TELESCOPE July 1961 Vol. 10 No. 7 This Month’s Issue SONTSNTS

Tt?e Green Fleet by Robert E. Lee...... 123-126 Picture Page I Telescope by Eniory J. Massman, Jr 127 PUBLISHED BY Great Lakes Maritime Institute A Report...... 128 Dossin Great Lakes Museum Report Pictures...... 129 Belle Isle, Detroit 7, Mich. George 0. Young Blue Print- E d ito r WALTER A. STERLING....130-131 Otto Strek Tl?e Big SplasL Assistant Editor by Rev. E.J.Dowling,S.J 132 William A. Hoey Fleet List Advisory Editor by Rev. E.J.Dowling,?.J..133-135 William M. Worden Great Lakes Marine News Gordon P. Bugbee by Robert Radunz...... 136-138 Associate Editors Gurators' Gorner Rev. Edward J. Dowling, S.J. by Robert E. Lee...... 139 Vessel List Editor TELESCOPE

The TELESCOPE magazine is the o fficia l p ublication of the Great Lakes Maritime COVER I n s t itu t e . It was f i r s t published in 1952 as a sheet of announcements and meeting notices. Today it is a full- A proud moment is recorded by size monthly magazine, valued by mem­ bers and non-members a lik e as a source Institute and SSHSA members as the o f Great Lakes d a ta . The TELESCOPE flags of both groups fly from the includes articles of interest to almost everyone, including such subjects as SOUTH AMERICAN. (see story pp.128-9) history, salvage, current news, and model shipbuilding. There are three monthly features, current news section, vessel list of a Great Lakes fleet, and a blue­ p rin t o f a Great Lakes ship.Subscription to TELESCOPE is included in the member­ ship fee. The editors will consider articles of Great Lakes or general marine in te r e st for publication in TELESCOPE. Such material need not be expertly written, but must be of a nature suited to the purposes of the publication. Address any such material to: The Editors, TELESCOPE Great Lakes Maritime Institute Dossin Great Lakes Museum Belle Isle. Detroit 7. Mich. Regular Membership.... $4 annually LO. 7-7441 Contributing Membership..$5 annually Address a ll other correspondence to the Coordinating Director. The ed itors w ill assume no re sp o n sib ility Sustaining Membership...$10 annually for statements trade by the authors. Life Membership...... $100 Supported in part by the Detroit Historical Society Membership by the Calendar Year Single Copies 354 Telescope 123

Of all rare privileges, one of the rarest is to be a guest on a Great Lakes freighter. It is an experience that the fortunate rec­ ipient is not soon to forget.... any more than he'd forget an invit­ ation to Buckingham Palace.... and for the same reason. Freighters are not in the passenger carrying business, and for this reason one does not arrange for such passage. He must be inv­ ited as a guest of the company, and such invitation does not come for the askingl Recently, it was our pleasure to be guests of the Huron Portland Cement Company, on board the Steamer S. T, Crapo, for a round trip between Alpena and Detroit. We learned a great deal about ships and cement. We also got to know the nicest group of people you might ever meet. More of this later. We arrived at the plant gate in Alpena, Michigan at a little past noon, and were immediately taken in tow by Gerald Gilmet of the plant's security force. We indicated that we would like to take pictures of the Crapo coming in to the torturous turning operation required for docking. Mr. Gilmet escorted us to the far side of the slip, an excellent vantage point, and we watched a masterful per­ formance of ship handling. This done, we were taken to the ship and put aboard. We met Capt. James Burke who showed us to stateroom #2, and excused himself for the pressure of business. We settled down to mull over the good fortune of being where we were...but the time to mull was not long. Almost before the ship had been made fast....or so it seemed....a pair of large hoses were being connected at the deck. A set of arms were being lowered from the side wall of the silos, spaced so as to conform to the ship's hatches. Finally, when these had been lowered to a horizontal position, telescopic funnels were attached at four positions to the underside of these "arms". The arms were screw conveyors which push the bulk cement from the silo outboard, where it passes over, and falls through openings to which the telescopes have been hung. Thus the cement falls through the telescopes, and is delivered to the hatches on deck. It was here that we were given our first lesson in cement hand­ ling. Cement won't "go" anywhere. It has to be pushed, pumped, or blown. We were witnessing two of these processes in operation at the same time. It was being pushed outboard by a stoker-type screw in the conveyors, and at the same time being pumped and forced by compressed air through the hoses that had been attached to the two fittings on deck. Seven of these conveyors, each equipped with four telescopic fun­ nels; a total of twenty-eight hatches were being fed at one time. Even so, loading took better than six hours. 124 Telescope

