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below Detroit Street. The Mariska's flags were displayed in honor of the event and when she slipped from the blocks every whistle in the neighborhood greeted her. Mrs. W. I. Babcock, wife of W. I. Babcock, superintendent of construction of the Minnesota iron company, christened the vessel.5 Globe also built the sidewheeler Darius Cole (1885), several tugs, the passenger steamer Virginia (1891), three revenue cutters, several barges, a pile driver, and a steam canal boat and her five consorts. The Cleveland Ship Building Company was organized in 1886 by Henry Coffinberry and Robert Wallace. John B. Cowle turned his attentions to the Ship Owners' Dry Dock Company, in which he owned an interest. It will be remembered that Coffinberry, Wallace and Cowle broke with the Globe Iron Works over a disagreement with John Pankhurst. A list of stockholders in this new company sounded like a "Who's Who on the Great Lakes."6 The site of the Cuyahoga Steam Furnace Company, at the corner of Detroit and Center Streets, was purchased. Several buildings and machine shops were added, and launching ways were constructed along the west bank of the Cuyahoga River. The company was incorporated with a paid-up capital of $350,000, with Coffinberry as president and financial manager, Robert Wallace as vice president and general superintendent, William M. Fitch, secretary, and James C. Wallace, Robert's son, designing engineer.7 Thomas Bristow, assistant superintendent of the Detroit Dry Dock Company, was hired as yard superintendent. Coffinberry retired in 1893, and was succeeded by Robert Wallace as president. James Wallace moved up to become vice president. From 1888 to 1897 Cleveland Ship Building Company launched twenty-eight vessels of various descriptions. They varied in size from the bulk freighters Pontiac (1889) and Empire City (1897) to the tug Edna G. (1896) and yacht Wadena (1892). One unique class of bulk freighter built by Cleveland Ship Building was the "straightback." This class was a cross between a whaleback (or cigar-shaped hull) and a conventional bulk freighter. Three such vessels were built, the Andaste (1892), Choctaw (1892), and Yuma (1893). Two of the vessels built by Cleveland Ship Building in 1890 had mysteriously disastrous ends. The Western Reserve foundered about sixty miles off Whitefish Point, Lake Superior, on August 30, 1892, during a severe gale. Only one life was saved. The thirty-one lives lost included Philip Minch and his entire family, excepting an infant son who had been left at home. Minch will be remembered for his shipbuilding activities in Vermilion (see page 54). The W. H. Gilcher is believed to have collided 94