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ANNOUNCEMENT: As stated in the last Marine Historian, there will be no meeting this year in the month of December. However, the January meeting has been moved up two weeks and will be held on Wednesday the 13th at: the University w of Detroit Library, when Captain Thomas Allen, Commander of the freighter WILLIAM EDENBORN, will tells us about the life of a captain. Mark this date now and plan to begin thenew year in true Marine Saciety style. In the name of the President of the Society and of your officers, The Betroit Marine Historian extends to all our members most cordial wishes for happiness and success in the year ahead and a true Merry Christmas. wR KK KK OK OK ROK OK KOK KR OK OK KOK OK KOK OK OK OK OK KOK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK KK OK OK MASTHEAD Our masthead cut this month portrays the old wodden sidewheeler JAY COOKE, built in 1868 at Detroit for the Detroit and Islands service. This ship was rebuilt in 1888 as the CITY OF SANDUSKY, and was scrapped in 1895, when her beam engines went into the new steel ARROW, (DMH v. 2,no.5). The cut is taken from an old letterhead. Going back to our letterhead of last March (V.6, no.7), showing a Saguenay River scene, our fellow member Bob Shepherd of Como, Quebec, an outstanding authority on St.Lawrence River rraft, points out the similarity of the ship shown therein to the Lake Ontario str: TORONTO (see DMH,v.4, no. 5 for picture of TORONTO). Apparently the artist decided a Saguenay cape would be 0.K. as a backdrop. We are grateful for this comment and for Mr. Shepherd's very encouraging praise of your Editor's humble efforts. * RK OK OK KK KK KK KOK OK KK KK KOK KK OK KK KKK KK KK KK KK KK SHIPS The COL.E.M.YOUNG (ex E.M.YOUNG, ex HOOVER and MASON), has been sold to Browning, and will have her boom removed and will operate as a straight bulk freighter under the fame of SPARKMAN FOSTER. Browning has alscy) acquired the former Hanna freighters DAVID M.WEIR (ex Edward A.Uhrig, ex SHELDON PARKS) and THOMAS MILLSOP (ex GEORGE R.FINK,i,ex J.J.TURNER, ex J.Q. RIDDLE). No new names mentioned as yet. The JAY C.MORSE is at Lorain for new forward cabins. Scrapping of the freighter AMAZON has been begun at Buffalo. The work of conversion into bulk freighters has been begun on the IMPERIAL WOODBEND at Humberstone, and on the IMPERIAL REDWATER at Collingwood. IMPERIAL LEDUC is presently under charter to British-American Oil, Ltd. The hull under construction at Collingwood, which was begun as another super tanker, and then finished as a bulk freighter for Canada Steamship Lines, may, according to reliable sources, be named GEORGIAN BAY. The Pittsburgh freighters D.M.CLEMSON and WILLIAM A McGONAGLE are being repowered this winter at the Rouge. A new after cabin on the upper deck ("dog house") will be built on the Nicholson freighter PERSEUS (ex FRANK J.HECKER) this winter. KOR KOK RR OR OK ROK OK OK OK OR KOR OK OK OK OR ROR OR OK RO KOK KK KOK OR OR OK OK KOK Two speedy sister freighters of the Nineties: SAXON (left) and ROMAN.