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April TELESCOPE 76 LAKERS OF WORLD WAR I AND THEIR PREDECESSORS PORTO RICO, photo from Dowling collection canal in two pieces. They were then reassembled when they reached Montreal. These and two smaller vessels of the later 1890s are described below: s.s. Keweenaw (US 161010), 1891 Bay City, Michigan, by F. W. Wheeler & Co. (hull #73), for Saginaw S. S. Co., New York. 270 x 41 x 26. Foundered off the Pacific Coast in 1894. s.s. Mackinaw (US 92226), 1891 Bay City by Wheeler (#70) for same owners. Sister ship in all details of Keweenaw, Sold Japanese in 1916 and renamed Sawa Maru (J. 19192). No record in Lloyds' after 1929. (See illustration) In 1901 and 1902, five more sea from Great Lakes shipyards size and sailed out directly, large experimental type, were canals . These ships are described s.s. Mae (US 92953), 1899 Toledo by John Craig (hull #75) for Miller, Bull 8i Knowlton, New York. 252 x 42 x 24. Later sold French and renamed Neree. In Lloyds', 1927. s. s. Porto Rico (US 150836), 1899 Toledo by Craig (#76) for New York & Porto Rico S. S. Co., New York. 220 x 32 x 19. Later sold foreign and successively carried the names Miaranquan, Aristides, Danai, Angeliki Venetzianou and Thira. Drops out of Lloyds' in 1939; probably was broken up. (See illustration. ) ready to go t o were of canal of an extremely towed through the ocean vessels were Three of these Th e other two, bulkheaded and below: