelhut Michael M ans Marilyn Yon John Staggs 11 Terry Sechen H erbert Zoller Robert Irwin Capt. Donald & Carol Erickson Edw ard Schanbeck Laurence Bernhardt Charles M aledon Brian R. McCaughrin Jam es H em pseed Sandra Hayw ard William Vicary M/M William Slaughter Jr. Richard Russell Frank Orban Mark Orlowski Marine Historical Society of Detroit G eraldine Thornton Alfred Palm er Dr. Edward Gordon Detroit Historical Society Guild Herman Chapman James Bearman Dan Lang Stephan Plafchan Gail Sebastian Detroit U pbeat Inc. Leonard Bantelon James Jeffery Steven Lorenz C.J. Campbell H arold M onberg Capt, and Mrs. James Van Buskirk John Cam eron Dennis Chappell Richard Bibby Roger & Judy Abbott David Domino David Dryburgh Clark Butterfield Mai & Edie Sillars Philip Moon H ugh H arness John Groustra Richard Olson Paul Durance Paul Collins Eric Opland Mrs. Sidonie Knighton Jarvis Schmidt Don Pacholski Charles Comsa Thomas W. Baumgarten M.D. M/M Russel Hebert John Spehar Louis Neum ann M/M Thomas R. Dossin Robert Bums M ichael Gajewski L. Jackson B eaber Capt. Jam es O ’H ara John Hay Richard Nagle John Vournakis David McDonald Joseph Sikora David Cunningham In memory of Mary Ryan M/M Ernest J. Dossin Thomas Rockwell Roger Hewlett F.B. Babchek Mrs. Sidonie Phillips Jo h n Henderson Richard Cary, Jr. William Romanski Christopher Coffey Arline Grout E. Paul Pinner John Hatcher M arian W ardell Qualey H arsons Island G arden Club W illiam Lipkea Robert Fudold In m em ory of Capt. Ray Dowler In m em ory of Charles K eresztes Dennis Foulke Thomas & Joseph Borczak In m em ory of J . Clare Snider TELESCOPE Page 16

Isuzu Diesel of N. America Harold Stirton Thomas Pliska Ben Swiderski Karl Strek Robert Green Jerome Hebda Arthur Moreland Edw ard Prandzinski Paul Bagrow Richard Thoma Melanie Bolthouse W. Ouellette Dennis Sterosky Jonathon M ager Paul & C hristine Hilston William Hayward Thomas Henderson Leon Hopkins Donna Lamontaine Brian Bernard Louis Minnie Walter Germain Cheryl Robisch Lois Greer Mike Hays Donald Rentschler Dino Ianni Frederick Krey Michael Skinner George & Barbara Adams R oger & Ja n e Parke Leo Alcock Jack Goodrich John Padgett Dennis Vernier John Horton C harles Torrey George Henshaw Earl Jenson Jim Gerger H.J. Mainwaring Jo h n Eidt George Haynes H arry Stevens M ark Cowles David Leppala Thomas Young W alter Cowles H arvey Seym our G erald Gilbert P eter W orden Honorary Watchman In m em ory of David Groover Mynasue Zatkin Ralph Burdick Charles DeMars Max Lepler Chester Wilson Arlie Montney Eugene Dew andeler Marjorie Gabriel Chris Nielsen Thom as H oggard Mrs. A.H. Webber K eith Evans George Sherman Mike McCarty George Ward Jr. Kevin Bern George Shepard Chris & Andy Torrence Robert Cosgrove Alice Wiese Richard M lynarek American Marine Douglas Elkins Anthony Basley Howard Treblin Robert Sellers Thomas Moore Phillip Niewald Francis Kloc M arie Ehlers Jean Mossner Ron Kaminski George Murray Lawrence Robbins Stanley Korenkiewicz Frederick Young John Christm an Gary Putney Tony Balaker James Shannahan Herbert Baker Robert Frahm David H ands Betty Nash Richard Anten Patrick C ham bers William H uenke III Jurgen Niemeitz Thomas Alfes Mike Raia Sandra W elch

