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MILWAUKEE Since 1852, Milwaukee Harbor has TUG LINE been served by the same line of tugs. Several generations of the Starke and Meyer families began and continued the line. In 1943 the Clarke Towing Co.took over. Here are the tugs of this region: 4 G.W.TIFFT, 1852 DEXTER, 1873 W.K.MINOR, 1862 E.D.HOLTON, 1874, IDA H.LEE, 1863 WELCOME,1, 1876 AMERICAn EAGLE, '65 W.H.SIMPSON, '89 EDW.L.ANTHONY, '69 C. ; ARL, 1 J.W.BERRILL, 1871 STARKE, 1889 Tugs WELCOME, W.H.MEYER, & DICK DAVIS, 1871 WELCOME,ii, '90 CONRAD STARKE at dock,1940 J.d.HAGERMAN, 1872 W.H.MEYER,1,'98 STARKE BROS. 1872 KNIGHT TEMPLAR,'90. All of those named above were wooden hulls. Four steel tugs which came later were: CONRAD STARKE, 1913 (later ROGER), W.H.MEYER,ii,1922 (later ADMIRAL), WELCOME,111,1925, and MILWAUKEE (ex DEARBORN; 1932). During most of their ninety years history, these tugs were white hulled with yellow cabins. Most of them were equipped with chimed whistles. The loss of the ADMIRAL, formerly the Milwaukee tug W.H.MEYER, on Lake Erie in 1942, was one of the latest tug disasters on the Lakes. KKK KK KK KK KR KK KR RK KK KKK KK KR RK KR KR KK KK RK KE SHIPS THAT THEODORE ROOSEVELT - Singie screw steel excursion steam- NEVER DIE er, built by Craig at Toledo in 1905, for Indiana Trans- (#14) portation Co., of Chicago. Dimensions: 289' length o.a., by 40' beam, and 16 ' draft. Triple expansion engines of five thousand horsepower with cylinders of 30', 48' and 56' diameter by 40' stroke, drove the vessel at a top speed of 24 m.p.h. Regular service e) consisted of two round trips daily between Chicago and Michigan City. Capacity, 3500 persons. The ROOSEVELT had white hull and cabins, two silver stacks, and two masts. In appearance this vessel resembled the CITY OF SOUTH HAVEN (DMH v.3, Poe the ill fated EASTLAND, the IROQUOIS and the propellor CHIPPEWA. The illuminated name "Roosevelt" was suspen- ded between the stacks, and made a striking sight at night. She operated continuously out of Chicago until World War I, when she was taken to the coast and served as an officers' training ship. She sailed on Lake Erie in the early twenties. In 1926 the Goodrich Transit Company bought the vessel, gave it a thorough rebuild, and used it for several seasons on the Milwaukee - Chicago day excursion, running opposite the CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. ROOSEVELT ran on Lake Michigan until 1942, when she was char- tered for a season by the local Bob Lo Line. Later in the Forties she carried excursions from Cleveland to Ceder Poiht for a few summers, after which aes : she returned to Lake Michi- gan. Recently the ship has lain idle at Benton Harbor and South Ha- ven. She will be broken up for scrap at Milwaukee this spring.