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SHIPS THAT NEVER DIE Editor's Note: It is our conviction that we will do well to go away from Great Lakes ships occasionally. This month we feature a ship well known on Long Island Sound and Chesapeake Bay, writ- ten by our fellow member, John L.Loch~ head, Librarian, Mar- iners' Museum,Newport News, Va. ELISHA LEE In Noven- ber, 1953, the Penn- Sylvania ferry Steam- er ELISHA LEE which had operated on the Cape Charles - 01d Point Comfort - Norfolk route since 1944 was towed to Baltimore to be scrapped. Built in 1892 as RICHARD PECK at Wilmington, Delaware by Harlan & Hollingsworth, for the New Haven Steamboat Company, she early acquired a reputation for speed which she kept until her last trip, veneer 28, 1953. Her dimensions were 303' x 48'x 17', 2900 gross tons, 1819 net. Two stacks. Hull had steel plating over iron frames. Designed by A.Cary Smith, she was the first steamboat on Long I,land Sound to have twin screws. Other innovations were her dining saloon én the top deck aft of the pillt house; six boilers instead of four; and her unusually broad beam. _ She spent many years on the New Haven and Providence runs to New York, and /( when the New Haven Railroad disposed of its steamboats, she plied several sult mers as an excursion steamer between New York and Bridgeport. She saw service during the war as s barracks ship in Newfoundland. In 1944 the War Shipping Administration chartered her to the Pennsylvania Railroad which tore out many of her staterooms for the ferry run and renamed her ELISHA LEE. She performed very capably during the extremely busy war years, and was popular with her passengers and crew. Our illustration shows her nearing her Norfolk dock, October 31, 1949. Drindling rail traffic on Pennsylvania's line between New York and Cape Charles and the expense of operating the ELISHA LEE which re- quired two crews were in part responsible for the Railroad's decision to aban: don the ferry route and send the ELISHA LEE to the scrap heap. She was the last surviving member of the once great fleet of Long Island overnight passen- ger steamboats. KOR OK RR ROK OK ROR KOK OK OK OK OK ROK ROK OR OK ROR OK KR OK OK OK ROK OK OK OK K SHIPS The new motorship DUNDFE, 2950 dwt was luanched Dec.18 at Burntis- Cont'd. land, Scotland, for the Dundee, Perth and London Shipping Co.,. Ltd., and is designed for the Great Lakes - St.Lawrence trade, to run with her sister ships LONDON, LUNAN and PERTH. Machinery aft, consisting of a British Polar diesel engine. DUNMORE HEAD, owned by Uyster Shipping Co., which was built in 1943 at Sturgeon Bay as CLEMENT T.JAYNE, has been sold to Backers Rederi A/S, Kristiansand, Norway. The hull of the sidewheeler HAMIL- TONIAN (ex CHAMPION ) is being broken up at Hamilton. The CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS still remains intact. KOK OR RK KR OK ROR KR OR OK OK ROK OK KOK KOK OK OK OR OR OK KOK OK OK KOK OK OK OK OK OK CORRECTION Please add to Mr.Poole's list of foreign ers to the Lakes, = which we published in our last issue, the SVANHODM,which made oi) trip last season. We ommitted this name by error. eR RK KOK OK KOK * OR RK OK RK OR KOR OK KK OK ROK OK OK EXHIBIT The Detroit Historical Society will wave a display of water color paintings of Great a ships during the month of March, at its main museum, Woodward at Kirb