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SHIPS The EUGENE W.PARGNEY will have Diesel engines next season, & the HOMER D.WILLIAMS will have oil burning steam turbine engines. The J.J.SULLIVAN has received a complete rebuilt and new Skinner Uniflow engines during the past winter. The keel of the new Straits auto ferry was laid May 1. The canaller SCOTT MISENER has been renamed GEORGE M.CARL. The motorship DETROITER has been chartered for two years by Browning, for the Lake Erie steel trade. On Monday, May 8, the new Canadian freighter COVERDALE completed her first round trip, Midland to Fort William and back, with grain. Nicholson Transit has completed a new auto dock at Duluth, on Northern Pacific Pier #5. The EDWARD CHAMBERS (ex North Sea) is now owned bg the Polar Trading Co. of Seattle. The J.M.DAVIS (ex BOSTON) is now the CANOPUS of Buenos Aires. The C.T.JAFFRAY (ex MUNCY) is now the ROS LAGAN of Stock- holm. The H.A.SCANDRETT (ex NORTH STAR ii) is now the HAMINA of Helsin- ski, Finland. The TRISTAN, (ex PENOBSCOT, ex LAIRG) is now the LEPUS of MAnila, P.I. The DULUTH, trim package freighter of the old West- ern Transit fleet, is now at Seattle, waiting to be scrapped. (Note : ye will sb ened this vessel in the next issue, under "Ships That Never Die." Ed. OK OK OK OR KOK OK OK KOK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK KOK OK OK OK KOK KOK KK KOK WHALEBACKS, Continued. #135, Str.JOHN B.TREVOR, 308 ft, 1895. Later ATIKOKAN. #136, Str.FRANK ROCKEFELLER, 366 ’ 't,1895. Later SOUTH PARK it ’ & METEOR. In service. Bee, 345 ft,1896. In serv. Str.JOHN ERICSSON, 390 ft, e #139, Bge ALEXANDER HOLLEY, 361 #145 Str.CITY OF EVERETT, 365 ft, 1894, at At Str. JOHN B. TREVOR Lost, Gulf of Mexico . 201, Bge., 244 ft., 1897, later CASSIE.Stranded, S,ndy Hook, N.J.,1917. , Bge., 244 ft.,1897, later FANNIE, S,randed, Barnegat, N.J., 1908. Ke KR KK ROK KR KOK KK ROK ROR KOK KK KOK RK OK KK OK KK KK KK KK SHIPS THAT CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS Whaleback #128, steel single screw NEVER DIE excursion steamer, built at Superior by American Steel Barge (#15) Co, 1892. Dimensions 360 x 42, Speed 20 m.p.h.,Capacity, 5000 people. Built for World's Fair Steamship Co, as a ferry running between downtown Chicago, and the grounds of the World's Colum- bian Exposition at Jackson Park. Carried one stack amidships, two masts, and originally had two decks. Hull painted white, stack cream. From 1894 to 1898 ran day excursions to Milwaukee in competition with crack Goodrich flyer VIRGINIA. Bought out by Goodrich in 1898, and continued on this service through 1931. Good- rich added a third deck, and painted the vessel in their traditional black hull and red stack. Probably carried more people than any other Lakes ship. The "old CHRISTOHPER" is held in hal- lowed memory by the thousands who en- joyed her broad decks; am nothing can replaced her in their hearts.