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telescope 25C VOL. 5 JANUARY 1956 NO. 1 U.S. YANTIC This picture shows the Yantic pretty much as she appeared when she came to the Great Lakes. Only her top-sail yards have been removed. Later her fore, main and mizzen masts, each with its own top-mast, were removed and two pole masts installed instead. Her bowsprit and jib boom were sawdd off, her smoke stack, and ventilators raised, and an ungainly superstructure built to replace a very uncomfortable open navigator's bridge. A spar deck was added, with additional deck houses on top of that, rendering her forever incapable of again setting a single piece of canvas. Beginning on page 3 you may read the life story of this fine old vessel which was known in every port on the Great Lakes fifty or more years ago.