Ticket Agents and Connecting Lines: Detroit, Michigan, Nov. 23rd, 1925 Service on the Cleveland Division of the DETROIT & CLEVELAND NAVIGATION COMPANY will be discontinued on Nov, 29th from Detroit, and on Nov. 30th from Cleveland. Please discontinue sale of tickets after these dates. Wish to assure you of our appreciation for your support in the past and hope for your co-operation in the future. DETROIT & CLEVELAND NAVIGATION COMPANY General Oflhes, Detroit, Michigan A. A. SCHANTZ j T. MeMJ.LLAN R. G. STODDARD _ ^ Manager Vice-Pm*id«nt General Pusnenger Afient

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Open Wednesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. Closed Mondays, Tuesday and all holidays.

DOSSIN>W9EUM^ JAN ☆ FEB, 1988 Page 17 Photo Photo by Stuart McPherson

SAGINAW BAY in the Welland Canal on her way to Quebec City in July, 1985.

Saginaw Bay, but there were fewer of them. the Detroit River during a fierce wind storm. The ship carried 73 payloads in 1978 and Damage was above the waterline and the ship 1979 plus 89 in 1980. Port Gypsum led the went to Toledo for repairs. loading ports in 1978, Ludington for sand While Saginaw Bay was idle there was in 1979 and Toledo for coal in 1980. a story that her stem would be removed to Buffalo, Alpena and Cleveland were the main repower the more modem John T. Hutchinson. discharge ports. Her last cargo was a load of This plan was rejected and instead the vessel ore out of Escanaba and it was delivered to was sold to Marine Salvage in October, 1984. Cleveland on December 16, 1980. On November 24, 1984, tugs Ohio and After 64 seasons of activity in Great Lakes Kansas brought Saginaw Bay to Port Colborne trading, this ship was consigned to the wall. where she was tucked away for the winter Conversion to a seIf-unloader helped her at Ramey’s Bend. outlast other 600-footers as did the shift to Resold, Saginaw Bay left there on July 7, diesel power in 1964. 1985, with the tugs Glenevis, Argue Martin The vessel had been designed with a and Princess No. 1 taking her to Quebec triple expansion engine, measuring 23-37- City. The fined voyage began July 15 when the 63-42, while three Scotch boilers 13"6" by Polish tug Koral pulled Saginaw Bay and the 11 '3" provided steam. A 4,320 horsepower E.B. Barber down the St. Lawrence. The Nordberg diesel was installed for her trio arrived at Vigo, Spain, August 9, 1985, final 16 years of service. Her tonnage at this where the last of the Mitchell fleet was soon time was registered at 8,409 gross and reduced to scrap. □ 6,661 net. Two collisions are noted in this vessel’s Note: The author wishes to acknowledge career. The first occurred off the Straits of the book ‘ ‘Mitchell Steamship Company, Great Mackinac on October 30, 1948. The other Lakes Saga" by Mary Louise Schaefer, vessel was the Harry W. Croft. Namesakes 1910-1919 by John O. Greenwood Then, on November 28, 1968, Diamond and the research assistance of Jeff Dwor and Alkali and Sylvania, were in a collision on Barry Andersen. GREAT LAKES & SEAWAY NEWS

Editor: Donald Richards Those who have contributed to the News Section in this issue are: 21101 Violet Barry Andersen David Bakara Sr. St. Clair Shores, MI. 48082 Rene Beauchamp Bill Bruce Corps of Eng. Mike Crawford Marc Dease Ed Floyd Seaway News Editor: Skip Gillham Perry Haughton George Haynes William Howell Mike Konczak M.B. MacKay Dan McCormick Terry Sechen Sep. 1. . . The Champlain passed down the Welland Canal under tow of tugs Michael D. Misner and Elmore M. Misner. They arrived in Quebec City on Sept. 5th.

Sep. 3. . . At Milwaukee the captain and crew of the Soviet freighter Zapolyamy were commended by the U.S. Coast Guard for the rescue of two men in Lake Michigan. The two men were aboard a sailboat that capsized about eight miles east of Beaver Island. The men clung to the boat for seven hours before being sighted by the freighter. A lifeboat was lowered and the two men were taken aboard along with the sailboat. Capt. Igor Sugak said “All men are men, whether they are from the Soviet Union or the United States. ’ ’

Sep. 5. . . The U.S. Coast Guard cutter Mobile Bay arrived in Montreal towing a 25-foot diameter buoy. The unusual tow cleared the next day for Lake Michigan.

