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TELESCOPE Page 114 MEMBERSHIP NOTES @ The G.L.M.I. will host the 4th Annual Marine Art Sale and Marine Flea Market at the museum on Saturday, December 1, 1984 from 10-3 p.m. Interested dealers should contact the museum for details. The museum will be open the following day, December 2nd and then we will close until the second week in January. During this time, the museum exhibits will be moved around to accom- modate the Michigan Time Capsules exhibit. This exhibit will feature examples of nautical archi- tecture found on the bottom of Michigan waters. The most recent addition is the six foot cannon that fell into the Detroit River when the British abandoned Detroit during the War of 1812. The Detroit Harbormaster divers found the cannon 300 feet from Cobo Hall. The Gaelic Tugboat Company sent a tug to assist the divers in recovering the cannon. The Institute extends their appreciation to the divers and tugboat crew for helping the museum. It is with deep regret that we announce the death of Richard Van Collie in April. A long time Institute member, he came from a family of sailors. His father and uncles were crewmen on the Delphine and Richard served on the Morgantheas. He retired from the U.S. Naval Reserve after thirty four years of service. The Institute extends their sympathy to his wife and son. MEETING NOTICES @ The Robert E. Lee Dinner will be held on Friday, October 5, 1984 on the Lansdowne on the Detroit River. Mr. Harry Wolf will be our guest speaker. (See notice on page 139.) The next business meeting (which all members are invited to attend) will be held on Friday, October 19th. The next entertainment meeting will be held on Friday, November 16th. CONTENTS e@ Membership notes, meeting notices 114 A Far Cry From Wartime Gray by Paul Wiening 115 Deep Sea Casualties by Skip Gillham 120 The Indomitable Survivor by Peter Ristevich 125 Great Lakes & Seaway News Edited by Fred Weber 130 Curator Robert E. Lee Dinner 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. . .The sharp ocean prow of the Middletown is even more striking at dusk, as the vessel uses her new self-unloading mechanism to discharge coal at Port Washington, Wisconsin in May, 1983. Paul Wiening has written this month's lead article on the Middletown's career from the stormy days of World War II as a tanker to her conversion to a self-unloader in the fall of 1981. Telescope is produced with assistance from the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, an agency of the Historical Department of the City of Detroit.