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72 Telescope ABOUT THE CENTER SPREAD This month we are departing from the usual center spread plan to present maps 4f the Detroit area port facility so that members and friends from out-of-town might have some idea of what the Port of Detroit offers, and whete some of the points of interest are. There are presently 67 major active piers, warves and docks in the port district. All except four are sites of private industrial or commercial marine facilities used exclusively for the handling of bulk raw materials. Through the years prior to the opening of the Seaway, these private industrial and commercial bulk terminals handled almost 90# of the port's total commerce volume. Within the port district are three terminals for automobile shipment, two railroad car ferry terminals, two passenger and excursion terminals and numerous small facilities for mooring vessels. Available to overseas exporters and importers are two prime general cargo terminals, and two terminals for the receipt or shipment of iron, steel and scrap. VESSEL CHANGES ELMDALE (a, Clifford P. Moll; b, Standard Portland Cement) which was sold to Reoch Transports,Ltd,, Montreal,P.Q., is operating under owners* name Redwood Enterprises,Ltd,,Hamilton, Bermuda, B.W.I. REPUBLICA DE VENEZUELA (a, Magnus Hitch), bit, by Globe SB Co., Superior, Wis. (Cl-M-AVI class cargo vessel), in 1945, was sold by Cia. Anonima Venezolana de Navegacion S.A., La Guaira, Venezuela, to Oceania Navigation Co., Ltd., (British), rename DAIKO. RIO ORINOCO (a, Mainsheet Eye), (Cl-M-AVI class cargo vessel), bit. by Walter Butler Shipbuilders, Inc., 1945, at Duluth, Minn., was sold by Cia. Anonima Venezolana de Navegacion S.A., Puerta Cabello, Venezuela, to Oceania Navigation Co., Ltd. (British), renamed DAISEI. SHIPS continued from page 65 There, one of the Menge brothers patterned a new hull after the or- iginal SUWANEE, with her original dimensions. The boat was built, and put into operation. Then in 1954, further restoration work was done. A new boiler, welded instead of riveted (because of boiler codes) but otherwise a duplicate of the original, was donated by the Wickes Boiler Company of Saginaw, Michigan. The new boiler was installed, and at the same time the hull was entirely recaulked and repaired. The little SUWANEE was but a small part of the transportation picture in the United States. Yet it has fallen to her to represent to future generations the most romantic type of steam driven vessel ever devised....the Mississippi River Palace Boat. She has found a safe haven, a last resting place. But, the SUWANEE does not rest. She takes thousands of delighted children and adults on rides over her little lagoon every year.