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Telescope PUBLISHED 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 Robert E. Lee 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 TELESCOPE 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, TELESCOIE 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 This Month's Issue CONTENTS Two ? hips Nailed ALGOMA by Fred Landon...............203-205 Curator's Gorner by Robert E. Lee..............206 Light Ships of the Lakes by Rev. E.J. Dowling,S.J..207-209 Blue Rrint-Tug JAMES WHALEN 210-211 The Big Splash by Rev. E.J. Dowling,?.J......212 Picture Page by Enjory A. Massman, Jr.......213 Advertising: Girca 1880....214-215 by Gordon P. Bugbee Great Lakes Marine News by Robert B. Radunz 216-219 COVER A rare photo of the wrecked ALGOMA in 1885 on the shore of Greenstone Island. Her engines were salvaged the following year to power the steamer MANITOBA for more than sixty years. Dossin Museum Photograph Regular Membership........$4 annually Contributing Membership..$5 annually Sustaining Membership...$10 annually Life Membership...........$100 Membership by the Calendar Year Single Copies 35