First Mate Berg took us to dinner at five o'clock, and after we had been served what was easily the finest tenderloin we've ever eaten, we were joined by Captain Burke, The loading was going well, and he was now able to relax. We then learned something that we had not known all the while we watched the loading. This was really an historic trip, for it was the last time a ship would be loaded with the equipment we had seen. Great new silos have been built, and in them have been installed a greatly improved method of loading which will cut the time to about three hours. Instead of all the cumber­ some set of conveyors, which we saw feeding into twenty-eight hatch openings, the new method would load with a single line of fourteen hatches down the center of the deck. The laborious turn would be no longer necessary in docking. It is a wonderful improvement, but we can't help being pleased for having seen the way it has been done for so many years. We left Alpena at a little after 8 PM, stood on the foredeck, and watched 4,769 tons of ship eased through a slit in a limestone bot­ tomed harbor with less than thirty feet of space over the vessel width. Steered all the way through this mile and a half cut with the wheelsman looking aft....eyes glued to range lights at the dep­ arting dock....this is mean and tricky navigation. This trip was not, in the strict sense, a vacation. We had a very serious purpose in making the voyage, yet for the ensuing night and day we learned the real meaning of rest. No telephones. No callers. No responsibilities! No traffic to fight. Oh why did the passenger boat disappear? Why must everyone be in such a hurry? Next day at 3:10 we glided by the Dossin Museum. The Huron Flag was flying at the Museum's mast-head. The Captain blew a formal salute which was answered by Bill King dipping their flag. We were impressed with this exchange, and we were also impressed with the lung power of Institute President, Captain Cowles who yelled out a greeting that we heard clearly across the river! At 3:20....five minutes beyond the ETA, we arrived at the Huron Dock in Detroit. Here we were to see the seIf-unloader at work. A conveyor is rolled out over the port side and into the silo. Once again, similar but different hoses are connected. These will pump out cement while the conveyor unloads independently. In the hull on the Crapo there are a series Of screws in the hold, moving cargo to a forward lift which carries it aloft to deposit it in to the screw conveyor which moves it outboard into the plant. Here the equipment in the silo takes over. Unloading took fourteen hours. The Huron "Green Fleet" as it is known today dates back to 1915, before which time, shipments from Alpena were handled by package freighters. Cement was shipped in cloth sacks, and a great deal of time and strength went into the process. In 1915 an idea of S. T. Crapo revolutionized the method of ship­ ping cement; carry it in bulk, instead of sacks! This idea sparked the purchase of the steamer SAMUEL MITCHELL, the first ship of the Green Fleet. The MITCHELL was^reconstructed into a self unloader in 1916, and cleared Marine City, the site of her reconstruction, heading for lpena to pick up the first shipload of cement ever carried bulk. The MITCHELL has served the Huron Fleet faithfully ever since, except for a period during World War II when, in war service,she carried sugar, coal, gypsum, and other commodities between Atlantic ports, from Nova Scotia to the West Indies. She was returned to the Huron Fleet in 1948, and again converted to a self unloader, this Telescope 125 time using the revolutionary Airsliae conveying system developed by Huron at Alpena. On September 6, 1923, the steamer JOHN W. BOARDMAN was launched at Toledo Shipbuilding Company. This vessel, built for Huron for the sole purpose of carrying cement, had twice the capacity of the MITCHELL, and benefitted from the improvements brought about by the MITCHELL's seven years service. On November 28, 1923, she took her first cargo, which was also the first cement put into the newly completed Milwaukee plant. The third ship to join the fleet was the steamer S. T. CRAPO. She was christened July 7, 1927, at the Great Lakes Engineering works in Ecorse, Michigan. She too, was built for Huron, and was named Stanford T. Crapo, a founder of the company who served as its Sec­ retary until his death in 1939. The CRAPO has been the flagship of the fleet ever since she hit the water, and this serviceable ship has many times opened the sea­ son on the Great Lakes. The only motor vessel in the fleet was formerly a west coast package freighter, originally named HICKORY COLL. Her sale by the U.S. Maritime Commission to private interests brought her first re­ name; COSTAL DELEGATE. In 1951, when only six years old, she was purchased by Huron, and in the following year was converted to a self unloading cement carrier. On April 30, 1958, she was renamed PAUL H. TOWNSEND, honoring the then newly elected president and treasurer of the company. Also in 1958, she was cut in two and 108 feet added to her midsection, and her pilot house moved forward. A propeller from the TOWNSEND has been given to the Dossin Museum by the Huron Cement Company. Now imbedded in cement, it is promin­ ently displayed on the lawn, a most attractive and interesting item of exhibit. On July 6, Mr. Paul H. Townsend honored the museum by personally imbedding the bronze plaque which designates the gift of the company. The E. M. FORD was formerly the PRESGUE ISLE, a bulk ore carrier in the Cleveland Cliffs Fleet. In 1955, she was purchased by Huron and converted for cement at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. On July 24, 1956 she was christened E. M. FORD at the Bob-Lo dock in Detroit... less than a city block from the spot where Cadillac landed to establish Detroit 255 years earlier, to the exact day. The J. B. FORD was also a rename, having formerly been the E. C. COLLINS. Also an ore carrier, she was converted at Sturgeon Bay in 1959. This was not her first rename, for she left the ways at the American Shipbuilding Company in 1904 as the EDWIN F. HOLMES. She was owned by Acme Transit, Pittsburgh Steamship, and Kinsman Tran­ sit before Huron purchased her. Newest aquisition of the fleet is the former AMOCO, a tanker of the American Oil Company fleet. Built at Chester, Pa., in 1936, her present gross tonnage is 9,927. Her length, 486.3 ft, will make her the largest ship in the fleet when she has been converted. Already renamed, she is carried on the company roster as the H. R. SCHEMM. Her offical number is 235570. So much for the fleet. As for the people behind this operation, we said at the beginning we learned to know the nicest group of folks you might ever meet. That comes close to understatement. 126 Telescope

