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Telescope PUBLISHED BY This Month's Issue Great Lakes Maritime Institute Dossin Great Lakes Museum Belle Isle, Detroit 7, Mich. George 0. Young Editor Otto Strek Assistant Editor William A. Hoey Advisory Editor William M. Worden Gordon P. Bugbee Associate Editors Rev. Edward J. Dowling, S.J. Vessel List Editor TELESCOPE The TELESCOPE magazine is the official publication of the Great Lakes Maritime Institute. It was first published in 1952 as a sheet of announcements and meeting notices. Today it is a full-size monthly magazine, valued by members and non-members alike as a source of Great Lakes data. The TELESCOPE includes articles of interest to almost everyone, including such subjects as history, salvage, current news, and model shipbuilding. There are three monthly features, current news section, vessel list of a Great Lakes fleet, and a blueprint of a Great Lakes ship.Subscription to TEIESCOPE is included in the membership fee. The editors will consider articles of Great Lakes or general marine interest for publication in TELESCOPE. Such material need not be expertly written, but must be of a nature suited to the purposes of the publication. Address any such material to: The Editors, TEIESCOPE Great Lakes Maritime Institute Dossin Great Lakes Museum Belle Isle. Detroit 7, Mich. LO. 7-7441 Address all other correspondence to the Coordinating Director. The editors will assume no responsibility for statements made by the authors. Supported in part by the Detroit Historical Society Printed by R. H.Davison CONTENTS Tbe Senca Explosion by Wnj. A. McDonald..............83-84 Obituary-Frank Barcus.................84 Whitefish Bay.........................85 Corrections...........................85 U.S.Lake Purvey .....................86 Curator's Corner by Robt. E. Lee.....................87 Picture Page by Emory J. Massman,Jr.............88 The Big Splash by Rev. E.J.Dowling,S.J.............89 Blue Print-FRANK E. KIRBY..........90-91 Fleet List by Rev. E.J.Dowling,8.J..........92-94 Creat Lakes Marine News by Robt. B. Radunz...............95-99 COVER PICTURE This month's cover is of the Whitefish Bay, C.S.L's new Flagship, on her first trip at Cleveland. See page 85. Picture by P.B.Worden. Regular Membership........$4 annually Contributing Membership..$5 annually Sustaining Membership...$10 annually Life Membership...........$100 Membership by the Calendar Year Single Copies 35