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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 Published at Detroit, Michigan by the GREAT LAKES MARITIME INSTITUTE ©All rights reserved. Printed in the United States by Macomb Printing Specialties. 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.
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