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TELESCOPE Page 118 gross tone.) In May 1950, the Snyder Jr.'s original coal-fired triple expansion power plant was replaced. She received new boilers and was repowered with a coal-fired, 4,500-horsepower Skinner Uniflow engine. Steam in the Uniflow moved at a single pressure throughout, driving the engine's five cylinders. Her speed was rated at 15 m.p.h. light and 14 m.p.h. loaded. As happens during most lake vessels' lengthy careers, the Snyder Jr.'s tank top and side tanks were ripe for renewal in 1949. In 1950, the Shenango Furnace Company saw fit to give her a new aft penthouse, along with partial remodeling of the after cabins. Her forward cabins were remodeled in 1954. The pipe organ was removed, and in its place, the Texas Deck cabin became the crew's recreation room in later years. In 1966, the Snyder Jr. was again updated with the addition of a 700-horsepower Am- thrust bow thruster. Named in honor of William Penn Snyder, Jr., chairman of the board of Shenango Furnace Company, the William P. Snyder, Jr. was with the Shenango fleet until it was dissolved in 1967 and its three vessels (Snyder Jr., Schoonmaker and Shennango I) passed into the hands of the Interlake Steamship Company Division of Pickands Mather and Company. Her dark green Shenango hull became Interlake red, her stack received an orange strip; yet her name remained the same. On January 1, 1971, Cleveland Cliffs Steam- ship Company took possession of the Snyder Jr. This time her cabins became pea green, her hull black, her stack received a red "C", but still she retained the name William P. Snyder Jr. In an effort to modernize and economize her power plant was subsequently converted to oil and automated in early 1971. Much of the Snyder Jr.'s career with Cleve- land Cliffs was spent carrying iron ore up the Cuyahoga River to the Republic Steel plant in Cleveland. Time, economics, and contract changes took their toll, however. And now the steamer William P. Snyder Jr. seems destined to join the ranks of Great Lakes steamboats which are but a well-known name, a photo in a book - a memory. O The SNYDER JR. moves down the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland on her final "a ; | -- = trip, December 15, 1980. Author's photo