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-214- Telescope Meeting Notices BUSINESS MEETING! Board of Directors; general membership -welcome to attend. Tuesday, November 6, at 8 p.m. at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Belle Isle. GENERAL MEETING: Bill Hoey will take us back through the career of the popular D & C sidewheeler CITY OF CLEVELAND III of 1908, with illustrations. Friday, November 30, 8 p.m., at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum. In This Issue... Cover: Canadian Oil Companies' new W. HAROLD REA Photograph by the Rev. Peter Vander Linden The Great Lakes Navy--a List Paintings from Brodhead Naval Armory, Detroit By the Rev. Edward J. Dowling, S. J. ............ 215 Guided Missile Destroyer U.S.S. LAWRENCE Photographs by William A. Hoey ..................... 222 Blueprint: River freighter GLEN ALIAN of 1912 .... 224 Curator's Corner, by Robert E. Lee ................... 226 "The Big Splash": WILLIAM A. IRVIN By the Rev. Edward J. Dowling, S. J................. 227 Great Lakes Marine News .............................. 228 Book Review: George W. Hilton, The Great Lakes Car Ferries, reviewed by Thomas B. Dancey .......... 232 At the Masthead, a Broom. . .and a Belt .............. 233 Picture Pages, by Emory A. Massman, Jr., Peter B. Worden and the Rev. Edward J. Dowling, S. J..........234 Telescope Editor: Gordon Bugbee Vessel List Editor: the Rev. Edward J. Dowling, S. J. Photographic Editor: Emory A. Massman, Jr. Associate Editors: William A. Hoey, Robert E. Lee and Otto Strek Great Lakes Marine News Correspondents: George Ayoub, Fred W. Dutton, Edwin Sprengeler, Otto Strek, Dan M. Weber, Peter B. Worden and Richard J. Wright 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 L^kes Museum, the repository cf 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............ 8 4 annually Contributing Membership.... 5 annually Sustaining Membership........ 10 annually Life Membership...................... ® 100 The Institute is supported in part by the Detroit Historical Society.