November 246 Telescope The Great Lakes Maritime Institute President, Rev. Edward J. Dowling, S. J.; Vice-president, Captain william J. Cowles; Coordinating Director, Robert E. Lee; Recording Saaratary, Donald v. Baut; Treasurer, James c. McDonald; Direotore, 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________________________ Iditor, Gordon Bugbee T©l©SCOJ>© 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 OREAT LAKES MARCHE NEWS Editor, Robert Radunz News Photoa, 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 Meeting Notices General Meeting Friday, November 22, 8 p.m. Dossin Museum, Belle Isle The Great Storm of 1913 will be featured in this fiftieth anniversary month in a slide talk by Don Richards. An Institute director who has been instrumental in helping to organize the museum's new darkroom, Don has prepared slides of ships involved in the storm. His talk will recall their experiences. As an added resource for his talk, Don prepared the storm list featured in this issue of Telescope. Business Meeting Friday, January 3, 1964, 8 p.m. Dossin Museum, Belle Isle A meeting of the Board of Directors is scheduled for this date to avoid the busy Christmas holidays. All members and visitors are welcome to attend. In This Issue: Front cover: Howard M. Hanna, Jr., was stranded near Port Austin in Mich-igan's thumb, in Lake Huron, in the Great Storm of 1913. The Pesha photo shown is~from the Dowling col led ion. Meeting Notices, Masthead .............. 246 A 50th Anniversary Casualty List for The Great Storm By Donald Richards .................. 247 Grand Salon: Loading the SeIf- unloader Ben E. Tate Photographs by Gordon Bugbee ... 254 Blueprint: Comparative longitudinal sections of the self-unloaders Alpena and Wyandotte 256 The Starling Saga ...................... 258 High and Dry: Sugar Islander in the new Soo Dry Dock By William A. Hoey .................. 260 Curator's Corner By Robert E. Lee .................... 261 Picture Pages: Lake Michigan Car Ferries By Emory A. Massman, Jr.............. 262 Great Lakes Marine News Edited by Robert Radunz ............. 264 Back cover: Outboard profile of seIf- unloader Wyandotte (i). From Marine Review, November, 1909, page 438.