Sep. 8. . . The Dutch tug Thomas De Gauwdief cleared Quebec with the Cadillac and Champlain for Izmir, Turkey for scrapping.

Sep. 9. . . The Sea-Land Tacoma passed down in the Welland Canal on her delivery trip from Bay Shipbuilding. See page 139 of September Telescope.

. . . The Canadian Mariner cleared her lay-up berth at Thunder Bay and began loading grain. The Algomarine, Algocape and Comeaudoc also begin fitting-out.

Sep. 10. . . While being scrapped, the smokestack from the Eugene W. Pargny collapsed onto her stem cabins. The Joshua A. Hatfield was still tied up to the Azcon Scrap dock.

. . Presidente Allende cleared the Lanoraie Anchorage for Montreal, but was still under arrest. (See August 10 news in November Telescope.)

. . . The large ferry John Hamilton Gray arrived at the shipyard at Les Mechins for overhaul. She is owned by Marine Atlantic and was built by Marine Industries at Sorel in 1968.

Sep. 11. . . Arson was suspected in a fire that gutted the bridge and the upper deck X? .the, J'°rt York' She has been idled for the last two years at the Canadian National Railroad’s dock at Point Edward. Page 18 JAN ☆ FEB, 1988 Page 19

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Sep. 12. . . The Yugoslavian freighter Ruder Boskduic struck the seawall below the Blue Water Bridge in heavy fog. Damage to the seawall was estimated about $180,000. No mention was made of damage to the downbound vessel.

Sep. 13. . . Damage to the metal coping in the upbound side of the Lock 5 of the Welland Canal caused oneway traffic in the flight locks.

Sep. 14. . . The tugs Elmore M. Misner and Michael D. Misner moved the Hudson Transport to the Magill drydock at Port Colborne for conversion to a barge.

. . . The tug Glenada moved the A.H. Ferbert away from the Irving S. Olds in Duluth. Workmen began securing the Ferbert's rudder for a long tow.

Sep. 15. . . The British-flag Irving Cedar cleared Quebec with the Voorhees and Lamont for scrapping overseas in Turkey.

. . . The Edward Cornwallis cleared the M.I.L. Vickers shipyard for Dartmouth. The Enerchem Laker was the only ship left in the yard.

. . . The Glenada cleared Duluth with the A.H. Ferbert in tow. The tug Rhode Island assisted the tow into the lake. They arrived at the Soo on the 19th and the W.J. Ivan Purvis assisted the tow down the St. Marys River to Lake Huron.

Sep. 16. . . The Ashland arrived at Port Colborne under tow of tug Tusker. She passed down the next day with tugs Tusker and Thunder Cape and arrived at Lauzon on September 23rd. Photo Photo by Terry Sechen

The GLENADA and IVAN PURVIS towing the A.H. FERBERT into the Soo. TELESCOPE Page 20

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. . . The ferry Drummond Islander broke down in midstream between Sugar Island and the main land. She drifted downstream for half a mile before anchoring. She was towed back to the Soo for repairs to her main shaft. The regular ferry, Sugar Islander was already laid-up for repairs.

Sep. 19. . . The Samuel Mather (vi) arrived at Port Colborne under tow W.N. Twolan. She cleared the Welland Canal the next day under tow of tugs Twolan, Glenevis and Argue Martin. Several days later they anchored off Wilson Hill, N.Y. be cause the Argue Martin broke down. The Martin was towed to MomsDurg tor repairs and the Glenbrook arrived to take her place. They moved to the St. Zotique Anchorage west of Valleyfield on the 24th. Strong winds delayed their departure for 3 days.

Sep. 22. . . The tall ship Victory Chimes departed Duluth in tow of Norfolk Rebel. She will be towed to St. Michael, Maryland for sale. The Chimes' masts were cut down so she may pass through the Erie Canal and the N.Y. Barge Canal. She cleared the Welland Canal on October 11th.

