Meeting October 2, 8-00P.M J.T.WING i last,29, August brought on |which hs atr a aeb boarding, capturewasby made This onn h "irs ran alongside "Tigris"the morning fe ta eggmn sews one shewas engagement that After news tovisitor comesCanada, cent rec- ofPointe,A Murphie, Grosse 0. her, and after a brief hand to hand hand and aafter brief her, iso acmlse te American the accomplished mission oigb aos oad thesep lower provinces.became Canadian They towards canoes by moving lain 135 years.lain of yL.Wrl, ae omne of commander late Lt. by Worsly, ml ot. h "Scorpion"theand The smallboats. rts.Bt vses eand in remained vessels British.Both at the Battle of Put-in-Bay inthe1813.ofPut-in-Bayat Battle eslaoeNaaa te running thenabovevessel Niagara, "Nancy",the lastdestroyto British h a sgtd ad the and sighted,wasshe ossin f h Biih until British the of possession from Island toMackinac supplies into LakeHuron sent fleet theof 3he waterywhere grave hfcsthefrom fired the first and the lastfiredtheshotsfirstand upista mgtrah there by reach might thatsupplies that With River, Nottawasaga the of the "Scorpion". Two days later days Two "Scorpion". insearch the sailedof Lt. Worsly flag, the while bofts small four from the British. to fell "Nancy",the "Tigris", surprisedthe and arated, le dsesd Te "Niagara"go* The dispersed; fleet ihanme o tes Including ofothers. awith number n oMcia Iln o interceptto Island lngto Mackinac raie te avg operations salvage the organized theofofUniversity Ontario Western 1817 "Scorp the of scuffleonthedecks to the surface the skeleton of skeletonthis thesurfacetheto "Tecumseh",theBritish along sunk,were both twonations, the of prize a became she ion" "Tigris" set out to look for furs for tolook out "Tigris"set "Tigris"anchor. layat S SOPO RAISEt SCORPION USS hs s h ae "Scorpion” Issame thewhich,This ihu lwrn te American the lowering Without hog h ides of Mrs.Hames the kindnessThrough ut recentlyJury, Mr. Wilfred Just theraisingofthe U.S.S.Scorpion , when by agreement between theagreement when by between , “TELESCOPE following o. 2 Vol.
G t a e r ■ ELLI IILI IILI ■ ELLI L The "Tecumseh" had been sunksever had been "Tecumseh"The uem t eeagihn, the Penetanguishene, at museum eermvdfo o tp f her. of top on removedfrom were "Tecumseh"remains thetheof until gate receipts greatly exceeded thosereceiptsexceeded gate greatly and wave feetaway, hundredbut al was raised in raised was thoseof one her besides restwill achieved. famousfightingship,littlenotbut ueu f hpigsreo; Mr. surveyor; Shipping of Bureau special aphoto that so much so "Tigris", the which consort, time ul, ee mn te results the among were Guild, important, and more TELESCOPE, the lastforevent. year's showand the visited thousand one ane yM.C Get,a Detroit a Geerts,painted by Mr.C. xiiin uut2-5 15 was 195324-25,exhibition,August scene of this salvageoperation.sceneof ra itrs a son n this in shown interestwasgreat anticipated, As construction.under iceaction moved her.had in every way successful. Well over Well successful. every way in rpe a nae t mk color make to engagedwasgrapher a better understanding by thea understanding public by better oetSue aa Aciet for Architect RobertNaval Soule, fteam n betvs f the of theofaimsandobjectives eto. , section. of models a number was exhibition slides for futureslidesuse. occupiedfittingsoneentire case. model and on kit models interest another wasvery artist, fGos l, eie American retired ofIle, Grosse ing feature, and a complete exhibit andacomplete ingfeature, ______hi ton itio ib xh e es k a h rmis f h "Scorpion" the of remains The h Gids eod annualmodel second Guild's The r Jr s ob cmedd for commended is to Jury Mr.be The displaycolorful, very wasThe e ebr, e sbcies to subscribers new New members, ee eysrkn hart>or scenesverystriking Seven h JudgeswereLincoln The Mr.Charles One of the features of thisfeaturesoftheof year'sOne August M l e d o 1953 S ERI 7 MICHIGAN 7. DETROIT pbui s r e d il u b ip h
