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TELESCOPE Page 114 MEMBERSHIP NOTES @ The Great Lakes Maritime Institute will sponsor a ship model contest at the Dossin Museum on the weekend of October 19-20, 1985. The deadline for entry forms is October 13th. Those wishing to enter can pick up a form at local model shops or call the museum. The Annual Marine Flea Market will be held at the museum on Saturday, December 7, 1985 from 10-3 p.m. Dealers who respond by November 15th will receive 50 postcards advertising the event to send to their customers. Those interested in renting tables should contact John Polacsek at the museum during the week. Al Sagon-King and Skip Gillham are co-authors of The Changing Seaway. This 64-page book traces the history of thirty ships that have used the St. Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes during the past twenty-five years. By telling the ship's history, one learns the changes that have taken place along the waterway. All the photographs were taken by Al Sagon-King, while Skip Gillham wrote the accompanying text. Members can purchase the book at the museum for $9.95 plus $1.50 for postage or order through the publisher: Stonehouse Pulications 140 Welland Ave., St. Catharines, Ontario L2R 2N6. The Michigan Nautical Time Capsules is finally back from the printer and is an excellant guide to the exhibit at the museum. Not only does it contain reprints of Telescope articles, but articles on the Detroit River Cannon, schooner Alvin Clark, propeller Goliath and propeller Pewabic were added. The book costs $5.00 plus $1.50 for postage. MEETING NOTICES @ Shipwreck diver Dave Trotter will speak on the Daniel Morrell and the Goliath at the Curator Robert E. Lee Dinner on the Lansdowne on Friday, September 20th. Dr. Richard Wright will speak on the gales of November at the next entertainment meeting scheduled for Friday, November 15 at 8:00 p.m. at the museum. The next business meeting will be held on Friday, October 18th at 7:30 p.m. at the museum. CONTENTS e@ Membership Notes, meeting notices, etc. 114 Those Incredibly Capable Crane Conversions by Paul Wiening 115 Deep Sea Casualties by Skip Gillham 124 The David Dows Revisited by Kenneth Dickson 128 Great Lakes & Seaway News Edited by Fred Weber 133 Published at Detroit, Michigan by the GREAT LAKES MARITIME INSTITUTE ©All rights reserved. Printed in these United States by Macomb Printing Specialties. OUR COVER PICTURE . . . Pete Worden took this photo of the Paterson as she entered the MacArthur Lock at the Soo on her maiden trip from Collingwood Shipyard to Thunder Bay, Ontario. Official number C 800816; 20370.36 Canadian gross tons; 736'6.5" x 75'10" x 42'. (el Telescope is produced with assistance from the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, an agency of the Historical Department of the City of Detroit.