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Telescope 9 I i Launch of the MONTFAUCON at Wyandotte. 1920 (Photo, Courtesy David T. Glick) THE BIG SPLASH MONTFAUCON (US.219952) was launched at the Wyandotte Yards of the Detroit Shipbuilding Company in December 1920.She was Hull No. 231. Dimensions: 251 x Ij.3.6 x 21}..2; 2309 gross tons and l/jl(.0 net tons. Powered by triple expansion engines of 20", 30", and 5V diameter of cylinders by I4.0" stroke, built by the shipyard engine works. This freighter, of the "Laker" design, was one of ten similar ships built by American Shipbuilding Company on its own account, from materi8.1s left over from the "Laker" program of World War I. Seven of the ten were built at Wyandotte and three at Cleveland. For some years they were operated on the Great Lakes as the Independent Steamship Company (See TELESCOPE, June I960). Eventually they were sold to other owners. Thus MONTFAUCON passed to Aetna Portland Cement Company of Saginaw and was renamed E.M. HJNCE in the late Twenties. The vessel was sold to foreign owners in 19^.0 and renamed successively INTREPIDO (19l|0), VALEROSO (19l|7), MARIANNINA (1949), and an internal scrapped. New York in ANNA MARIA IEVOLI (1955). She was severely damaged by explosion while docked at Naples on ll-21-'57 and was Our photo below taken by Stephen Gmelin shows her at 19^8 carrying the name VALEROSO.