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Page 114 MEMBERSHIP NOTES • Visitors to the Dossin Museum during the opening of the William Clay Ford's pilothouse in 1992 remember seeing the unsightly cement foundation. We are glad to report that Peponis Tile Company has been working in August to cover the entire cement foundation with white 8-inch tile. Next year the museum will install the Ford's lifeboat on the lawn outside DeRoy Hall and also try to have a set of nameboards installed on the pilothouse, finally completing the restoration project that was begun in 1986. MEETING NOTICES • The annual Curator Robert E. Lee Dinner will be held on Friday, September 24,1993 at the St. Clair Inn. Our guest speaker will be Charles Conrad, owner of the Lake Michigan Carferry. The next entertainment meeting will be Saturday, November 20th at 11:00 a.m. at Dossin Museum with Gordon Bugbee showing slides on passenger ships. CONTENTS • Membership Notes, Meeting Notices, etc. Bay City Seaway Terminal Notes on Two Early Revenue Cutters Whaleback Passenger Ship Christopher Columbus Great Lakes & Seaway News Greta Lakes Calendar and Back Cover Picture Published at Detroit, Michigan by GREAT LAKES MARITIME INSTITUTE All rights reserved. Printed in the United States by Macomb Printing, Inc. OUR COVER PICTURE... The lithograph titled "50's Greyhounds" by marine artist Paul LaMarre, Jr. has captured a by-gone era on the Lakes. Both vessels began their careers as C-4 type cargo ships for World War II service. Later the Louis McHenry Howe would be rebuilt, lengthened and converted to a bulk freighter at Maryland Drydock Co. in Baltimore and renamed Tom M. Girdler in 1951. Boat watchers viewed the Girdler carrying ore and coal to steel mills along the lower lakes until she was towed overseas for scrap in 1981. The Marine Star was converted to a passenger-ferry ship at Todd Shipyards Corporation in Brooklyn, New York in 1955 and renamed Aquarama in 1956. Originally used on the Detroit to Cleveland run, she was withdrawn from service after the 1962 season and wintered in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Today she is docked in Windsor Ontario, awaiting an uncertain future. This print is available at the museum for $60.00 Telescope is printed with assistance from the Dossin Great Lakes Museum, an agency of the Historical Department of the City of Detroit. 114 by Capt. Lawson Browne 115 by Isabella E. Swan 119 124 Edited by Don Richards 127 135