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SHIPS THAT DULUTH - Steel, single screw package freighter, built at ER DIE South Chicago in 1903 by Chicago Shipbuilding Co. for the (#16) Western Transit Company. Dimensions, 402 ft length o.a., 50 ft beam, & 30 ft depth, 11 hatches and 6 gangways on , each side, Pilot house behind the #1 hatch. Two tall raking masts,one g forward and one amidships, and one stack astern. DULUTH was identical in size and appearance with BUFFALO, 1901,(later P.E.CROWLEY, later KURRIKA), SUPERIOR, 1905, (later RALPH BUDD), and ROCHESTER, 1907, (later ALFRED H.SMITH, later QUINTERO), ell of which were of the same fleet. Similar in appearance were the 345 foot trio, CHICAGO, 1901, MILWAUKEE, 1902, and UTICA, 1904, (later QUINTOY), and the 370 foot BOSTON, 1913, (later J.M.DAVIS, later CANOPUS). All of the Western Transit (New York Central Ry.)ships had light brown hulls, white cabins, tall yellow spars, and black stacks with wide orange band. In 1915 the ships of this fleet as well as of most of the other railway lake lines passed into the ownership of the Great Lakes Transit Corporation of Buffalo. Until 1925 all the G.L.T.C.ships were painted in the old Western Line colors, while afterthat they carried the colors of the Pennsylvania freighters, while and green hulls, white cabins and c rim- son funnels. -Our illustration shows the DULUTH in this paint job - taken at Milwaukee, about 1930. DULUTH was one of the few package freighters which was never renamed. Requisitioned by the War Shipping Administration in 1942, DULUTH and several other package freighters were taken to Salt water via Chicago and the Mississippi and rebuilt for war duty. DULUTH servéd as a cargo carrier and repair ship on the Pac- ific until recently, and is now laid up at Seattle, where she will soon be broken up. To the best of your editor's knowledge there are three, or possibly four of the old Western Line package freighters still on the lakes, namely the CHARLES DONNELLY (ex Troy, 1898) now carrying automobiles for Nicholson, the RABPH BUDD (ex SUPERIOR, 1905) now in ) the Upper Lakes and St.Lawrence fleet, the sandsucker K.V.SCHWARTZ (ex SYRACUSE, 1884), and, if she is still going, the Canadian tanker MAPLEBRANCH, formerly the ARABIA which was the Western Line's first iron ship, built at Buffalo in 1873. A few others are still afloat on Salt water. (Note: See DMH, Vol 2, n.8, April, 1949, fora complete list of the ships of this fleet.) KOR KK KK KOK OK SUNK Newspaper reports recorded recently ; the sinking in New York harbor in a coliision of the <e" SANDCRAFT. This ‘[. vessel was built at Chicago in 1918 as the LAKE CLEAR, a World War I "laker". In the earlt Twenties she a 2% Lacs Nuva Cavs! | r was rebuilt as a “3 = " : sandsucker and : ouLutH fei used for many years on the South Shore Drive constructio: at Chicago, with her sister ship SANDMASTER (ex LAKE WEIR). Both ships went to the coast