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TELESCOPE December 279 LAKE SHIPS WITH NEW BRITISH ACCENTS Introduction One of the strongest features of Telescope in recent years has been the fine and timely photographs of new, traded or renamed lake ships produced by Peter B. Worden. Peter has just completed a three-year term of duty as a Coast Guard officer stationed at the Soo. There he has been in a very good position to photograph passing vessels in the St. Marys River. That the clear atmosphere up north is not altogether responsible for the good results of his photography will be evident in his photographs of this issue, some dating back to ten years ago, and usually taken in the Detroit and Cleveland areas. Moving south this month with his wife and small son, Peter will work for Pontiac Division of General Motors Corporation. We are fortunate that his camera will presumably remain within range of the passing river traffic. --GPB * * * * * In April, 1960, American Steamship Company sold its small self-unloader Sinaloa to the Reoch interests of Montreal. Thus began the transfer of a sizeable portion of the United States lake bulk freighter fleet to Canadian ownership. In lake annals, this was not new, but since the early nineteen fifties, Canadian law had discouraged such transfers into Can- I J JOHN DUNN, JR. (upper photograph on page 278 ) (US 204973) (b) SPRUCEDALE (Br 199405) Built 1908 at Toledo by Toledo Shipbuilding Co. (hull #111) Measurements 7998 gross tons, 4314 net, 514 x 58 x 25.6 Engine 4 cylinder quadruple-exp., 2029"-4261 1/8" x 42" Sold in April, 1961, by Wilson Marine Transit Company to Redwood Enterprises Ltd. (Reoch fleet), Montreal Shown inbound at Cleveland main entrance, 1960 E GENE C. HUTCHINSON (US 214499) (a) William C. Moreland (salvaged after-portion) (b) Sir Trevor Dawson (c) Charles L. Hutchinson (ii) (e) PARKDALE (ii) (Br 316355) Built 1910 at Lorain by American Shipbuilding Co. (hull #387) and reconstructed 1916 by American Shipbuilding Co. (hull #524) at Superior, Wisconsin Measurements 8947 gross tons, 6533 net, 580 x 58 x 32 Engine 3 cylinder t r i p 1 e - expansion , 24 1/8 "-391/"-65 " x 42" Sold in November, 1962, by Pioneer Steamship Company to Redwood Enterprises Ltd. (Reoch fleet), Montreal Shown downbound at Fort Gratiot, Port Huron, 1960