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grave:pp exhibition:pp.4 _ success otie the , outside * G No. ld il u 5 8 --- 2 The TELESCOPE ship was built in a wilderness, Published every month by the Great between a freeze and a thaw, so Lakes Model Shipbuilders Guild,Belle every detail not functional, was l3le, Detroit J, Michigan. necessarily eliminated. Unfriendly Joseph 2. Johnston...... Editor Indians were a factor which,very Robert H. Da/ison...... Publisher likely, dictated a change from the Chairman Publicity Committee complicated square Jib and top 15/ per. copy; $1.50 per. year; free gallant jib to a headsail arrange to paid members of G.L.M.S.G, __ ment universally adopted every where, and similar to that of a The Little Ships: modem schooner. Lh GRll-TON Planks and timbers had to be EDITORS NOTE*—This is the first in a whipsawed ir hewn. In the "Griffin" series of articles by Capt'n J.E. they would be heavier and wider. Johnston, curator of Museum of Great _ Much of the iron work, brought all Lake3 History, the marine branch of the way from France, was lost when the Detroit Historical Museum. the small vessel on Ontario was wrecked. Cordage had to take Its "Le Griffon", or the "Griffin", place. Fancy, turned rail stan was built on the east bank of the chions were out of the picture. Niagara River in 1679, by La Salle, Lack of space, and ease of*constr to serve the fur trade. The plans uction, made a log windlass the were tho3e of a Dutch coaster, of logical choice rather than a cap about 1650, according to the re stan of the period. So, step by cords, but there the records stop, step, a logical plan was evolved, so far as anything helpful to the checked, . and double checked, and model builder is concerned. Father finally work on the model was be Hennepin made two sketches, both gun. said to be of the "Griffin", but One model was nearly completed, unfortunately they are of different but it looked too much like it had types of craft, one with a round Griffin: pp.5 s tem and one with an oval transom. To omit the "Griffin" would be NOMINATION OF SEC-TREASURER telling a sttfry without a beginning. With the resignation of Edgar To include her in the continuity Hopusch on August 25» the office of would be like making a skeleton of a Secretary-Treasurer became vacant. dinesaur after finding only one Nominations for filling this vacancy tooth. Still, she was the first to will be received up until September sail the upper Lakes, and into her 30, 1953* Mail yours to Capt.Joseph went the dreams of the greatest of E. Johnston, Belle Isle, Detroit 7» the French pioneers. What was she Michigan, as soon as possible. like, and why was her type chosen? Such matters had to be considered NAUTICAL BOOKS by the model builder, and every Attention is called to the list3 probability weighed and retained; of nautical books., both new and rare every improbability discarded. which are available to Guild members The research went on over a per visItion the museum/ iod of thirteen years. The only Our fellow member, Owen Davies, document found was a list of her of Chicago, publishes a particularly spars, giving the dimensions. This interesting one which is mailed to was found among irrevelant papers the museum at regular Intervals. in French archives, in Paris. The next step was to find a Dutch type A SHE IS A SHE that would use such a rig. The Sometime ago the American Merchant reason why this was never done is Marine Institute asked the question, explained later, but the nearest "Why is a ship called she?" thing to it, in size, as well as Among the answers that were re type, was finally selected. ceived were "Because she needs a The round stem, being the hardest man to handle her"— "Because there's of the two to plank, was discarded not a stright line on 'em, they're in favor of the oval transom. The all curves"--"Because it takes a lot of paint to keep her trim." [ Page 3 1 Tales of the MUSEUM NOTES In the busy weeks around the time 1*0 '{ [ n i'( \ ^ 0 LI *1 '(i T of the Second Annual Model exhibit •J/i J j JJ J J J J J iji J i J J J J ion,— with the changing over,from historical sequence to display by "The Sheriff Captures A Runaway" type and class, then changing back to the former, not much change was Milwaukee:-One of Sheriff Burnham's made in the exhibits in the Museum Deputies now treads the deck of the of Great Lakes History. steamer Huron City, although he The hobby case now holds the "Sea does not sail the raging main to Horse",Captain William Taylor's all- any great extent, for the reason metal, self-propelled, gas-powered that the vessel is in dry dock at tug; Mr. Kenneth L. Fairbank's Ore the Milwaukee shipyard. The Sheriff carrier, which, by the way he has took possession of the steamer on donated to the museum; and a display an attachment filed by Wclf & of current and back numbers of Davidson to secure a claim of The TELESCOPE. $15 ,ll*-9 » and the papers were There was some activity in the served as soon