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Page 31 THE MILWAUKEE CLIPPER BOAT OF THE FUTURE by HOWARD H. PETERSON During 1905 construction was completed at the American Ship Building Company in Cleveland of the 346-foot steamship Juniata The vessel was built for the Anchor Line to carry passengers and freight between Buffalo, New York and Duluth, MN. The route was changed in 1933 and 1934 to run between Buffalo and Chicago to attend the "Century of Progress" World's Fair at Meiggs Field. Juniata was named after a river in central Pennsylvania. She was laid up in 1935. It wasn't long before Detroit industrialists Max B. McKee and his brother, Mark, had other ideas for the aging Juniata. As operators of the Wisconsin and Michigan Steamship Company, they needed a new boat to replace the Illinois, then running between Muskegon and Milwaukee. Laurenz Hansen of the New York marine architectural firm George Shape was contracted to head the design changes for the Juniata. In 1937 the million dollar metamorphosis began at the Manitowoc Shipbuilding yards for what was to become the Milwaukee Clipper. In 1940 the new owners had completed the most extensive marine reconstruction project ever attempted on the Great Lakes up to that time. The only recognizable feature of the old boat was the unaltered near vertical straight stem bar. The Clipper was lengthened by extending the stem to a total length of 361'. On June 2, 1941, after making her maiden voy- The JUNIATA was built in 1910 by the Anchor Line to carry passengers and freight between Buffalo, New York and Duluth, MN.