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Ship of the Month - cont'd. Shane o f f e r e d the entire Gilc hrist fleet for sale. The thirty -thre e s t e e l hu lle d G i l ch ri st boats were di vided up into ten "fleets", each repr e s e n t i n g a di ffe ren t "class" or size of ship, and offers were sol i c i t e d for each of these "fleets". We have pr inted this listing on an earlier occasion, but we think that it is so very i n t e r e s t i n g that we do so again here to show how the va rio us ve ssels fell into the various classes. Shown is the name of each ship, to get her with her length and carrying capacity. Fleet No. 1 416 ft. 416 416 416 416 416 416 416 7, 000 7, 000 7, 000 7, 000 7, 000 7, 000 7, 000 7, 000 Fleet No. JUPITER MARS NE PTUNE SATURN URANUS VENUS Fleet No. F RAN K F. M. E. N. STEEL C. W. 8 380 380 380 380 380 6 , 500 6, 500 6 , 500 6 , 500 6 , 500 7 346 ft. 346 346 346 346 346 5 , 500 5 , 500 5 , 500 5 , 500 5 , 500 5 , 500 F RAN K W. G I L C H R I S T J O S E P H C. G I L C H R I S T R. L. IR ELA ND R. E. SC HUC K H E N R Y S. SILL P ERR Y G. WALKER J. L. WEEKS LEWIS W O O D R U F F Fleet No. 2 F RA NK J. HE C K E R G EO RG E H. RU SSE L Fleet No. 3 464 464 8 , 000 8 , 000 W. HART OSBORNE SAUNDERS KING WA TSON 9 JOHN SHERWIN JAMES B. WOOD Fleet No. G IL C H R I S T Fleet No. 5 4 514 514 1 0 , 000 1 0 , 000 Fleet No. ME R I D A E. W. OGLEBAY D. M. WHITNEY Fleet No. 10 360 375 412 5, 000 5, 000 7, 000 356 6 , 000 THOMAS MA YTHAM TYRONE (barge) VU LCAN 286 300 260 3 , 600 4 , 000 2 , 800 GENERAL GARRETSON H. P. M c I N T O S H Fleet No. LA K E SHORE 6 520 520 1 0 , 000 1 0 , 000 356 6, 000 (It always has been s o m ething of a m y s t e r y to us that two sisterships, G I L CH RIST and LAKE SHORE, were placed in separate one-ship "fleets". Perhaps it had been a n t i c i p a t e d that they w ould attract bids from buyers who only w a n t e d one ship inst e a d of a group of t h e m . ) As it developed, there were very few indi vidual "takers" for any of the ships or "fleets", and so on J a n u a r y 15, 1913, Judge Day or dered that the rem a i n i n g ve sse ls be sold at auction on March 6, 1913. On that T h u r s d a y in March, H. P. McIntosh, one of J. C. G i l c h rist's financial backers and p r e s i dent of the G u a rdian Savings and Trust Company, acting as trustee for C l e v e land banks and other creditors, p u r chased twen ty-two of the steel vessels for the sum of $ 2 , 9 5 5 , 667. The actual a p p raised value of those p a r t i c u l a r ships was $ 4 , 3 9 0 , 000. Several of the s t e e l -hulled Gil c h r i s t boats already had been sold by the l iquidators prior to the auction, and a few others were sold after the M c I n t o s h acquisition. Twelve of the older, w o o d e n - h u l l e d boats were not bid at all. As can be seen from the list of ships put up for sale, V U L C A N was the oldest and smallest of the lot, and one might have thought that she w o u l d not ea sily find a buyer. Such was not the case, however, and V U L C A N a c t u ally was sold before the M a r c h 6, 1913, auction. In fact, she was a c q uired by R. C. and D. T. Helm, of Duluth, and her o w n ership was tr a n s f e r r e d to their Atlas S t e a m s h i p Company. Under her new ownership, V U L C A N was painted in ge n e r a l l y the same manner as w h e n in the G i lchrist fleet, in that her hull and f o recastle were black, her cabins white, and her b o i l e rhouse black. The company's name ap peared on a white "ribbon" on the spar deck rail athwart the bridge structure. The stack