after 12 o'clock museum's harbor on the evening of j last night as the law wpuld allow, August 26, when four members of j Wolf & Davidson also began suit in $hip No. 52, (J. T. Wing), Girl I the circut court against C„ H. Cook Mariners, and two leaders,were given and William Wilson, owners of the a workout under oars in the life Huron City, . to recover the amount boat donated by President Troy H. for which the boat was attached. Browning, of the T„H. Browning S.S. One night in June 1888, the Huron Co. and Mr. Nathan Silverstine. City was secretly run cut of Wolf Work on Captain Johnston's model & Davidson's shipyard, where she of LaSalle's "Griffon", has been had been rebuilt. She left in such halted in order that a working model a hurry that some tools belonging of the Museum's Huron boat could be to the ship carpenters, who were rushed to completion for use in not quite through working on her, connection with her reconditioning were carried off. It did not take for service as a training ship for long for the shipyard owners to Detroit youths. arrive at the conclusion that her There is much good news about commander, Capt. Cassin, had sailed this little ship, long known about the steamer away and was stearing Lake Huron as the HELEN MacLEOD II. clear of the repair bill. Since In an early number of TELESCOPE we that time the Huron City has been will devote considerable space to to Milwaukee only once, and then her past,her present and her future. she came into the harbor at night Through the generosity of Mr.Grant and left before morning. However M.Piggott, President .of the J.T.Wing her luck ran out and she put into Company, money is now available for this port for repairs. As soon as putting this interesting little Wolf & Davidson learned that she schooner into first class cruising was within the jurisdiction of condition. She is in the yard of Milwaukee County they began legal the Interlake Yacht Service at proceedings. The owners of the Trenton, Michigan, where she is steamer line in Michigan City, Ind. being given a complete overhaul. A new engine will be ins tailed POSITION OPEN and every detail will be attended The position of assistant to Capt. to make her a handsome and sea Johnston is now vacant. This is a worthy training ship. She will be City of Detroit civil service job. ready for service early in the Age limits, minimum l8 . Education, summer of 195*+» under a new name. equivalant to graduation from an The first through tow of several accredited high school. Salary sailing vessels was comprised of | $3297.00, starting; $3921.00, top. the schooners '"TYSON", "FILER", Contract Capt. Johnston for all "ROBINSON", And "ELDORADO", behind details. Algood job for a versatile the tug "BISMARK",comrcanded by | craft worker and practical mainte- David M. Cochrane, in 1871. | nance man. Steady year-round work. Page U | Exhii: it ion: — ) Mrs. Anne Boyer, Executive Secre the Groat Lakes Engineering Co., tary of the Detroit Historical Ecorse, Michigan; and Mr. T. J. Mc Society again presented the Guild Carthy, President of the T.J. Mc- with a placque recording the prize Cat/fchy S.S. Co., of Detroit. winners in the several classes. The first two served as judges la3t year. Mr. McCarthy took the ENTRIES AND AWARDS place of Mr. Troy M. Browning, one of last year’s judges who was (Prizes indicated in Roman numerals) not able to participate this year on account..,of out of town business Senior Steam demanding, his attention on the day the show opened. U.S. Destroyer "Farragut" I .Perhaps the biggest factor in a (Arthur G. Henning) long list of those contributing to "Michigan” (1033) Sidewheel Str. II the success of the exhibition was (Robert H. Davison) the contibutdons of jte local news- Models by Robert L. Ruhl: oapers. The Detroit News, Detroit "Bulk Carrier", "Clairmont", "Tramp Times, and the Free Press, all Steamer" ,"Tugboat" , "Lake Frieghter’,’ ! carried pictures that, gave good "Submarine", "Battleship". jadvance publicity, Mr. Ruhl’s models all represent j Another, and an equally import - types rather than specific vessels. j ant factor in the success of the i show was the fine cooperation of Junior Steam ■the T-V people. Faye Elizabeth, on WWJ-TV, and "Onoko", first iron-hull bulk car Bud Lanker, . on WXYZ-TV, gave time rier. I to Captain Johnston, who presented • (Dennis and Curtis Kovak) a model of the schooner "Nancy" of "Walk-in-the-Water", (1818) II 1789; first commercial vessel built (Emmett