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the Globe yard on her first trip. Until his death on October 21, 1893, Smith was the reason for the Globe interests becoming so prominent as builders of steel ships. When he was superintendent of the Globe Works, no less than forty-eight ships were built by this firm! In 1886 a difference of opinion arose between Pankhurst and the other officers of the firm. Wallace, Coffinberry, and Cowle sold their interests to Marcus A. and Howard M. Hanna. This reorganization of the Globe Works saw the Globe Ship Building Company absorbed by the parent firm. At the same time George Presley sold his interests of Presley and Company to the new organization. This yard, called the Cleveland Dry Dock Company, was used for the building of wooden vessels and for vessel repairs (see pages 30, 80). A further reorganization took place in 1890, and the new officers of the Globe Iron Works were Howard M. Hanna, president, John F. Pankhurst, vice president, and Luther Allen, secretary and treasurer. Allen formerly was secretary and treasurer of the Society for Savings in Cleveland. This organization remained until the Globe interests were acquired by the American Ship Building Company in 1899. The last property acquired by the Globe interests was in 1896, when, under the title of the Cleveland Dry Dock Company, they purchased the interests and two dry docks belonging to the Ship Owners' Dry Dock Company (see page 80). This was necessitated by Globe's large volume repair business. Altogether the Globe yard carried eighty-one hull numbers, building many different classes of vessels. Some of the vessels built by Globe will never be forgotten. Two of the finest passenger ships ever built on the lakes were the palatial steamers North West and North Land, in 1894 and 1895, for James J. Hill's Northern Steamship Company. The sleek, fast package freighters E. P. Wilbur (1888), North Wind (1888), Northern Wave (1889), and North Star (1889) were Globe-built, as were the lighthouse tenders Lilac (1891) and Comanche (1892). Bulk freighters built by Globe included the Matoa (1890), Saxon (1891), Roman (1891), and Coralia (1896). The package freighter Saranac (1890) carried the first steel mast on the Great Lakes.4 A typical description of a Globe launching was carried about the bulk freighter Mariska (1890) by the Plain Dealer: Over 1,000 people witnessed the Minnesota iron company's new steamer glide into the water at the Globe iron works company shipyard yesterday afternoon. About 500 people congregated in the shipyard, while many viewed the launch from the opposite side of the river and from the hills 93