The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Page 90 Italy. John J. Barlum (US 206279). April 20, 1909, Lorain: American Shipbuilding (368). 524'0" x 54'0" x 30'21/4" (504.0 x 54.0 x 30.0). 6419 GT; 4924 NT. Engine and boilers same as Sylvania. The Barlum also entered service in May, for the Postal Steamship Company, of Detroit, managed by the man for whom she was named. In 1923, the owners were restyled the Barlum Steamship Company. The Barlum and her only fleetmate were sold between the 1934 and 1935 seasons to The Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway Company, of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. She was renamed Algocen (i), (C 158164), and readmeasured at 512.5 x 54.2 x 26.7; 6893 gross tons and 5032 net tons. Alterations made during a rebuild of her cargo hold in 1948 changed her tonnages to 6904 and 5031. Two use coal-fired Scotch boilers, which had been built in 1940, were fitted in the Algocen in 1953. While she was leaving the Wyandotte Channel of the Detroit River, and turning to proceed down the Fighting Island Channel, on June 15,1964, thq Algocen struck the British motor vessel Phrygia. The latter sustained a large hold in her port side, but damage to the Algocen was minor. In April of 1968, The Algoma Central Railway, as her owners had been renamed in 1965, sold the Algocen to Steel Factors. Resold to Recuperaciones Submarinas, she arrived at Santander on July 8,1968, along with the 524-foot Hillsdale (a. Caldera). Isaac M. Scott (US 206485). June 12, 1909, Lorain; American Shipbuilding (369). 524'0" x 54'0" x 30'21/4" (504.0 x 54.0 x 30.0). 6372 GT; 4840 NT. Engine and boilers same as Sylvania. The Scott left the Lorain shipyard on July 10th to begin a short and tragic career. Two days later she struck the steamer John B. Cowle (i) in heavy fog a mile north of Whitefish Point on Lake Superior. She cut so deeply into the 440-foot Cowle that the latter, loaded with iron ore, sank in three minutes, taking with her fourteen of her twenty-four crewmen. The Scott herself suffered damage that cost $30,000 to repair. The Scott passed Port Huron upbound at five o'clock on the morning of Sunday, November 9, 1913, carrying a cargo of coal and a crew of twenty-eight men. Northwest storm warnings had been posted, but the weather was fair and clear. A moderate wind had just sprung up from the west. In 1963 Gartland requested bids to convert the WOLF to an unmanned barge similar to the WILTRANCO I. The WILTRANCOI wasn't successful and the conversion plan was dropped. Pete Worden Photo/Dossin Mus.