Bear in mind that these people are not in business to entertain passengers. They are engaged in a serious^business of moving ton­ nage across miles of water so that an efficient distribution system might function uninterrupted. And yet, everyone we encountered, be he oiler or executive, treated us with warm friendship. Captain Burke...now a member of the Institute...was especially nice. He has not passed the museum once since without a salute. We are warmed to know a friend is going by. We hope he and his crew will know they are passing friends ashore; friends who wish they were out there again, passing the ships, instead of watching the ships pass.

ABOVE LEFT: The S, T. CRAPO makes the tight turn on arriv­ ing, and docks heading out. This turn is no longer necessary now that the new loading facilities (background) are in use. RIGHT ABOVE: Looking aft over the deck as the loading con­ veyors are lowered into position. Photos by author.

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The PAUL H. TOWNSEND, looking much different after conver­ sion to a cement carrier, lengthening, and general re-orien­ tation. It is the propeller of this ship which is now bedded in cement and displayed on the lawn of Dossin Museum. Photo: Huron Cement Telescope 127

The Picture Page - by - EMORY A. MASSMAN, JR.

CITY OP ERIE (US. 1272l|2). built at Wyandotte, 1898by Detroit Dry­ dock Co., as Hull No. 126, 316 x 44 x 18; Gross 2498, net 1280. Passenger and freight sidewheeler built of steel. Engines beam 54, 80 x 144 stroke,built by Fletcher, Hoboken. Was owned by Cleveland and Buffalo Transit Co. Scrapped at Cleveland, 8/'4l by Otis Steel Co.

CLIFFS VICTORY (b) NOTRE DAME VICTORY (a) US#24?522 originally 4 3 6 *6n-6 2 *-3 8 ’ later lengthened and brought to the lakes with the dimensions of 6 01*-6 2 ,-3 8 *, lengthened again on the lakes to 714*“ 62»-38». Built by Oregon S.B. Corp. in 1945, Hull # 1229. Her engine is a 9350 SHP Steam Turbine built by Joshua Hendy Iron Works. She has 2 B&W Boilers. Owners (1) U. S. Govt. (2) Cleveland Cliffs S.S. Company. 128 Telescope