Oct. 23. . . The Steelcliffe Hall cleared her lay-up berth in Montreal for Thunder Bay.

. . . C.S.L.’s seIf-unloader Saguenay, the Federal Saguenay and the passenger vessel Saguenay were in the Welland Canal on the same day.

. . . The sale of the USX-owned Michigan Limestone quarries was announced today. The sale to a separate partnership includes the operations at Cedarville and Rogers City, MI.

. . . The Canadian Enterprise went aground in the Amherstburg Channel in heavy morning fog. Tugs Susan Hoey, Shannon and Caroline Hoey were unable to free her. At 8 p.m. that night, the Glenside arrived with an empty barge for the Enterprise to offload 1840 tons of coal. When the tug Wm. A. Whitney arrived at 10:30 p.m., the Enterprise was finally pulled free and and resumed her upbound trip.

Sep. 24. . . The Roger Blough cleared her long-term lay-up berth (1981) at Bay Shipbuilding. She was bound for Two Harbors to load pellets.

. . The A.H. Ferbert under tow of tugs Glenada and Elmore Misner passed downbound under the Blue Water Bridge. Later that night she went aground in the St. Clair Cutoff Channel. A shift in the wind was blamed for the grounding. Six tugs worked to free her on the 26th.

Sep. 25. . . The Eglantine was upbound in the Seaway, bound for Toledo with new funnel markings.

. . . The Presidente Allende cleared Montreal. She has been in Canadian water since July 23rd.

Sep. 26. . . The Cartiercliffe Hall and the Lawrencecliffe Hall cleared lay-up in Montreal for Thunder Bay. The Beavercliffe Hall cleared Sorel for Thunder Bay. The Labradoc cleared Montreal for Thunder Bay.

Sep. 27. . The Woodland arrived in Montreal from the Arctic and cleared the next day for Windsor. Her funnel has been repainted plain black. JAN ☆ FEB, 1988 Page 21

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Six tugs work to free the FERBERT when she grounded in Lake St. Clair.

. . .The Aquarama will be moved from Muskegon to Port Stanley, Ontario to be converted to a floating convention center. She has been docked at Muskegon since 1963.

. . .The Roger Blough arrived in Two Harbors to load pellets for Gary, Indiana. After correcting ballast problems, she cleared on the 29th with 43,603 gross tons for Gary.

Sep. 28. . . The A.H. Ferbert arrived in Port Colborne with tugs Glenada and Elmore M. Misner. On October 4th she cleared with Glenside and W.N. Twolan. They passed through the St. Lambert Lock on the 6th and arrived in Lauzon the next day.

. . . The Samuel Mather arrived at Lauzon. The Glenevis and Glenbrook departed for Kingston tomeet the Argue Martin to tow the T.R. McLagan to Toronto. The McLagan has been laid up at Kingston since November, 1984.

. . .The Burlington Northern’s ore dock at Superior was leading in the shipment of iron ore in August. The dock loaded 1,165,986 gross tons in August to bring its total to 6.4 million tons this season. This was 1.8 million tons more that last year.

. . . Canadian marine engineers went on strike over wages. Their contract expired on May 31, 1987.

Sep. 29. . . The Coast Guard buoy tender Sundew has been assigned to the Gulf Coast forthe winter to fight drug smuggling. She will leave Duluth in December and return in mid-April, 1988. TELESCOPE Page 22

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Sep. 30. . . The Mesabi Miner arrived at Silver Bay to load pellets from the stockpile of the closed Reserve Mining Co. She was the first ship to load there since the plant closed last summer.

. . . The William Inglis was upbound in the Welland Canal. She will be drydocked at Port Colborne. The Toronto ferry maybe making her first trip through the caned.

Oct. 1. . . The Henri Tellier arrived in Montreal for the first time since last spring. She was painted red emd carried the Socemav colors on her stack.

. . . The Thomas Wilson eirrived at Port Colborne. She was towed from Toledo by the Tusker.

