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TELESCOPE Page 75 PART XII: American Canal-size powered tankers. IRENE W. ALLEN (US 229939); 1930 Sparrows Point, Maryland by Bethlehem for Lake Tankers Corporation. Sold Cuban, 1949 and renamed Ethel B. Listed in Lloyds as late as 1967. JUSTINE C. ALLEN (US 229940); 1930 Sparrows Point, Maryland by Bethlehem for Lake Tankers Corporation. Sold Canadian in 1948 and renamed Bayshell (Can 169868) and Panamanian in 1967 and renamed Stella. May still be in service. INFORMATION REQUESTED. AQUIDABAN (US 223068); 1920 Elizabeth, New Jersey by Bethlehem for New York owners. Came into the Great Lakes occasionally under original name and after 1925 as Transford II, Sold British (Br 171877) and retained name Transford II. Apparently still in service as harbor bunkering unit at Port of Spain, Trinidad. ARISTOBULO DEL VALLE; 1917 Ecorse by Great Lakes Engineering Works for the Republic of Argentina Navy. Scrapped in the 1960's. J. OSWALD BOYD ROSS & WILEY PHOTO Author's Collection J. OSWALD BOYD (US 223043, exeBritish); 1913 Paisley, scotland by Bow, McLachlan & Come pany. Purchased in 1923 by Pan American Petroleum Transport Company. Operated on the Great Lakes in the early and middle 1930's by Gotham Marine Company. Stranded on Sime mons*® Reef, Lake Michigan, 11/11/36. Abandoned after fire and explosion damage and fis nally scrapped at Ecorse, Michigan by Great Lakes Steel Corporation during World War II. BRILLIANT (US 211620); 1913 Lorain, Ohio by American Ship Building Company for Standard Oil Company. Owned by Richfield Oil Company after 1925 and renamed Richfield. Stranded near Fort Richmond, California, 5/8/30. COMET (US 211398); 1913 Lorain, Ohio by American Ship Building Company for Standard Oil Company. Sold Mexican in 1928 and renamed Cometa. Back to U.S. and the Great Lakes in 1935 as Comet. Lengthened 72 ft. by Great Lakes Engineering Works in 1940. Still in service as a unit of Cleveland Tankers, Inc. CRUDOIL (ex-Panoil, US 217637); 1919 Violet, Louisiana by Alabama & New Orleans Transe portation Company for Pan American Petroleum Transport Company. Came to the Great Lakes in 1930 and renamed. Later named North Star by Cleveland Tankers, Inc. Out of documentae tion in 1951. DISPOSITION DATA REQUESTED. DAWNLITE (US 214491); 1916 Toledo by Toledo Shipbuilding Company for Standard Oil of