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MARINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DETROIT, INC. ; ANNOUNCEMENT: On Saturday, May lst, we will have our annual Dinner Meeting at the Norton Palmer Hotel in Windsor. We will have as our ™ speaker of the evening Captain Frank Becker. We are! having this meeting in w Windsor in honor of Windsor's 160th Anniversary. The Norton Palmer Hotel is approximately two blocks from the Windsor terminal ofthe Tunnel Bus Line. Busses run frequently. Dinner will be served at 6 P.M. The price will be $2.25 which will include tip. Tickets will be purchased at the door. Please return the enclosed card as soon as possible, and make sure that it reaches your President not later than Wednesday, April 28th. Plan now to attend, and invite your fréends. Our June meeting will be held at the Fort Malden Museum at Amherstburg on Saturday, June 12th. Dana Thomas Bowen will be the speaker. John E.Poole, Secretary RR RK KR KR RR KR OK RK KOK ROR ROK OR KOK KOR OR OK RK KOK ROR OK OK KOK OK POINT OF Our Treasurer has asked us to remind our members again that INFORMATION as of this year dues for membership in the Society (which in- cludes subscription to the Detroit Marine Historian) are Two Dollars. All are asked to be mindful of this, especially when making Payment by mail. Much ry correspondence and book will be elimina- ted if all remember this. KKK RK ORR RR ROK ROR OK RK KK ROK KR ROR OK OK KOK ROK ROK OK KOK OK KOK NOMINATING At the March meeting the Nominating Committee reported the COMMITTEE nominations to date, namely, Thomas B.Dance Oscar Gregoire, Donald Baut and Frank McAllister. Subsequentiy the names of George Lauhoff and Capt.Sid Ferriss have been added. Members of the Soci- ety are urged to make their désire in this matter known promptly. “4 eREKEHR ERE RKEK RK KEK RE KKK KR KR KR KE KK KR EK RK MASTHEAD John Poole contributed this month's masthead drawing of the well remembered Toledo excursion steamer CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE. This wooden sidewheeler was built in 1874 at Tranton, Mich., and operated on Toledo and Islands run. Gross peDnace Mie OR Ok Oe Oe * KOK RK KK OK KOK OK KK OK OK OK ROK SHIPS pan i nearing completion at rm Weller will be named SCOTT MIS- iii). The present SCOTT MISENER is to be renamed JOHN E.F.MIS- ENER. =. a) LIEUT.JOHN MISENER (ex PORTWELL) will be H.S.WYATT. The MATHEWSTON will become RALPH S.MISENER (ii). The present RALPH S.MISENER (ex FATRLAKE) will be the C.A.ANSELL. The VISCOUNT BENNET (ex BERRYTON, ex B.F.BERRY) will be the C.A.BENNETT. The converted former tanker IMPERIAL REDWATER will be named R.BRUCE ANGUS. The CORNELL will be renamed NEPTUNE, and the MALIETOA will become MERCURY. The steam tug HENRY STOKES (ex LaRoy Brooks) is now the diesel ABERG. The STEEL KING (ex DELOS W.COOKE, ex STAR- RUCCA - See DMH,Vol7, No.5) has been sold to L.D.WElls Construction Co. ,& will be cut down to a barge and used for heavy construction work. Paterson Steamships, Ltd. has bought the canallers DAMIA and SARACEN. No word on re- names at present. The Interlake freighter C.S.ROBINSON (ex LOFTUS CUDDY) has been sold to Steinbrenner. Ships of six Canadian companies will be pobled to carry approximately 2,000,000 tons of ore from Sept Iles, Quebec to Great Lakes ports this season. The fleets involved are C.S.L.,Paterson, Colonial, Upper Lakes, Hall and eRe Te bons: The Interlake freighter ODANAH and the Pittsburghers SAMUEL F.B.MORSE and GENERAL ORLANDO M.POE have been sold to Wyandotte Transportation Co. All three are expected to be converted @ to barges. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co are building a new 80 foot steel w diesel tug and two steel dump scows. The JOSEPH H.FRANTZ of Columbia Trans- portation Co. will be repowered next winter at G.L.Engineering Works' Rouge Yard. The Canadian tanker POPLARBRANCH (ex SPRINGBANK PARK) has been put up for sale on an "as is, where is" basis, at Limon Bay, Cristobal, Canal Zone. No indications as to cause of apparent damage to ship.