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ANNOUNCEMENT On Wednesday, November 25th, the evening before Thanksgiving, at 8 p.m. we will meet in Room 311, the small auditorium, of the University of Detroit Library, at the McNichols-Livernois campus. We will have the opportunity to see a series of movies of recent Great Lakes launchings which will be shown by Capt., Tom Candler, of Candler and Rusche, Most of these movies were taken from the tugs of our fellow member, Capt. Frank Becker, who always knows how to maneuver into the best vantage point. As an added attraction, Mr. Fred Kolowich will show us many of the travel movies taken for the D.&C.Lines. All who have seen these recommend them. This meeting provides us with a chance to relive the glorious days of the D.&C. ships, and to watch launchings from a dry spot. Come, and invite your friends. Because past experience has shown the December meeting to be sometimes inconvenient due to the nearness of the Holidays, we are not scheduling one for December this year. Our subsequent meeting then, will be on January 13th, when our fellow member, Capt. Tom Allen of Lakewood, Ohio, Commander of the freighter WILLIAM EDENBORN, will tell us some of the interesting details of the life of a commander in the Pittsburgh Fleet. Do not forget to mark that date on your 1954 calendar. #*% FORE OK RR. FORK, IE 3 2B KK SHIPS The MARYLAND (ex ARTHUR %. NEWBOLD, ex JAMES CORRIGAN) has been sold to Buckeye S.S.Co. The newest unit of Canada Steamship Lines, the bulk freighter #.R.McLAGAN, was launched at Midland, Ont., November 7. Hull #149, unnamed, at Collingwood shipyards, also for C.S.L., is expected to be launched late this month. The new vessel now under construction at Port Weller for Colonial Steamships, Ltd., will be 685 ft. long, by 72 ft. beam, an 37 ft., moulded depth. No name announced yet. The motorship DETROIT, acquir last summer by the Arnold Line, has been renamed IROQUOIS. A large steel tug, ISLAND CREEK, 271 gross tons, has been completed by Sturgeon Bay SB & DD Co. The steam tug FREDERICK T. KELLERS (ex HARVEY D. GOULDER) has been sold by Michigan Limestone Division to Port Huron buyers. The new Norwegian freighter PUTENFJELL has made her maiden voyage into the lakes. This ship, ~ built at Sunderland, Englend, carries the name of a former Fjell Line steam freighter. The converted C-4 McKEE SONS (ex MARINE ANGEL) is now in service as a self-unloader in the Boland & Cornelius fleet. Her dimensions are 633 x 71.6. Our fellow member, Capt. J.Harl McQueen, is busy working on the sunken German feighter WALLSCHIFF, which lies in the St. Clair River near Sarnia. West Michigan Shipyards, Inc., has been organized at Muskegon, and will be equipped to do major topside repair work on Great Lakes ships, and also pro- vide extensive winter berthing space. OK OR OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK KOK OF * Ok AOR OK KOK ROK KOK OR KOK ROK OK KOR OK OK Below: The steamer ALEXANDER McDOUGALL and the barge MATA