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Che Detroit Marine Historian JOURNAL OF MARINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DETROIT, INC. - Robert A. Zeleznik, Pres. John C. Goodrich, Vice Pres. 2015 Dime Building, 4328 Adams Court, Detroit 26, Michigan Wayne, Michigan John E. Poole, Secretary 8236 Ford Ave., Van Dyke, Michigan John R. Campbell, Treasurer 1575 Cleveland, Lincoln Park, Michigan Kenneth E. Smith, Publications Manager Editor - in - Chief 153 Monterey, University of Detroit, Highland Park 3, Michigan Volume 7, No.6 - February,1954 Detroit 21, Michigan Rey. Edward J. Dowling, S. J. OR OR OR OK RR OR OK OK OR OK OR OR OK OR OR OK OK OK OR OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK KK OK OK OK OK KK OK OK Fleet of the GOODRICH TRANSIT COMPANY 1856 - 1933 The SHEBOYGAN, 1869 Photo by Capt.Carus This line was established in 1856 by Capt.Albert E.Goodrich, a native of New Buffalo, Michigan, as the A.E.Goodrich Steamboat Line operating between Chi- cago and Milwaukee. Service was later extended to many Lake Michigan ports, as well as to the Soo and Georgian Bay. In the first decade the vessels had white hulls, afterwards black. Stack, red with black top, cabins white. Flag, a double pointed white pennant with red letters G.T.Co. We are listing the Goodrich ships in chronological order, showing first the date of acquisition or build, then the name, foljowed by other data. Our masthead illustration for this month depicts the Goodrich sidewheeler NORTHWEST, built in 1867. »/1856 HURON Wooden sidewheeler, built by Ward at Newport, Michigan in 1852, 348 tons. This ship was abandoned in 1877. 1858 OGONTZ Wooden propellor, 1848, Ohio cg 0., the tons. Reduced : to sailing vessel, 1861. Engines to UNION 1860 COMET Wooden sidewheeler, 1869 Newport, by Ward. 350 tons. Junked, 1870, engines going into CORONA. (Cont'd.,p.3)