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Telescope Editor Gordon P. Bugbee Associate Editors Otto Strek William A. Hoey Robert E. Lee Vassal List Editor The Rev. Edward J. Dowling, S . J. Photographic Editor Emory A. Massman, Jr. The Great Lakes Maritime Institute, Inc., promotes interest in the Great Lakes of North America; preserves relics, records, pictures and memorabilia related to these lakes; encourages the building of scale models of Great Lakes ships; and furthers the program of the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, the repository of Institute holdings. The issues of Telescope, monthly journal of the Institute, seek to stimulate inquiry and discussion and to place a record in public hands. Subscription to Telescope is included in membership rights in the Institute; single copies cost 35C each. Telescope welcomes an opportunity to consider manuscripts for publication. These should be addressed to "The Editors, Telescope, Great Lakes Maritime Institute, Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Belle Isle, Detroit 7, Michigan. The editors cannot assume responsibility for the statements made by authors. Other correspondence with the Institute should be addressed to the Coordinating Director at the above address, or may be made by telephone at LO 7-7441. The Great Lakes Maritime Institute was organized in 1952 as the Great Lakes Model Shipbuilders' Guild. The Institute is incorporated as an organization for no profit under the laws of the State of Michigan. No member receives any remuneration for services rendered. Donations to the Institute have been ruled deductible by the Internal Revenue Service. Membership In the Institute, by the calendar year, is available in these forms: Regular Membership........... $ 4 annually Contributing Membership.... 5 annually Sustaining Membership.......... 10 annually Life Membership....................... $ 100 The Institute is supported in part by the Detroit Historical Society. Meeting Notices June Meeting: business meeting of the Board of Directors. General membership invited. Friday, June 29, at 8 p.m., at Dossin Great Lakes Museum. July Meeting: Annual evening Bob-Lo Cruise upon the Six O'clock Boat, at Foot of Woodward, WEDNESDAY, July 26. Plans far our Joint Cruise to Bay City June 6th with the Marine Historical Society of Detroit were unfortunately put out of joint when SOUTH AMERICAN couldn't rendez-vous with the seventy or so people waiting at the Foot of Woodward. She grounded that noon in the St. Clair Flats on a shoal between the old and new channels. We are all grateful to member A1 Bradley, who not only made the ticket arrangements but had refunds to mail. Four tugs and a dredge freed SOUTH AMERICAN the next day without damage. We do not like to make history in this way by seeing Georgian Bay Line off to a bad start for the new season. But this is not SOUTH AMERICAN ! s habit---she was last aground in 1.9 38 and so the chances would be good for a Joint Cruise next year with the Georgian Bay Line up to Bay City. (For news of a fascinating NORTH AMERICAN cruise introduced for July, see page 118.) Robert Hopkin painted this view of "Old Zach Chandler", now in the collection of Mr. Seberon C. Shields and recently part of a Dossin Museum exhibit (see p. 119). Built in 1867 at Detroit, ZACH CHANDLER was later cut down as a tow barge and was stranded 20 miles from Whitefish Bay in Lake Superior in October, 1889. She was named for Zachariah Chandler (1813-1879), U. S. Senator from Michigan (1857-75, 1878-79) and briefly Grant's Secretary of the Interior. Printed by R.H. Davison