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SHIPS Upper Lakes & St.Lawrence Line have sold the following canallers Cont'd. to Leitch Transports, Ltd., CHARLES R.HUNTLEY, JAMES STEWART, JOHN S.PILLSBURY, JUDGE KENEFICK and SHIRLEY G.TAYLOR. Sandland, Ltd. has sold the SANDLAND to Beaconsfield Steamships, Ltd. Socony Vacuum has sold the BURLINGTON SOCONY to Mathiesen Tanker Industries, Inc., who in turr have sold EVELYN ANNE to Poling Brothers. (Note: the latter seems to be the “ vessel listed in passages as POLING BROS.No.7). Great Lakes Towing Company have acquired the fireboat M.F.D.15 from the City of Milwaukee, and will con- vert it to a diesel towing tug at their Cleveland yards. The tug PETCO 21 recently acquired by Great Lakes Towing will be renamed with her original name NEW JERSEY. The Cleveland Power Squadron in their publication "Tele- scoop" named our fellow member Fred W.Dutton as "Man of the Month" for March. The fourth annual International Tugboat Race will be held at noon on Memorial Day, May 30th. It will start from a point outside the Empire Hanna Coal dock below the Ambassador Bridge and end opposite downtown Windsor. Capt.J.Earl McQueen is chairman of the race and Frank McALlister is chairman of the Canadian Committee. Station CKLW will broadcast the race with Art Lang anr- nouncing and Ken Smith assisting. WORK KOR ROK KOK KR ROK OK OK KOK OK KOK KOK KOK OK KOK KOK KK KK KOK KK OK K BOUTELL A prominent man in shipping circles on the Lakes around the turn FLEETS of the century was Mr.Benjamin Boutell of Bay City. He began his career as a tug commander on Saginaw Bay in 1869. Later he was partner in the towing firm Boutell & Mitchell, which operated tugs and schooner barges. In 1887 the firm dissolved, Mr.Mitchell taking the barges and Capt.Boutell the tugs and rafting business. Later Boutell founded the Saginaw Bay Towing Company, and still later the Saginaw Bay Transportation Company which operated wooden steamers and barges in the lumber and bulk freight trades. In the early years of the present century Capt.Boutell or- ganized the Boutell Steel Barge Company, which purchased twelve small whale- back vessels from the Pittsburgh Steamship Company, which were operated in the Lakes, canal and Ocean trade for several years thereafter. While the fol lowing listings of the Boutell fleets may have overlooked a few ships, they are as complete as our sources at hand indicate, and they show clearly the widespread extent of Capt.Boutell's marine undertakings. 1 _- The Saginaw Bay Towing Company: Tugs BOSCOBEL MUSIC SARAH SMITH CHARLTON NIAGARA SWEEPSTAKES LULU EDDY CHASE ae OSBORN TRAVELER ROBERT EMMET JOHN SEA GULL FLORENCE MARY EPr PIERCE R.H.WEIDMAN CHARLIE 0.SMITH LUTHER WESTOVER ANNIE MOILES ELLA M.SMITH WINSLOW PETER SMITH iconts next Brees) KOR ROR RR OR KOK OR KOK KOK OK OK OR OK OK OR OK OK KOK KOK OK KOK * Below: Tug ANNIE MOILES, Right: Str.D.LEUTY.