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TELESCOPE Page 114 MEMBERSHIP NOTES e@ At the June meeting, the Board of Directors voted to raise membership dues for 1983. The new rates for 1983 will be $8.00 - American, $10.00 - Canadian and overseas and $12.00 sustaining. Institute member Barry Andersen is hosting a radio program in St. Catharines titled Welland Canal Diary. Local station CKTB - 610 on the AM dial is presenting a 5 minute program of vessels transitting the Canal and expected etas. The show is on Monday-Friday 5:55 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 11:05 after the morning news. In our gift shop we have two new items. Those interested in the Welland Canal will want to read The Welland Canals: A Comprehensive Guide by John Jackson of Brock University and Fred Addis of Port Colborne. The Guide contains 142 pages and over 150 illustrations. The four chapters cover such areas as characteristics of the Welland Canal, points of interest along the canal, ships and trade on the canal and canal data. This book sells for $9.95. The other new item is a license plate promoting the Dossin Museum and the Institute. The plate has a white background with the Institute logo on the right and a blue freighter on the left. All lettering is in blue also. The license plate sells for $3.00. MEETING NOTICES @ Mr. James Wilson will be our speaker at the Curator Robert E. Lee Dinner to be held at the Detroit Boat Club on September 17. The next business meeting is scheduled for October 15 and the next entertainment meeting will be on November 19. Both meetings will begin at 8 p.m. at Dossin Museum. CONTENTS @ Membership notes, meeting notices 114 A Queen in Limbo Christine Hilston 115 No! Not the Roland Skip Gillham 119 Turning the Kunikawa Lawson Browne 123 Liberty Ship Jonian Trader George Ayoub 129 Great Lakes & Seaway News edited by Frederic Weber 130 Robert Lee Annual Dinner Notice 139 Published at Detroit, Michigan, by the GREAT LAKES MARITIME INSTITUTE ©All rights reserved. Printed in the United States by Macomb Printing Specialties OUR COVER PICTURE. . .Once called "Queen of the Lakes", the William P. Snyder Jr. is seen here downbound in the Livingston Channel. This photo was taken in July, 1980, her last season in operation and her future still remains questionable. The Snyder Jr. is the subject of this month's lead article by Christine Hilston. Photo from the Dossin Museum collection. Telescope Magazine is published with assistance from the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, an agency of the Historical Department of the City of Detroit.