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Page 144 FAYETTE BROWN aground off Anticosti Island. Glenmount in 1917. The latter was broken up for scrap near Midland about 1928. The second Fayette Brown was built by the American Shipbuilding Company and launched at Lorain, Ohio, March 19, 1910. The vessel sailed in May as the first Charles L. Hutchinson (US 207345). The ship was noted as owned by Henry Wineman and operated by the Raleigh Steamship Company. This vessel was one of the class of 504 x 54 foot freighters that were popular in that day. These ships were ideal for the ore, coal and grain trade and many survived well into the Seaway era, particularly those converted to self-unloaders. Fayette Brown was registered at 6377 gross tons, 4860 net and able to carry about 10,000 tons of cargo per trip. In November, 1916, this ship was sold. It resumed trading the next spring as Fayette Brown of the Brown Transit Company and worked mainly for the Stewart Furnace Company in the bulk trades. Stewart Furnace acquired the vessel outright in 1926 and she moved to the Youngstown SS Co. in 1929 and Interlake Steamship in 1930. By all accounts, this ship was a dependable carrier and I have no record of any serious accident during her half century of trading on the Great Lakes. Her cargo duties varied, but a look at the 1952 season provided a glimpse of her activities. Fayette Brown started the season clearing Ashtabula April 4 and laid up at Erie December 8. For the year the vessel travelled 34,944 miles of which 23,721 were with cargo while 11,273 were light. She hauled thirty-three payloads for the year and delivered a total of 301,957 tons to customer docks for an average of 9,150 tons per trip. Ore was the most popular commodity with twenty payloads brought aboard. These loaded at Superior (7), Escanaba (4), Ashland (3), Duluth (3), and Marquette (3). The discharge ports for ore were South Chicago (6), Cleveland (4), Toledo (3), Buffalo (2), Erie (2), plus Indiana Harbor, Conneaut and Tonawanda. The eleven shipments of coal came aboard at Toledo (7), Sandusky (4) and South Chicago (2). Interestingly, South Chicago also received coal with four loads consigned to that port. In addition the coal was delivered to Duluth (4), Marquette (2) and Superior (1). Finally, two cargoes of stone were earned from Port Inland to Buffalo to round out the year. Fayette Brown ended her regular service and tied up at Erie in July, 1960. She was sold to Marine Salvage of Port Colborne in 1963 and that company hoped to resell the hull for Canadian use as a number of Photo by Capt. Hubert Hall