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Page 143 FAYETTE BROWN IS BREAKING UP by SKIP GILLHAM Special to Telescope Well over one hundred ships have left the Great Lakes for overseas scrapping since the St. Lawrence Seaway opened in 1959. Some headed to European docks including those in Germany, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom while others were consigned to Mediterranean centers around Italy and Turkey. A few lakers went to South American and West Indies destinations while others made the long trip to the Far East. Then, there were the obsolete lakers that did not make it. They were lost enroute, victims of a wild storm that may have broken a tow line, ripped off hatch covers, put the ship in the merciless trough or simply broke her in two before sinking. One, Fayette Brown (ii), came ashore and stayed put. Now, thirty-three years after her arrival off the coast of Anticosti Island, the ship has begun to break up. For many years, photos of the rusting hull showed her intact, but recent views from August 1997 reveal that the relentlessness of the elements are taking their toll. This was the second ship to carry the name of Fayette Brown. It honored a prominent Cleveland industrialist associated with banking, machinery, iron ore and chemical companies. An earlier Fayette Brown, a composite hull bulk carrier, was launched at Wyandotte, Michigan, May 14, 1887. It was renamed Omega in 1911 and FAYETTE BROWN in Interlake colors. Photo by Peter Worden/Dossin Museum Coll.