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-TELESCOPE Great Lakes Model Shipbuilders' Guild BELLI ISLE DETROIT 7. MICHIGAN Vol. 2 October 1953 No. 10 / JMr s ■dSt HERO OF NORONIC FIRE killed IN CRASH Port Williams, Ont. Nov. 16- Mr. Leo Kari who at 18 was one of the heros of the disastrous Noronic ship fire at Toronto in September, 1949, was killed November 15 in an automobile crash here. Kari was a member of the crew of the $4,000,000 Noronic which burned at the moorings with a loss of 119 | lives, many from the Detroit area. j In the pre-dawn hours he was cred-i ited with saving many of the ship*si vacationing Americans at the risk of his own life. ANOTHER ANCIENT WRECK DISCOVERED IN ST. CLAIR RIVER Oct; 23:- Wreckage of a ancient 100-foot long . ship near the center of theSt. Clair River ship channel, was announced by the Detroit District of the Army Engineers. The wreck is appearently a wooddn ship and is under 25 feet of water. Several deeply laden vessels have reported touching something In the vicinity recently. However it is not a serious hazard to most shipping. An engineers' survey party found it near the head -of Russel Island about 100 feet from the center of the channel. Divers located wooden ribs, but have not been able to determine more about the ship because of murky water. The Engineers will remove the ship by pulling it apart with cables or by blasting. 1U ATTENTION Hi The-NOVEMBER MEETING of the Model Guild will beHELD JN THE BRIEFING R°0M at the DETROIT HISTORICAL MtEUM Friday November 27, 1953,at 8® P.M. BE SURE AND COME BRING A FRIEND DRAWN RY ROWLEY MURPHY AFTER PLANS RY C. H. j SNIDER (Courtesy Rous & Mann Press Lisnsted) The Schooner "Nancy' 1789-1814 The Little Ships: THE NANCY, OF MOY Third in a series on the models on display in the Museum of Great Lakes History. J.E. Johnston, curator The Eighteenth Century was one of uncertainty for the Europeans in the Great Lakes region. For these hardy venturers all activities centered around the few stockaded trading posts \hich were separated by leagues of wilderness. Wars, and rumors of wars, were almost continuous. French and Indians, French and British, British cont. po. 3