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-42- Telescope IN THIS Lighthouse Tenders of the Great Lakes By Rev. Edward J. Dowlmg/ S. J. 43 Iron Merchant Ships: An Upper Lakes Centennial A/fONlTl-PS By Gordon P. Bugbee (Part Two) . 46 lVlWlN 1 II O Blueprint: straits ferry VACATIONIAND (2) 52 Curator's Corner, By Robert E. Lee ............. 54 ISSUE.... Picture Pages By Emory A. Massman, Jr. and By Rev. Edward J. Dowling, S. J................55 Great Lakes Marine News ........................ 58 The Big Splash: GLENEAGLES By Rev. Edward J. Dowling, S. J................62 High and Dry: ALPENA By William A. Hoey ........................... 63 Meeting Notice and Cover Description ........... 64 DISCUSSION: REVIEW A long standing gap in recorded Great Lakes marine history has been filled very creditably by Captain H.C. Inches' newly-published book, The Great Lakes Wooden Shipbuilding Era. The well-known captain, who is the Director of the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes Historical Society at Vermilion, Ohio, grew up near the wooden shipbuilding yards in Michigan, and is well qualified to tell their story. The author's affection for the old wooden vessels shows clearly in this well-told word and picture chronicle of their history. The book will serve many purposes. To the historian of the Great Lakes it supplies a chapter heretofore lacking in the chronology of shipping; to the marine architect it offers blueprints and sail plans of such famous wooden ships as the schooners LUCIA A. SIMPSON, MONTEZUMA, and DAVID DOWS. Blueprints are presented of the lumber vessel CHARLES H. BRADLEY and the ore carrier TAMPA, and each of these five vessels is also represented by photographs. To the picture collector, it will be a windfall of nearly eighty photographs-of wooden tugs, schooners, freighters and passenger vessels, many of which heretofore appeared in the private collections of only a very few Great Lakes historians. Captain Inches has also presented a unique pictorial representation of the life story of the wooden passenger vessel INDIANA, from her construction period through her launching, her passenger service and, finally, her last days of disuse and decay at Toledo, Ohio. The attractively published edition, which will undoubtedly become a collector's item, itself, is available at the present time only by order direct from Captain H. C. Inches, 142 North Main St., Vermilion, Ohio. Price $8.50, which includes Ohio sales tax. --Gordon Wendt