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TELESCOPE Page 2 MEMBERSHIP NOTES e@ In early November, Columbia Transportation's Sylvania was towed from Toledo to Ashtabula, Ohio to be scrapped. Before she left, the museum and the Institute made arrangements with Triad Salvage to purchase the paneling from the Captain's Quarters and Officer's Dining Room. When she arrived in Ashtabula, John Polacsek and Jim Conway spent a week removing the panel- ing. There are no immediate plans to install the paneling in the existing museum, but hopefully in the future, a new wing will be built and visitors will be able to walk through the reconstructed rooms as they appeared on the ship. The Detroit Marine Historical Society has published Great Lakes Ships We Remember II. The tentative price is $34.50 and it should be available by February. MEETING NOTICES e@ Mr. Herbert Crane will be our guest speaker at the January meeting. (See meeting notice on page 27.) Future entertainment meetings are scheduled for March 16 and May 18. Future Business meetings are scheduled for February 17, April 20 and June 15. All meetings begin at 8:00 p.m. at Dossin. On February 24, 1983, the Institute and the Marine Historical Society of Detroit will hold a joint entertainment meeting at Dossin. Fr. Edward Dowling, S.J. will present an illustrated program titled "'Lake Michigan Passenger Ships I Remember". Please join us for this special meeting. The Blessing of the Fleet will be held on Sunday, March 11, 1984 at Mariners Church on Jeffer- son Avenue. The service begins at 11:00 a.m., but plan to arrive shortly after 10:00 for a seat. CONTENTS e Membership Notes, meeting Notices, etc 2 A Maiden Voyage into History by Thom Holden 3 The Wreck of the Golden Fleece by Jack Messmer 11 Great Lakes & Seaway News Edited by Fred Weber 17 January Entertainment Meeting 27 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. . .With the recent conversions of several older ships to self-unloaders, the straight-deckers are becoming a rare sight. Institute member Clayton Evans took this photo of the George M. Humphrey in Lake Superior in September, 1980. Telescope is produced with the assistance of the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, an agency of the Historical Department of the City of Detroit.