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October 222 Telescope In This Issue Meeting Notices, Masthead 222 The Norcross Fleets, A List by Rev. E. J. Dowling, S. J. 223 Active Canallers, photos by George Ayoub 230 Blueprint: Wyandot te seIf-unloader Alpena of 1909 232 Great Lakes Marine News Edited by Robert Radunz 234 Nottingham Note 238 The Ford-built Eagle Boats 239 Curator's Corner 240 Picture Pages: Three Lakers on their way out by Emory A. Massman, Jr. 242 Coming Meetings Business Meeting Friday, October 25, 8 p.m. Dossin Museum Visitors are welcome to these meetings of the Institute's Board of Directors. General Meeting Friday, November 22, 8 p.m. Dossin Museum Fifty years have passed since the Great Storm of 1913, still another anniversary in this year of anniversaries. With the aid of slides, Don Richards will recall for us incidents of that early November gale which claimed more modern steel lakers than any other storm the lakes have seen. If the weather is terrible, be doubly sure to come. For a good blizzard on the river outside Dossin's windows is proper atmosphere for a storm show. Cover Our cover illustrations are from the Dossin Museum's current exhibit on the Ford-built Eagle boats of World War I. Our front cover gets the drawing for a change, one of a series of pencil sketches by Vernon B. Daily document -ing the Eagle Boat construction. Our back cover photo shows bottom plating in place on the "assembly line" that Ford adapted to shipbuilding. "The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promised joy.l --Robert Burns, of course We are sort of sorry that we crowed about our new policy of publishing our issues in the month for which they are named. For, surely enough, we liad to eat crow. Our printer, Bob Davison, found himself in the hospital where he could not process Telescope. We wish Bob a speedy return to better health. The Great Lakes Maritime Institute President, Rev. Edward J„ Dowling, S. J.; Vice-President, Captain william J. Cowles; Coordinating Director, Robert E. Lee; Recording Secretary, Donald v. Baut; Treasurer, James C. McDonald; Directors, Captain Frank Becker, Henry D. Brown, Gordon P. Bugbee, Robert H. Davison, Kenneth L. Fairbanks, William A. Hoey, William LaBonville, Emory A. Massman, Jr., William A. Moss, Robert Radunz, Donald Richards, Otto Strek and William M. Worden Editor, Gordon Bugbee TeleSCOpe Fleet List Editor, the Rev. Edward J. Dowling, S. J. Picture Page Editor, Emory A. Massman, Jr. Associate Editors, William A. Hoey, Robert E. Lee and otto Strek GREAT LAKES MARINE NEWS Editor, Robert Radunz News Photos, William A. Hoey Assistant Editor, Ed Andrews Correspondents, George Ayoub, Fred W. Dutton, Edwin Sprengeler, Otto Strek, Dan M. Weber, Peter B. Worden and Richard J. Wright Printed in U. S. A. by Robert H. Davison, Waterville, Ohio