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The installment on the Pittsburgh Fleet which i u appears on the preceding pages concludes our list of the "Silver Stackers." As we close, we take this opportunity to acknowledge the re- - ceipt of Pittsburgh's recently established et monthly bulletin "Sidelights", a well written, well illustrated afd highly creditable publication. "Sidelights" appeard for the first time this summer. Our congratulations to Editor Jack Yewell and our best wishes for this most worthy undertaking. We neéd more journals like "Sidelights." ORK KOR KOK OK OK OK KOK KOK OK OK OK OK OK KOK KOK OK OK OK KOK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK SHIPS THAT NEVER DIE, No.51 STARRUCCA - Steel package freighter, built in 1897 at Buffalo by the Union Drydock Company for the Union Steamboat Line, which was the | Great Lakes subsidiary of the Erie Railroad. Dimensions 2k6 o.a. by 44 by 29; 3114 gross tons, 2117 net. One stack aft and two high masts amidships and forward. Black hull, yellow-orange cabins, ped stack with black top and black and white Erie diamond. Pilot house and texas behind the No.1 hatch. Operated in her owners' fast freight service, largely between Buffalo and Chicago, with occasional trips to Lake Superior. Our photo, above left, was taken eat the Soo in 1907 by Young. In 1913 her name was changed to DELOS W.COOKE. In the winter of 1915-1916 she became part of the fleet of the Great Lakes Transit Corporation (see DMH, v.6,no.10). She continued in service until the middle Thirties when the package freight business began to slack off. After several years of inactivity the vessel was sold to a Chi- cago junk dealer and taken to South Chicago, where after nearly a year, she was resold to Nicholson Transit Company and rebuilt as a bulk carrier for the grain trade with provisions for carrying autos on the upper deck. She was renamed STEEL KING. For a few years in the Forties she was equipped as a crane ship and used in the finished steel, scrap and pig iron trade. In 1950 her cranes were removed and she reverted to her former business. Always a trim and speedy ship, she gave 56 years to the Great Lakes. On December llth, last, she made what will in all probability be her last trip when, after unloading her cargo at Nicholson's rock in Ecorse, she steamed up to her winter berth at the foot of Lycaste Street in Detroit, where she awaits delivery to the ship breakers. With her departure another of the package freighters will have gone to join "The Vanishing Fleets". - - or better, in the words of Tennyson,"Aad the Stately Ships Sail on to their Haven un- der the Hill." E.J.D. ROR RRR OR OR OR KOR KOR OK OR ORR ROR OK KR ROK ROR KR KKK KR KR KR KK RK SS REMINDER Our first bound volume, "Ships That Never Die" may be purchased for $1.25 from Ken Smith, 153 Monterey, Highland Park 3. The present edition, is a second printing of the volume, not a new book in the matter of contents, as some have thought. Get yours while they last.