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Page 30 MEMBERSHIP NOTES • On Wednesday March 18th, the Wm. Clay Ford pilothouse will finally be opened to the public. The lower level will serve as the information center where visitors begin their tour by becoming crew members of the Ford. After receiving their crew assignments, visitors will go up the actual stairs into the pilothouse to become wheelsmen, mates or captain. The lower level will also contain an exhibit on the history of the Ford that includes models of the Edmund Fitzgerald and Ford on the night of November 10,1975. Pleae note change of date: On your membership card, the date for the Curator Robert E. Lee Dinner was scheduled for September 18th. We have changed the date to Friday, September 25,1992 at the St. Clair Inn. MEETING NOTICES • The next scheduled entertainment meeting will be held on Saturday, March 21,1992 at 11:00 a.m. at Dossin Museum. Our guest speaker will be Dr. Henry Benford from the School of Naval Architecture at the University of Michigan. Due to the annual bike race held on the third Saturday in May on Belle Isle, the May entertainment meeting will be held on Saturday, May 16th at 8:00 pm. at the Museum of Arts & History, 1115 Sixth St., Port Huron, MI. (313) 982-0891. Our guest speaker will be Buck Longhurst talking on "The Tug Avenger: Past and Present History". Joining the GLMI will be the Marine Historical Society of Detroit and the Lake Huron Lore Society. CONTENTS • Membership Notes, meeting notices, etc. A Classic Class - Part II Detroit Bids Farewell to the Bob-Lo Boats Troopships of World War II That Have Sailed on the Great Lakes : S. S. Joseph H. Thompson Great Lakes & Seaway News Great Lakes Calendar 30 by Gary Dewar 31 37 by Roland W. Charles & Fred Weber 40 Edited by Don Richards 43 52 Published at Detroit, Michigan by the GREAT LAKES MARITIME INSTITUTE All rights reserved. Printed in the United States by Macomb Printing, Inc. OUR COVER PICTURE... A veteran of Great Lakes service as the Juanita and Milwaukee Clipper, she was finally withdrawn from service in 1970. Taken to Chicago to become a tourist attraction along the waterfront, permanent plans never materialized and the Clipper was sold and taken to her new home in Hammond, Indiana in December, 1990. This photo was taken in July, 1991 by Institute member Daniel Carlson in July, 1991. Telescope is produced with assistance from the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, an agency of the Historical Department of the City of Detroit.