TO: The membership FROM: Joint Meeting; SSHSA - Institute Committee

The meetings officially opened at 1:00 P. M. on Sunday May 28th., when the steamer SOUTH AMERICAN departed from Detroit for Port Hur­ on. On board were 150 passengers for the Port Huron trip, under the joint Sponsorship of the Institute and Steamship Historical Society of America. Mr. Milford Boersma, who had the vessel under charter, supplied the committee with parlor "Illinois", which was used as headquarters for registration. A most enjoyable daylight cruise through Lake StClair and the Flats was had, and then, at 5:00 PM, we were called to the dining room for a delicious dinner. The meal was finished in time to watch the docking at Port Huron. Waiting on the dock were three chartered busses which took the group back to Detroit via the river road. On Monday, May 29th, forty-three enthusiasts boarded the Bob-Lo steamer COLUMBIA for thelO O'clock sailing. The boat arrived at the island at 11:30. Time on the island was spent watching river traffic, exploring the island, or amusement rides for those who wished them. The COLUMBIA departed at 4:00 PM and arrived back at Detroit at 5:30. That evening seventy-one people assembled in the Sky Room at the Pick-Fort Shelby for the dinner meeting. Following a delicious din­ ner, the speaker of the evening, Mr. Alan Howard, was introduced. Mr. Howard, former Managing Director of the Cayuga Steamship Co., and presently Curator of the Marine Museum of Upper Canada, at Tor» onto, spoke on a subject he had intimately known; the service from Toronto to the Niagara River. After the talk, Mr. William Worden presented, in behalf of the Institute, an 11" x 14" enlargement of a color slide by Gordon P. Bugbee showing the CAYUGA turning about in the Niagara River. Tuesday, May 30th., thirty people boarded the chartered coach at tne hotel for a trip to the Dossin Museum, the Henry Ford Museum, and Greenfield Village. The bus left Dossin Museum at 11:30, after viewing the exhibits, and arrived at Greenfield Village at 12:30. The group was left to its own devices until 2:00 o'clock when it met at the marine motive power section, where Mr. Dave Glick of the staff operated a set of sternwheel engines connected to compressed air* Unfortunately, two other engines connected to air were not in wording order, but this was more than made up for in a twice—around the lagoon ride in the tiny (seventy foot) SUWANEE. Both the SSHSA and Institute house flags flew from the COLUMBIA, SOUTH AMERICAN, and SUWANEE. On the SOUTH, and the COLUMBIA they made an impressive display. On the little SUWANEE, however, things were a little silly. With a tendency to be top-heavy anyway, the little steamboat must have been doubly so with all that cloth up ther®‘ was haPPy that tha helmsman knew the lagoon, as it was doubtful how much lagoon he saw in relation to how much flag he saw. 3 The meetings were, in retrospect, a great success, certainly the most ambitious^ and successful undertaking the Institute has ever at empted. Neither the Institute nor SSHSA suffered any financial loss, which is unusual for a meeting of this sort. It was indeed an effort of which both SSHSA and the Institute can be justly proud. Telescope 129

THE SUWANEE, under burden of the Ins­ titute and SSHSA house flags. Hoey photo

LEFT ABOVE: Port side engine of stern-wheel SUWANEE. At RIGHT: her wood fired boiler. Both were beloved features for visitors at the Joint Meeting. Photos by George 0. Young

The COLUMBIA flying Institute and SSHSA flags Photo by Gordon Bugbee 130 Telescope Telescope 131

S. S. WALTER A. STERLING

The S. S. WALTER A. STERLING is the product of four shipyards; one in Baltimore, another in Hamburg, Germany, and the Toledo and Lorain yards of the American Ship Building Co. The bow and stern were formerly the ends of the tanker CHIWAWA; The Midbody was built in Hamburg. The S. S. CHIWAWA, a T3-S-A1 Tanker was built by Bethlehem at Sparrows Point Yard in 1942. She was 501' 7-3/4" x 68' x 37'. Total Dwt was 16, 530 L.T. The midbody was Hull number 554 of W. H. Schlieker Shipyard, Hamburg; Built 1960. 510'-9" x 75' x 39'. It was launched August 20,1960 and left Germany September 21, 1960. Arrived Lorain, November 16, 1960. The resulting WALTER A. STERLING is 730' x 75* x 39'. She was recons­ tructed and converted at American Ship in 1961, and christened on May 18 1961. Drawings and information courtesy of Cleveland Cliffs Steamship Co. t6-6

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Launch of the CITY OP GRAND RAPIDS at Cleveland, 1912 Photo, Courtesy William A, McDonald

THE BIG SPLASH

CITY OP GRAND RAPIDS (TJS.210065) was a fast passenger and freight steamer, built by American Shipbuilding Company at Cleveland in 1912 for the Graham and Morton Transportation Company of Chicago, for the cross Lake Michigan express passenger and fruit line. She was her builders* Hull N o . D i m e n s i o n s 291 x 1^8 x 27; 3061 gross tons and 1572 net tons. Single screw driven by a four cylinder triple expansion engine of 26 , ij.2 1*, 5 1 ” and 51" diameter of cy­ linders by lj.2” stroke, built by American Shipbuilding Company. When the G.&M. Line went out of business in 1924, CITY OP GRAND RAPIDS passed into Goodrich Transit Company and remained there until 1933 when Goodrich too, passed out. Subsequently, the vessel sailed in the Chicago and Milwaukee Steamship Company and the Cleveland and Buffalo Transportation Company of Illinois. After some years of inactivity, she was towed to Hamilton,Ontario, in 1952 and scrapped there in 1953* Our photo below (by the author) shows her coming up the river at Milwaukee in the Forties. Telescope 133

