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JAN/FEB, 1977 totem MEMBERSHIP NOTES Happy New Year, and welcome back for 1977! Your membership renewal expres- ses your satisfaction with the job we're doing better than anything else, and we appreciate the vote of confidence. We intend to continue earning it, but if we fail...let us know! It is your magazine, ancl we want it to re- flect your wishes, so let your wishes be known. Perhaps you missed the mention in the last issue, but we have a very fine booklet, published by the INSTITUTE, now available. This is a special on the sidewheeler City of Detroit III, by Gordon P. Bugbee. The same size, and of format similar to TELESCOPE, the booklet ccntains 32 pages of rare photographs and information on this magnificent vessel. It was produced as a Bicentennial supplement, and members can obtain it for only $1.50. The center-spread of D&C postcards, reproduced in full color, is alone worth the price, so don't miss this addition to your marine library. MEETING NOTICES Regular membership meetings of the INSTITUTE will be held at the Dossin Museum on the following dates, at 8:00 PM: January 28; March 25 and; May 20 (to avoid Memorial Day weekend). We also call your attention to the Annual Blessing of the Fleet, to be held at Old Mariners' Church, Sunday, Marchiils. ate il AM. GAiworcd of wanmung. Lf you want to get im, pet there ean loys») Business meetings (and all members are urged to attend) will be held at the Dossin Museum at 8:00 PM on February 25; April 29, and; June 24. CONTENTS Membership notes, Meeting notices, etc. 2 The Huron Fleet Richard Gebhart 3 Only A Few Remain Bruce Towar 13 Great Lakes & Seaway News Edited by Frederic E. Weber 20 A CORRECTION...In the last issue, on page 154, there was a featurette on the Agios Nikolaos II with no indication of who wrote it. It was, to be sure, the work of George Ayoub. For some reason we can't fathom, the print- er, in cropping the picture, cropped off George's name. We're sorry. OUR COVER PICTURE ...Squatting low in the water with a bellyfull of cement, the 5. T. Crapo gently glides into the Muskegon Chan- nel on a bright August day in 1976. Photo by EDWARD N. MIDDLETON TELEScopE Magazine is produced with assistance from the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, an agency of the Historical Department of the City of Detroit.