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Telescope 212 Photo by Capt. Wm. J. Taylor. The Fabulous DELPHINE by Stoddard White Detroit News Marine Writer Few things are colder than a dead ship. The passenger cabins echo hollowly, their beautiful draperies and carpeting stored at the cleaners. The baggage hold -- once packed with trunks full of lovely gowns and dress suits -- resounds like a tomb. The once-throbbing engine room is dry, but silent. Wooden decks and steel bulkheads are clammy. This is the famous Dodge yacht DELPHINE--whose pilothouse clock stopped at $tl6 one day in September, 1955. Largest private vessel ever to sail the Great Lakes--until Queen Elizabeth II brought the huge BRITANNIA here last Sumner - the DELPHINE lies in lonely, empty splendor at her dock on Lake St. Clair. But the DELPHINE is not unattended. Around the clock, she has the loving care of three men who helped sail her and who hope to sail her again. They swab her decks,keep the machinery in operating condition and protect her white sides. They have just supervised putting $4,000 worth of new eanvas on the pilothouse roof and over the searchlights. Old canvas showed the rot and wear of 38 years. The DELPHINE could sail in a couple of months, says Chief Engineer Edward J. Hudson, the shipkeeper. First, however, he would have to arrange for dredging of the sllted-up private channel into the lake. Then he would have to assemble the crew of about 55--plus maids, waiters end porters--needed at sea. The fabulous vessel belongs to Mrs. Anna Thompson Dodge, widow of Horace E. Dodge, the motormaker who did not live to see the DELPHINE launched at River Rouge in 1921. Horace E« Dodge personally inspected and supervised building of his yacht DELPHINE, despite his failing health. Because the auto pioneer could not move around easily, the shipyard rigged a seat for him on a large crane. The crane moved him from place to place so he could watch the installation of every bit of machinery. Mrs. Dodge employs the three men to stand watches in a shanty at the end of the DELPHINE'S dock near Grosse Pointe Memorial Church and the Little Club.