. . . Iron, coal and coke shipments in August through the Twin Ports were running ahead of shipments last year. Iron ore shipments totaled 2.05 million metric tons compared to 1.5 million metric tons last year. A 37% increase. Total shipments for 1987 were 2.4 million tons ahead of last year.

. . . General cargo shipments through the Twin Ports were down 70% over last year. About 20,000 tons of general cargo has been shipped this year compared to 93,000 tons Photo Photo by Bill Bruce JAN ☆ FEB, 1988 Page 23

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THOMAS WILSON downbound in Welland Canal with tugs TUSKER and THUNDER CAPE. last year. The drop has been caused by low imports of steel and the lack of Food for Peace cargoes.

Oct. 2. . .The Canadian Hunter arrived at the Welland Dock (Wharf 10) for repairs to her condensor system. Repairs should last several weeks.

. . . The Canadian Enterprise cleared Portship after completing repairs.

. . . The Canadian icebreaker Sir Wilfred Laurier passed upbound in the Seaway for PortWeller Drydocks for repairs. She returned to her base at Quebec City a week later. Oct. 3. . . The T.R. McLagan was towed out of Kingston by Glenevis, Glenbrook and Argue Martin for Toronto.

. . . The Thomas Wilson was downbound in the Welland Canal with tugs Tusker and Thunder Cape. They arrived at Lauzon on the 8th.

Oct. 5. . . The Enerchem Refiner arrived in Superior to unload at Marine Fuel Dock. This was the first visit for any of Enerchem’s vessels since they left Halco.

. . . The Lewis Wilson Foy loaded 59,515 gross tons of pellets from the Reserve Mining stockpile at Silver Bay. She was bound for LTV Steel at Ashtabula. TELESCOPE Page 24

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Oct. 7. . . The Stefan Batory cleared Montreal for the last time. She had been a regular caller in Montreal since her first voyage in April, 1969 under that name. Up until October, 1968, she was well-known as the Dutch-flag Maas dam.

Oct. 8. . . While backing into Lorain harbor, a westerly wind pushed the Indiana Harbor into the mud between the piers. She was released a few hours later with the assistance of the tugs Superior and South Carolina.

. . . The Imperial Quebec was sold at Halifax and was renamed Sybil W.

Oct. 9. . . The Cyprus-registered Frank C. passed up in the Seaway for the first time under this name. She was a regular caller in Montreal as Santa Elisabetta.

. . . The Wilfred Sykes arrived in Duluth for the first time since April, 1985. She brought the final cargo of fluxstone for Inland Steel. After unloading she shifted to the Burlington Northern ore dock and loaded the last of raw taconite that Inland will be shipping thru there this season.

Oct. 10. . . The Willowglen went aground near Morrisburg, N.Y. and was refloated on the 13th by tugs Thunder Cape, Tusker, Glenside, Sinmac, Salvage Monarch and Helen M.McAllister. It’s also reported that she was lightered by P.S. Barge No. 1. The next day she resumed her trip to Trois-Rivieres to unload grain from Thunder Bay.

Oct. 11. . . TheEast German flag Eichwalde passed up in the Seaway for Toronto. It s possible that is the firstvessel from East Germany to navigate the St.Lawrence.

. . . The Kristen Lee, a large tug under American registry, passed upbound in the Welland Canal, bound for Sturgeon Bay.

Oct. 12. . . The Canadian Progress anchored off Wilson Hill for engine repairs.

. .Arson is suspected in three fires that heavily damaged the Grand Trunk ferry City of Madison. The 348-foot ferry has not been used since 1971 and is laid up at Muskegon.

. . .The Enerchem Laker resumed service. She moved from Vickers to the oil dock at Montreal East to load for Buffalo. She cleared the next day.

0c*‘ 13‘ • • The old fen7 Block Island entered the Seaway from the east coast for Buffalo. She has been purchased for excursions to Crystal Beach. She was built at Wilmington, Delaware by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co. in 1926. She arrived in Buffalo on the 15th.

Oct. 14. .The Seaway Port Authority of Duluth is asking for bids on thecontainer crane at the Duluth Port Terminal. The crane cost 2.75 million to construct in 1975 has only been used three tunes. When it was installed, it was too small to load containers. They hope to rind someone to use the crane instead of scrapping it.

