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EARLY The recently announced plan to replace the lightship HURON LIGHTSHIP with a radar beacon, will remove the last lightship from the Lakes. More than a century ago, in 1832, to be exact, an experiment was made in placing a lightship near the western entrance to the Straits of Mackinac. This first attempt was not successful, and ell mariners sought to have the little craft replaced by a lighthouse. The Michigan (territorial) Legisiattve Council efidorsed the replacement in a@ memorial dated January 22, 1835, at Detroit, because " she (the light- ship) has several times, either from the high winds or the heavy seas which roll into this strait from Lake Michigan, been driven from her moor- ing, and compelled to leave the strait." The memorial propsséd that the lightship be placed in a less ex- posed position at the mouth of the Detroit River, and that the lighthouse be erected on Point Waugoshance, or on the reef near it, where the ship had originally been stationed. t the same time, an appropriation was sought for improvements in Mackinaw harbor, and it was noted that several years earlier the two capes of the harbor had been destroyed by the swells from Lake Huron, The memorial was presented to Congress, from where it went to the House Committee on Commerce. (From Michigan Territorial Papers, Vol.XII, p.853) Haviland F.Reves OR RR OK KR RK KO KR OK OK OK OR OK OK OR OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK KOK OK OK OK OK KK OK OK OK SHIPS THAT INDIANA - Wooden propellor, 220 x 35, built at Manitowoc, NEVER DIE Wisconsin in 1890 by Burger and Burger for the Goodrich (#19) Transportation Co. of Chicago. One stack amidships and two steel pole masts with gaff booms. Black hull, white cabins, red stack with black top. Equipped with a sonorous chimed whistle which was characteric of all Goodrich liners. Flew her owners' house flag, a white double pointed pennant, with red letters "G.T.Co." from the gaff of the foremast. INDIANA was designed as a night boat, with accom- modattions for 200 passengers and hold space for better than 1000 tons of package frefght. She bore a close resemblance in size and design to her contemporary sister Goodrich liners CITY OF RACINE (later ARIZONA), built in 1889, ATLANTA, 1891, and IOWA, 1896. There is a fine line draw- ing of the INDIANA in the monumental work of Samuel Ward Stanton, "Amer- ican Steam Vessels." A good sea boat, and fairly fast, about 14 m.p.h., INDIANA gave 39 reliable years of both summer and winter service before being retired to reserve status in 1929. Her main routes were between Chicago and Milwaukee, and Chicago to Grand Haven and Muskegon. However, with all of the larger Goodrich vessels, she made occasional longer cruises to Green Bay, the Straits, and Sault Ste.Marie. After her retire- ment, she lay idle at Manitowoc until the = middle Thirties when she was purchased by a contracting firm & used for housing work- ers near the Soo. While the nearby Livingstone Channel was being improved ‘fhe INDIANA and her former sister ARIZONA were both used for housing and offices. After that INDIANA was partially dismantled, and rumors indicate that her bones rest somewhere near Monroe,