The AMAZON Young Photo U.S. MARITIME COMMISSION Freighter Replacement Program Part II The list which follows describes the 36 obsolete freighters which were turned over to the U.S. Maritime Commission by their respec­ tive owners in partial payment far the new vessels. They continued to operate through World War II, and in some instances for several years thereafter. AMAZON (US.30089), Pioneer Steamship Company. Built 1897 at Chicago for J.&J. Corrigan as a barge, 2?6 x 46 x 2 3 . Re­ ceived engines from ITALIA in 1908. Operated after the war by Sullivan and Browning. Scrapped at Lackawanna, N. Y., c.1954. CLARENCE A. BLACK (US.127300), Pittsburgh Steamship Company. Bu TR in 1898 at Lorain for Northern Lakes S. S. Company, ^13 x 50 x 25. Scrapped at Hamilton, Ontario, 194»,

CADILLAC (ex STEEL KING, US.117134), Cleveland-Cliffs Steamship Company.Built in 1902 at Lorain for Gilchrist Transportation Company, 380 x 50 x 28. Renamed CHACORNAC, 1943-Scrapped at Buffalo, 195>6. CETUS (ex SAMCJEL H.SQUIRE, ex CETUS,ex HENRY S. SILL, US.200371+), Inter lake Steamship Company. Built in 1903 at Superior for Gilchrist Transportation Company, 1+16 x >0 x 25. Scrapped, Hamilton, 191+7 • COLONEL (US.127553), Cleveland-Cliffs. S.S. Company. Built in — 1301 at Wyandotte, Michigan, for M. McMillan, Detroit. Later sailed in Richardson and Columbia fleets, 35° x 50 x 2 4 . Scrapped at Buffalo in mid-l50s. S.B. COOLIDGE (ex AUSTRALIA, US.30091+), Pioneer S.S. Company. BuiTk'"TF97 at Chicago as a barge for J.&J. Corrigan, 376 x 48 x 23. Received engines from burned AURORA in 1902. Scrapped, 1948, at Lackawanna, N.Y. During the war was operated by Sullivan. CORVUS (ex J.L. WEEKS, US.200479), Interlace Steamship Company, Built, 1903, at W. Bay City for Gilchrist Transportation Company, 418 x 50 x 24* Scrapped at Hamilton, 1950. 134 Telescope

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The CYGNUS Young Photo Dossin Museum Collection

CYGNUS (ex JOSEPH C. GILCHRIST, US.2001+11+), Inter lake Steamship ^Tomp any. Built in 1903 at Lorain for Gilchrist Transportation Company, 1+16 x 50 x 21+. Scrapped at Hamilton, 191+9.

ROBERT FULTON (US.111129), Pittsburgh Steamship Company. Built in lb96 at Wyandotte for Bessemer S.S. Company, 1+21+ x 1+5 x 21+. Scrapped at Hamilton, 191+6.

LEHIGH (ex WILLIAM A.ROGERS, US.202311),Bethlehem Transportation (Torp. Built in 1905 at Lorain for Mills fleet, 525 x 55 x 31. Renamed JOHNSTOWN, 191+3. Scrapped at Hamilton, 1950.

GEORGE B. LEONARD (US.8667I), Great Lakes Steamship Company.Built 1903 at Chicago for United States Transit Company, 380 x 50 x 2l+. Scrapped at Hamilton, 191+8.

ALEXANDER MCDOUGALL (US.107372), Buckeve Steamship Company. Built " at Inf. Superior, Wisconsin, 1898, for Bessemer Steamship Company, 1+13 x 50 x 22. Semi-whaleback or "Straightback design. Scrapped at Hamilton, 191+7*

MARIPOSA (US.921+1+8), Buckeye Steamship Company. Built in 1892 at Cleveland for Minnesota Steamship Company, 330 x 1+5 x 20. Scrapped at Hamilton, 191+7.

MARITANA (US.921+59), Buckeye Steamship Company. Built in 1892 at Chicago for Minneosta Steamship Company, 330 x 1+5 x 20. Scrapped at Hamilton, 191+7.

PENTECOST MITCHELL (ex H.B. HAWGOOD, US.96663), Pittsburgh Steam­ ship Company. Built in 1903 at Lorain for W.A. & A. H. Hawgood, l+l4 x 50 x 28. Scrapped at Hamilton, 191+8.

MUNISING (ex F. M. OSBORNE, US.121218), Cleveland-Cliffs S. S. Company.Built in 1902 at Lorain for Gilchrist Transportation Company, 380 x 50 x 28. Scrapped at Buffalo, 1955. Telescope 135