. . . The bulk camer/container ship Cast Caribou arrived in Montreal for the first the Yufoslavian flag. She was registered in Dubrounik. Since she was built in 1982, she has earned three flags.

1? ',‘.;.The BirchSlen arrived at Toronto under tow of Thunder Cape and Elmore M. Misner. She will be used for grain storage. JAN ☆ FEB, 1988 Page 25

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GEORGE A. SLOAN aground in Amherstburg Channel. The bow stopped just short of the Bob-Lo dock.

Oct. 17. . . The B.F. Affleck was moved to the outer harbor at Port Colborne by tugs Thunder Cape and Elmore M. Misner.

Oct. 19. . . The George A. Sloan had steering gear failure while upbound in the Amherstburg Channel. All three anchors were dropped and when the port anchor parted, she grounded 75 feet from the Bob-Lo dock. Damage was extensive with 4 holes on the port side and one on the starboard. The next day her cargo of coal for Green Bay was offloaded into the Calcite II and the Sloan was refloated with assistance from tugs Shannon and Susan Hoey. The Sloan will be repaired at Toledo.

Oct. 21. . . The Hudson Transport was in Port Weller Drydocks after being towed by Michael D. Misner and R&L No. 1.

. . . The captain of the West German freighter Sirius disappeared from the ship in Lake Michigan while underway from Chicago to Duluth. Searchers found no trace of him in the water. The vessel arrived in Duluth and anchored inside the harbor on the 24th. The FBI entered the case and interviewed the crew about Capt. Fredrich Helling. The vessel was allowed to load a cargo of wheat and departed on the 29th with a new captain for Italy. When she cleared Duluth, no new information developed.

. . .When the Polish ship Ziemia Onieznienska was unable to depart the Cargill B1 Elevator in Duluth, the tugs Arkansas and Rhode Island were forced to stop pulling. Soundings were taken around the ship and there was only 24 feet of water in some TELESCOPE Page 26

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areas. She had been loaded to 26 feet. When the tug New Jersey arrived, she was pulled free She anchored in the lake for inspection and no damage was found. The Cargill berth has since been dredged out.

Oct. 22. . . The Yugoslavian Danilovgrad went aground near Ogden Island. She loaded 16,700 tons of soybeans at Toledo for Montreal.

Oct. 26. . . The Fort York while under tow of Tusker and Glenada, broke loose and drifted down the St. Clair River. She was returned to her dock at Point Edward. The river was closed to traffic for 18 minutes while she was adrift. She cleared on the 28th for Quebec with the Tusker and Glenada They arrived at Port Colborne on the 31st.

Oct. 28. . . Two McAllister tugs cleared Montreal with P.S. Barge No. 1, bound for the grounded Danilovgrad. She has been aground for six days.

Oct. 29. . .The Roger M. Kyes went aground on shoal south of Pelee Island and went to Bay Shipbuilding for repairs.

Oct. 30. . . The tugs Leonard W. and Duga passed through the St. Lambert Lock to help the Danilovgrad which was freed the next day.

January Entertainment Meeting . . . Capt. Graham Grattan will be our guest speaker on Friday, January 22 at 8:00 p.m. His program on freighter smokestacks will show the many different patterns of stacks that adorned the older ships and the new designs on modem ships. Capt. Grattan was bom and raised at Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and still lives there today with his wife and two children. Ship watching has always been a part of his life. Summers were spent at the family cottage on the St. Marys River watching ships. After graduating from the Marine Navigation program at Brown College in Toronto, he was assigned to the Algocen as a cadet in 1970. He continued sailing for Algoma Central after receiving his mate’s license. In March, 1976 he obtained his master’s license and became captain on the Yank canuck in March, 1977. The ship is one of the smallest lakers today, carrying steel from the Sault to Windsor, Ontario. m ■S g S D great lakes maritime institute DOSSIN ORIAT LAKES MUSEUM BELLE ISLE 3 D e t r o i t . M ic h ig a n 4 3 2 0 7 § 8

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