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-176- Telescope - August - Left: SILVER STAR has no problem of hot stokeholds. Here the author (at left) and Chief Engineer John Schmitt stand in their open-air engine room. Right: A closer view shows engine and boiler as well as (upper right) coal bunker and ash pit. Since it is difficult to buy a steam launch, component parts must be scrounged, purchased, or custom made, and then assembled. This task has discouraged many would-be launch owners. SILVER STAR has among its components the following: Hull--22' x 6' double-ended lifeboat, built 1916 by Great Lakes Engineering Works. Engine--3" x 3" double cylinder Kriebel oscillator (7 h.p.) vintage 1890s, from a Lake Michigan fish tug. 200 RPM estimated as maximum out put. Boiler--3 h.p. verticar fire-tube (16 of 2" diameter), built 1932. Lubricator and List of Engine Signals--ex of Nicholson Transit Co. steamer CANOPUS. Blowdown valve and Water glass--ex Inter lake's JAMES C. WALLACE Main whistle (three tone)--Great Lakes Towing Company Four Tube Chime--Gabriel Auto horn,, vintage 1902 "Beep" whistle--low water alarm from large boiiei Whistle pull--ex. Straits Ferry CITY OF PETOSKEY Life jackets--ex CANADIANA and PERE MARQUETTE NO. 10 (Continued on page 179)