The old RICHARD J. REISS at Soo, 1923 Author’s Photo

NEGAUNEE (ex E.N. SAUNDERS, US.136976), Cleveland-Cliffs S.S. Company.Built in 1902 at Lorain for Gilchrist Transportation Company, 380 x 50 x 28. Scrapped at Buffalo, 1955. WILLIAM NOTTINGHAM (US.81804), Great Lakes Steamship Company. Built in 1902 at Buffalo for United States Transit Company, 376 x 50 x 29. Scrapped at Hamilton, 1947. A.W. OSBORNE (ex ANDREW CARNEGIE, US.107267), Wilson Transit Company. Built, 1897, Cleveland for Wilson, 403 x 2+8 x 22+. Scrapped at Hamilton, 1947. PEGASUS (ex WILLIAM H. GRATWICK, US.81801), Inter lake Steamship Company. Built in 1902 at Cleveland for the Mitchell fleet, 416 x 50 x 28. Scrapped at Hamilton, 1948. QUEEN CITY (US.20612), Pittsburgh Steamship Company. Built in 1696 at Cleveland for Zenith Transit Company, if01 x If8 x 2if. Scrapped at Hamilton, 19if7. RICHARD J. REISS (ex GEORGE W. PEAVEY, US.86582), Reiss Steamship Company. Built, 1901, Cleveland for Peavey S.S. Company, if30 x 50 x 28. Renamed'SUPERIOR, 1943. Scrapped at Hamilton, 1948. RENSSALAER (US.111302), Pittsburgh Steamship Company. Built in 1900" at Cleveland for the first‘Pittsburgh Steamship Company (of Andrew Carnegie), 454 x £0 x 28. Scrapped at Hamilton, 1947. SATURN (ex WALTER SCRANTON,US.81743),Inter lake Steamship Company. Built in 1901 at Cleveland for the Mitchell fleet, 1+16 x 50 x 28. Scrapped at Hamilton, 1947. SAUCON (ex J. LEONARD REPL0G3E, ex CHARLES WESTON, US.203184), Bethlehem Transportation Corp. Built in 1906 at W. Bay City for the Mills fleet, 549 x 56 x 27. Scrapped at Hamilton, 1950. (to be continued) 336 Telescope Great Lakes Marine News Edited by Robert Radunz

Contributors Edwin Sprengeler, Milwaukee Richard J. Wright, Akron George Ayoub, Ottawa James M. Kidd, Toronto

May 1 The M.V. MAKEFJELL of Oslo, first ocean vessel to arrive at the Port of Sarnia, is towed to Detroit after developing mechanical trouble. Davie Shipyards of Lauzon, Quebec, have been awarded contracts to join the stern and bow sections of two lake freighters now under construction at Canadian Vickers in Montreal. The first vessel is the 730* J.N. MCWATTERS for Scott Misener SS Ltd. The two sections will be towed from Montreal to Lauzon for the joining which is ex­ pected to be completed by the end of May. The second vessel is being built for the Papachristidis Shipping Company of Montreal. The 510* stern section is being built at Montreal and the bow section at Lauzon, where the two sections will be joined. May 2 The EMPRESS OF CANADA docked at Montreal on her maiden voyage from Liverpool. The 27,300 ton flagship of the Canadian Pacific SS Co. is the largest passenger vessel to enter the port. May 3 The I4.5 1 tugboat BERT VERGE sank in Hamilton Bay while towing FORESTDALE to the Steel Company of Canada for scrapping. A gust of wind caught the FORESTDALE broadside and as it swerved it dragged the 30 ton craft under. Three men were drowned. Winter navigation in the lower St, Lawrence River and the Gulf reached a record volume this past winter despite some of the severest ice conditions ever reported. Nearly four times more cargoes, chiefly newsprint and aluminum were carried than the previous high in 1959-60. May 8 The new 730’ ore carrier EDWARD RYERSON, flagship of the Inland Steel Company, tied up at the Sault Locks for inspection, after scraping bottom at Pt. Iroquois, in the upper St. Mary’s River. There was no damage. May 23 Alan Howard, formerly General-Manager of Cayuga SS Company, has been appointed curator of the Marine Museum of Upper Canada in Toronto. New ore carrier WALTER A. STERLING was christened today. The 730’ super freighter was converted from the former Cities Service tanker CHIWAWA, with bow and stern sections joined to a new mid-section built in Hamburg, Germany. Construction of the jumbo-ized vessel started in the Toledo yards of the American Shipbuilding Company and later transferred to the Lorain yard. May 2l| The largest heavy-lift crane on the Seaway with a capacity of 2£0- 300 tons will be built for the new overseas terminal in the port of Montreal. The project will transform the old turning basin and dis­ posal area into a modern dock. June 1 Milwaukee Harbor Commission approves the recommendation of their Port Director that the high bidder on a lease to operate one of two cargo terminals being completed on new south pier 2 on Jones Island should get its choice of terminals. Telescope 137

The Maritime Administration authorized American ship lines to begin experimental subsidized service between Great Lakes ports and most of the world. Lines now serving eight subsidized foreign trade routes could extend their service to the Great Lakes on a sub­ sidized basis. The Administration said the authority would be for a developmental period of four years. Milwaukee Port Director Harry Brockel states, "This is one of the real shots in the arm for the Seaway. It has been doing well, but it could do better".

