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Ship of the Month - cont'd. 10. mes Foundry operated until 1988, following which it was shut down and de­ molished. Since the sandpile by the river no longer was needed, Chrysler did a clean-up at the waterfront site. The sand was dug away from her shore side and, commencing during the late summer of 1989, the hull of CHEMBARGE NO. 2 was cut up where it lay. The waterfront area where she had lain for so long was to have been redeveloped, but to this day nothing has been done to that effect. Thus came to an end the life of a canaller that was "different" than most of her ilk. The majority of today's shipping enthusiasts will not have seen her when she was in service, but your Editor did, and recalls her with fondness. * * * Ed. Note: This was a feature that your Editor found fun to write. It also was short enough to fit into the issue that devotes so much space to lay-up listings. Our thanks to Bill Moran and to Capt. Gerry Ouderkirk for their assistance. We are also grateful that the late Jim Kidd kept detailed records of the ac­ tivities of the "Chembarges", and that both he and the late John H. Bascom took so many photos of CASCO when she was in service. They, too, must have found her to be a distinctive canaller which was worthy of attention. For some of the details of the history of the Canada Starch Company and CASCO, we thank John Greenwood, who included the Canada Starch fleet in Volume Se­ ven of The Fleet Histories Series. Interestingly, CASCO was considered sufficiently notable that she was inclu­ ded as one of the vessels featured in the book Floating Equipment, published in 1932, which illustrated ships which had been designed and/or supervised during construction by the firm of Lambert & German, naval architects. * * * * * FLEET HISTORIES - VOLUME NINE The latest publication from Freshwater Press Inc. is Volume Nine of The Fleet Histories Series. It follows the format of giving a detailed corporate history of each fleet, along with the history of each vessel it operated, in­ cluding notes of any relevant accidents. At least one photo of each ship is provided, some being quite rare. John 0. Greenwood is author of the volume. The fleets featured in Volume Nine of the series are those of Papachristidis Shipping Ltd., the Minnesota Steamship Company, the Minnesota-Atlantic Tran­ sit Company, Mathews Steamship Company Limited, Carrollton Steamship Compa­ ny, Eastern Steamship Company Limited, the Eastern and Western Steamship Corporations, the Shell Oil Company, the Interstate Steamship Company (Jones and Laughlin), Waterways Navigation Company, Wolverine Steamship Company, the F. D. Gleason Coal Company and the Kinney Steamship Company and its subsidiaries. Volume Nine, published in hardcover format, 208 pages, sells for $26. 25 U. S. Contact Freshwater Press, Inc., 1700 E. 13th Street, Suite 3 R, Cleveland, Ohio 44114-3213. Phone (216) 241-0373, fax (216) 781-6344, or order online via orders@lakeboats. com * * * * * LAY-UP LISTINGS - WINTER 2002-2003 We now present the first instalment of our comprehensive lay-up report for the current winter. We have covered as many ports as possible with the mate­ rial supplied by our readers, but for some ports we simply have no informa­ tion available. Additional listings and, if necessary, corrections will ap­ pear in our next issue. mailto:orders@lakeboats.com