Priestly) in Detroit, This model, built by "Mississippi River Gunboat", (1863) Emmett Priestly who is now in the (Wilbur J. Osborne) U. S. Army, in Austria, w.on top hon ors in the Junior Class for sailing Senior Sail vessels. On Bud Lanker’s program a model "Sailing Yacht", I of LaSalle’s "Griffon", now under (J. K, Helgesen, Sr.) construction b y Captain Johnston, "Bounty", . II / ' was shown. The Guild, its work, (Arthur G. Henning) and its magazine were discussed "Lucia Simpson", (1872) and ship plans from the TELESCOPE (Dr. 0. H. Siegmund) were shown on the screen. "Hudson River Sloop" The Department of Parks and Re (Dr. 0. H. Siegmund) creations, of the City of Detroit, "Sovereign" through its City Affairs T-V pro (Robert H. Ruhl) gram ran a fifteen-minute film "Lion’s Whelp", (1680) showning the Museum of Great Lake (Arthut G. Henning) History in action just at the best "James F. Joy" time to publicize the exhibition. (Joseph E. Johnston) Station WJBK-TV gave excellent "Detroit River Sand Barge” coverage on the day preceedingthe (A. H. Koepner) opening, and the exhibition was mentioned frequently on local radio Junior Sail programs. : ■ All of the above publicity was ’’Nancy", (1789) I promoted by our angel Miss Mary (Emmett Priestly) Georgilus, who has twice taken "Challenge", (1850) II over for us in the field and done (Emmett Priestly) wonders in getting the show before "Roman Trireme" the public in the tight way and at (Wilbur J. Osborne) the right time. entries:- pp 5 Page 5______t—Grave:— ,------Entries:— his efforts in this project, and it "Cincque Ports Ship" is to be hoped that he will be able (Wilbur J. Osborne) to locate sufficient information to enable interested persons to con "Milton", Scow Schooner, (1882) struct models that will do the ship (Dennis and Curtis Kovak) justice,as has been done the "Nancy" by C.H.J. Snider of Toronto, and his "Roman Galley" associates. (Frank Slyker)
NEW MEMBERS Griffon:— been built in a yard in Europe. It Ernest Anglewicz was set aside and a new one start 8623 Lumpkin, Hamtramck, Mich. ed. It is much more crudely done, but it will better show what a few Gordon P. Bugbee men in a wilderness might have ac 36 Beacon Hill complished with so many odds against Grosse Pointe Farms 36, Mich. them. As the ship neared completion it Buffalo Historical Society became apparent that the Indians Deleware Park, Buffalo 7> N. Y. meant trouble. She was launched as soon as possible, and the job fin Clarence Berg ished afterwards. Then, for months 12191 Yout St., Racine, Wise. the men awaited the coming of La Salle from Quebec. The hot summer Arthur E. Bracy sun beat down on the decks of the l66l4 Huntington Road "Griffin", and the direct, and re Detroit 19, Michigan flected rays, struck her sides from all angles, inevitably causing the John Clements planking to dry out and shrink. 15401 Troester, Detroit 5> Mich. La Salle arrived early in August and set sail up the Lakes; across Owen Davies Lake Erie, through the rivers, and 1214 N. LaSalle, Chicago 10, 111 out onto Lake Huron. They called at St.Ignace, then headed into Lake Elwin M. Eldridge Michigan and Green Bay. P.O. Box 28, Clermont, N. Y. "Somewhere in Green Bay" she load ed a full cargoof firs. The day Walter Gaudette was hot and hazy. We know, today, 7170 N. Outer Drive,Detroit, that presages a storm in those Michigan waters, but the "Griffin" sailed off down the Lakes, ghosting out John Karlson in the almost dead calm, until the 5066 VanDyke, Detroit 13, Mich. haze enveloped her. She was never seen again. Thatnight the storm William J. Krueger broke. What was her end? No one 2809 West Blvd., Racine, Wise. will ever know, but it may be sur mised that the caulking had loosened L. F. Lukowiak up with the shrinking of the plank 1271 Rochester Rd. ing, and she went down in deep water, Royal Oak, Michigan over burdened by the full cargo of furs. Ronald A. LaLonde Had she gone ashore, something 17357 Sherwood, Detroit 35,Mich. would have been left; something so strange to an Indian that he would Francis Lessard have kept it, and eventually It Route 1, Box 96 would have come to the attention Tinley Park, Illinois of some white man. But nothing has ever been found that could be defi Robert A. MacDonald nitely identigied as having come Route L, North East, Penna. from the "Griffin". Members:- pp 7 ______Griffin:- pp8____ Pa r e 6 JKTSON & FLOTSOM OLD Sa ILOKS I am an ancient mariner. Captain Bundy,.of the new steamer I've