June 7 What is believed to be the first Swiss ship to call at Detroit, the CASTAGNOLA entered the port light and loaded general cargo. Eight Canadian Navy minesweepers are cruising the Great Lakes as part of an extensive summer training program for reservists. They are sailing from Halifax, N.S. to various Lakes ports. Republic Steel Corp. announces plans to bring Chilean open-hearth ore direct to its Cleveland plants through the St. Lawrence Seaway. Previously,Republic had used the more expensive process of shipping to Baltimore and then shipping inland by rail. One hundred cases - 20,000 pounds - of a special kind of pure honey arrives in Detroit from Greece and is tfc© first direct import of Greek honey to the port. Lake Superior iron ore shipments to the lower lakes have decreased by 12,701,118 gross tons this year. June 9 Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Association asked Congress to approve $24,6^0 ,000 for navigation and harbor improvement projects in the Great Lakes area. More than $19,000,000 of the total request would be to continue deepening and improving the Great Lakes connecting channels to match depths of the St. Lawrence Seaway. Army Engineers have estimated that the channels would be usable to Seaway depths by June 1962, at the present work rate. Interpreter-translator services and an expanded program of social activities will be provided for foreign sailors in Milwaukee by the International Institute. It is estimated that 10,500 seamen from foreign ships would be in Milwaukee this year. June 11 In the first five weeks of the 1961 overseas shipping season, the port of Milwaukee handled 98,529 tons of scrap metals; 33,344 tons of general cargo; 9,912 tons of grain; and 2,549 tons of heavy lift cargo. The port is running ahead of anticipated overseas commerce expectations. June 14 Port of Monroe will become the port of entry for all French-built Renault cars bound for nine midwestern states. The port is expected to unload 10,000 cars a year. June 19 More grain will move out of the port of Milwaukee this week for overseas destinations than was shipped from the port all last year. The CONTINENTAL CARRIER loads 9,000 tons of corn for ports in Spain. Then the Swedish owned ship AURIVAARA will load 10,000 tons of c o m June 20 Mayor Miriani of Detroit calls for support to urge the movement of the American headquarters of the St. Lawrence Seaway to Detroit from Massena, New York. "We have commerce, effectiveness, beauty, 138 Telescope

and Industry, and we should be the Seaway headquarters" Miriani said. He spoke at Detroit Marine Terminals, on the Rouge River, which opened new cargo terminal offices and said its export of scrap metal to foreign countries is adding $2,000,000 a month to the Detroit-area economy.

