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Telescope 175 Fleet of the Port Huron and Duluth Transportation Company This company operated in the package freight trade and carried some passengers between ports on Lake Huron and Lake Superior for about ten years, 1905-1915. The following eight vessels were in this fleet at one time or another during this decade. Str. LAKELAND (ex CAMBRIA, US.1261j.20), 1887 Cleveland, 280 x 1+0 x 20. Steel. Formerly a bulk freighter of the old between-deck design. Later fitted with cabins on the main deck. Later used as an auto carrier. Foundered off Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin under mysterious circumstances, 12-3-24. Str. LAKEPORT (ex BOSTON, US.311+0), 1881+ Wyandotte, 263 x 36 x 15, iron, double-decked package freighter. Later converted into a sand carrier and scrapped in the middle Thirties, Str. LAKEWOOD (ex SYRACUSE, US.116025). 1881+ Wyandotte, 267 x 38 x 16. Iron, double decked package freighter. Later used in the sand trade and shortened 20 feet in 1919. Later K.V. SCHWARTZ and ALGONAC. Still afloat though Inactive recently. Str. NEW YORK (US.130157). 1879 Buffalo. Wooden package freighter, 268 x 36 x 16. Foundered, Lake Huron, 10-1-10. Str. PERE MARQUETTE 5 (ex F.& P.M. No 5. US.120812), 1890 W. Bay City, Michigan. Wooden passenger and freight steamer, 226 x 38 x 21+. Chartered by P.H. & D. Later sold to owners in Newfoundland and renamed ANZAC. Foundered in Atlantic off Nanset. Mass., 2-23-17. . Str. PORTLAND (ex A.B. WOLVIN, US.107563), 1900 Cleveland, Ohio, 21+2 x 1+2 x 26, steel freighter. Went to salt water during World War I and sailed for some time later on the North Pacific Coast. Str. RUSSIA (US.110063), 1872 Buffalo, 231 x 35 x 13. Iron package freighter. Foundered on Lake Huron near Detroit, 1+-30-09. Str. WYOMING (US.81150), 1887 Buffalo, 21+1 x 39 x ll+. Wooden freighter. Out of U.S. Registry, 1920. Vessels of this fleet seem to have had white hull early, later dark probably black. Stacks show early as silver or white with black top, later with some sort of a stripe design, still later all dark. Possibly, some of our readers can inform us accurately in this regard.