sailed to the Spanish Main; GLAD TIDING". was iocklhg. for a nlcee I've sailed to the China Sea, lads: j pious engineer.His hopes were rudely aye, there and back again. {shattered on the excursion steamer I've lain hove to in the Zulu Sea, !R. J. GORDON. ... in the teeth of a wild typhoon; hQ thought he had found his ideal and I've watched the pitbh bn 11 in in the second.engineer of that boat. the scams The two were talking over the p3ans 'neath the blaze of a tropic noon. for the Captain-s mission work, The second engineer told what a help he I've watched the ghostly northern could be In the meetings, and It, was lights alKost arranged m a t he was to be play 'cress the arctic sky; come engineer of the GLAD TIDINGS. and crossed the dead Sargcssc Sea, At* this point, however, something where silent lost ships lie. went wrong, and the second engineer, In the moment *s exc itamen t,exprassed And now I sit and look to sea himuelf after the ' manner of some through narrow eyes that know sec,)Isr boats, . It is • IUiA Cap'c ir. the sting of rain before the wind, Bundy's tline out cf the engine-room the bite of driven snow. and onto the dock was excellent. - I see old comrades of the past come up from phantom land; l88d... Lake, navigators are pre Re-acting some old drama dicting chat within a few years iron . • that, we staged ac Mazatlan, shipping will entirely supplant the or Guam, or some forgotten scene vodden hulls that are now prevailing of love and laughter free, oh the great lakes, The Illinois and free-for-alls abo^t seme word, Steam Company has purchased a large or act, of enemy. tract of land adjoining its South Chicago rolling mills and will at And few of them are ever old, once proceed to erect a plant in and none will . ever die: which will be employed 2,000 addit- Old sailors simply sail away • ional men. This new mill will be en to lands beyond the sky. tirely devotedoto the manufacture (J.E. Johnston) of steel plates for vessels. TREASURE MAP It turns out that the visit of the So many inquiries have been Z.G.Simmons to Wolf & Davidson's dry received concerning the treasure dock was necessatated by a mishap map referred to in the July number mure serious than the mere springing of TELESCOFE, we supply the follow of a leak. On her last trip down the ing for interested readers: lake she struck.Bailey's Harbor reef tearing away about fourteen feet of "INSIDE MICHIGAN" keel and breaking several of her bottom planks. a monthly magazine devoted to the enlightuent of citizens of Michigan Capt. Saph, of Marine Gity, re and ether Great Lakes states, on cently began divorce proceedings, public affairs, resources, and but his wife doesn't want to be people. Published by Arthur A. divorced. One day she attempted to ilagnan, 944 Free Press Building, board the Captain's steamer, the Detroit 26 , Michigan. $3,00 per S. S. Clark, but the mate withdrew year. Single copies, 2f»^. July the gang-plank and she fell into 1953 numbers are available. the water. She was rescued, and finally boarded the boat, and de clared she would stay there. The The first sailing vessel above Clark left Marine City in charge Niagara Falls was Le. Salle's "Grif of the mate. Mrs. Saph was aboard, fon", in 16f9 , She was lost without and her husband,who wants a divorce, a trace on her first voyage. was left behind.______Page 7 Members:— 1 Dr. William M. Taylor Carl J. Meyer 1859 Hunt Club Drive 1030 S. First St.Milwaukee, Wise. Grosse Pointe Woods 26, Michigan
Walter Massey J. W. Vanden Bosch Route 1, LaSalle, Ontario 400 Union Commerce Building Cleveland 14, Ohio Allen Mike 18652 Carrie, Detroit 34, Mich. Stewart B. Wilkes Box 6 , Niagara Square Station Michael J. O'Brien Buffalo, N. Y. 7662 Sherwood, Detroit 1 1 , Mich. . The first American warship of iron William Owen using steam was the MICHIGAN, built 2243 S. Hamilton, Saginaw, Mich. at Erie, Pennsylvania, under Act of Congress, 9 September, 1842. She was B. E. Rogers fabricated in Pittsburgh and trans 6l4 Pemberton Rd. ported in parts to Erie where she Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan was completed and launched in 1844. On June 17, 1905. She was renamed Kenneth M. Stemen the WOLVERINE and officially strick 175 McKinley Road en from tne Naval list 12 March, Grosse Pointe Farms 3 6 , Mich. 1927.
Loranz G. Schumm The first vessel built in Chicago 302 C, Street, La Porte, Ind. was the schooner- ‘'Hiram Pierson".
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