June 21 Ninth United States Coast Guard District headquarters in Cleveland announces that on the night of June 16 an explosion of propane and gasoline wrecked Stannard Rock lighthouse in Lake Superior. One of four men in the crew at the light— described by the Coast Guard as the "loneliest lighthouse in the world" is missing, and another was injured seriously. The other two were unhurt. The blast cut communications from the lighthouse and not until midnight Tuesday- more than I48 hours after the explosion— did help arrive. The cutter WOODRUSH, patrolling in the Duluth area, went there to investigate because the light was out. Pittsburgh Steamship division reports that it will outfit three more vessels, WILLIAM P. PALMER, EUGENE J. BUFFINGTON, and HENRY H. ROGERS. Captain Morgan Howell is reappointed master of the AQUARAMA along with Chief Engineer Richard Stetson. June 22 Lake Carriers Association has closed their hiring halls in Milwau­ kee, Detroit, and Ashtabula. Other halls that will continue to operate will be in Duluth, Toledo, Cleveland, Chicago, and Buffalo. With fewer sailings shipping firms have a backlog of laid off sailors and do not need new men. June 23 The Detroit District of the Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a $1,898,000 dredging contract to Dunbar & Sullivan Dredging Company of Detroit. The contract calls for dredging the channel between Mackinac Island and Round Island in the Straits of Mackinac to a depth of 30’. The project area is located about seven miles north­ east of Mackinaw City, Michigan, in relatively open water. The channel, which now has a depth of 2 7 », will remain open to all ves­ sel traffic during the construction period. Dunbar & Sullivan nine cubic yard Dipper Dredge OMADHAUN will remove the material, con­ sisting of sand, clay, gravel, and rock, from the channel. The ex­ cavated material will be dumped in specially designated area away from navigation channels. Work under this contract, a part of the Corps' multi-million dollar Great Lakes Connecting Channels Project is expected to begin late next month with completion anticipated by June 1962. June 28 Fifty-four year old freighter MICHAEL GALLAGHER is about to leave Detroit, loaded with scrap metal, headed for a scrap furnace in Italy. A world safety milestone for cargo ships and tankers was passed last week by the three freighters of the Ford Motor Company. They have passed 1,000,000 man hours without a lost time accident. Special safety flags will be flown this season. Members,Edward Andrews and Robert Raduns of the GLMI, after leaving the GLMI meeting at 9:30 p.m. were watching the AQUARAMA pass the oast Guard utation at the head of Helle Isle, when a large bow and stern wave from the ship hit the shore. Said memhei's took off like a big bird for their oar, followed by a large volume of water,other watchers, and several Tlsh from the River that came along for the ^ members escaped wet Teet by a hatr as the water rushed out into the road causing a small flood. A model which is unquestionably one of the finest examples of the art, and without doubt the best detailed Great Lakes passenger mod­ el ever produced, was placed in the Museum in mid June. This is the well known cut-away model of the GREATER DETROIT. The starboard side of the vessel has been cut away amidships, re­ vealing the Grand Saloon, the Foyer, soda fountain, dining room and staterooms. Further cutaway reveals the details of the inclined en­ gines, boilers, and feathering paddlewheels. It is complete to the very last tiny detail, including the pattern of the carpets and the paintings on the ceiling of the Saloon. Those who remember these fine D. & C. sidewheelers... and who does not...will feel a touch of nostalgia, seeing reproduced in miniat­ ure, and in absolutely faithful scale, each detail they remember of those fine ships. It is a model that must be seen to be appreciated properly. It was made available to us through the University of Michigan on loan. At the same time, and from the same source, we have obtained a model of the J. DAVIDSON, last freighter built at Wyandotte. This model needed some refurbishing and we are grateful to Ken Fairbanks for spending the necessary time in restoring it to perfection. We mentioned, earlier that the pen and ink drawings of Great Lakes ships by Samuel Ward Stanton would be on exhibit. They are herel We have a fine selection of 45 of these original drawings, some of which were produced for the Columbian Exposition, and others for Mr. Stanton's book, "American Steam Vessels". Mr. Stanton early realized that the fine old vessels were passing from the picture and could well be lost forever unless an effort was made to pres­ erve them in some form. This realization is not unique, even today. But Mr. Stanton was indeed unique, possessing the skill to record the lines and flavour of these wonderful ships, and pass the record down. How well he did this, is best appreciated by seeing his drawings. Both freight and passenger ships are represented, and both propeller and side wheel. The Dossin Museum is indebted to three surviving members of their family; Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson, Mrs. Grace W. Azevedo, and Mr. S. Ward Stanton, Jr., whose cooperation and generosity have made this special showing possible. While the Dossin Museum is showing Stanton's Great Lakes drawings a similar showing of his Atlantic coast and river steamers is being held at the Museum of the City of New York. Several house flags have been added to the Museum's collection in the past weeks. Among these are U.S. Corps of Engineers, U.S. Coast Guard, Bob-Lo Line, and T. J. McCarthy Steamship Company. As this goes to press, we approach the first full year of operat­ ion. It has been a good year, and we thank all of you who assisted in many ways to make it so. Telescope

GREAT LAKES MARITIME INSTITUTE. INC. The Great Lakes Maritime Institute* was organized in 1952 as the Great Lakes Model Shipbuilders' Guild. Its primary purpose at that time was the promotion of the building of models of Great Lakes vessels. Since then the organizations scope of interest has been widened considerably, and the monthly publication TSLSSCOPS includes articles on History, Salvage, Current Hews, and Model Building as well. The building of models remain one of the main Projects of the Institute, and the organ­ ization has created the largest collection of Great Lakes scale models. The office of the Institute is located at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Belle Isle, Detroit 7, Michigan. The Institute is incorporated as an organization for no profit under the laws ojf the State of Michigan. Ho member receives any remuneration for services rendered . Donations to the Institute have been ruled deductible by the Internal Revenue Service. OFFICERS

Capt. William J. Cowles Robert E. Lee President Coordinating Director

Robert L. Ruhl Emory A. Massman, Jr. Vice-President Recording Secretary

William N. Stevens Treasurer

DIRECTORS *Terms expire Jan. 1962 ♦Terms expire Jan. 1963 Donald V. Baut Capt. Frank Becker John A. Bruehl Henry D. Brown Kenneth L. Fairbanks Robert H. Davison Fred Heath Howard J. Schuldt, Jr. William A. Hoey Otto Strek William M. Worden George 0. Young

MEETING NOTICE AND CORRECTION It was reported last month that there would be no meetings through the summer. This is incorrectl The JULY meeting will be on board the 6:00 P. M. Bob-Lo Boat, THURSDAY July 27, 1961. The AUGUST meeting w ill be held the last THURSDAY of the month, THURSDAY, AUGUST 31st at the Dossin Museum, at 7:30 P. M.

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