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SHIPS THAT CORALIA - } NEVER DIE Steel bulk (#55) freighter, built 1896 at Cleveland by Globe Shipbuilding Co. for the Mutual Transportation Co., of Escanaba. Dimen- sions, 432 0.a. x 48 x 28, 4330 gwoss, 3351 nt. Triple Se ee engines, 23, 39 & 63" dia by 42° stroke. 13 hatches.Hull extra stiff and strong. Forward cabin and pilot house behind the second hatch. Two masts and one tall stack. Original, colors, black hull with white stripe, dark brown cabins with white trim, black stack with white globe on sides. Her name, afte1 the wife of L.C.Hanna, Manager of the fleet, was decided upon five minutes be- fore she was launched, and was not painted upon the ship until after she was in the water. She was the largest ship on the Lakes at the time of her com- pletion. Her first cargo, 4869 net tons of ore loaded at Escanaba, was the largest of any kind ever carried up to that time. In hull and machinery she was a duplicate of the SIR WILLIAM SIEMENS and SIR HENRY BESSEMER. In 1901 the vessels of the Mutual fleet became part of the Pittsburgh Steamship Co, and thus the CORALIA became a "tin stacker." Around 1920 she was rebuilt with. new pilot house on the forecastle and her deckhouse placed atop the after cabin, immediately behind the stack. This may have been the first example of @ the present day practice of placing the proverbial "dog house" in this positio In 1927 CORALIA was sold to Nicholsen-Universal S.S.Co. and rebuilt as an auto carrier. She went back to the bulk trade during the war, and in 1946 became part of the T.H.Browning S.S.Co. She was renamed T.H.BROWNING in 1950, and L.D.BROWNING in 1952. In the winter of 1953-54 she was equipped as an oil bur- ner, having the equipment which had previously served in the PUT IN BAY and THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Still going strong after almost sixty years. OK KR ROKK OK KR RK KOK OK OK OK OK OK OK KOK OK OK OK KK KR KOK OK OK KK OK OK KOK OK KOK SHIPS The first vessel to pass upbound through the Soo Locks was the STAR- BEL (ex IMPERIAL COBOURG, ex IMPEROYAL) of Powell Transports, Ltd., on April 13. The first downbound vessel thpough was the D.C.EVEREST of Marathon Paper Mills, Ltd. E.B.Magee, Ltd. of Port bgt home is expanding its yard to include a new shipway for launching canal sizé vessels, and are already at work on a new canaller for Beaconsfield Steamships, Ltd. This yard is also making the conversion of the tanker IMPERIAL WOODBEND into the freigh- ter GOLDENUHIND. The DAMIA, recently purchased by Paterson,is now the second COTEAUDOC, and the SARACEN is now the TORONDOC, also gecond of the name. Both the GEORGIAN BAY and T.R.McLAGAN of C.S.L. are in operation. The freighter HENRY LaLIBERTE is now operating for Buckeye S.S.Co. She is the former Beth- lehem MARYLAND. The AMAZON and NEGAUNEE have been reduced to scrap at Buffalo, and the CHACORNAC, COLONEL, MUNISING and YOSEMITE are in the process of being scrapped there. The first over seas freighter to put into Port Stanley in 14 years was the new TEESWOOD of Constantine Lines. The winner of the fifth International Tugboat Race was the ATOMIC of Amherstburg, owned by our; fellow member, Capt.Enmgyl McQueen. Congratulations again. Rumors are strong concerning service betweem Detroit and Cleveland by a converted C-4, named, in one report, AQUARAMA. We suspect this ship is the present MARINE STAR, awaiting final conversion at Muskegon. More information later. The two new canallers under construction for Hall Corporation, Ltd. are to be named EAST- CLIFFE HALL and HUTCHCLIFFE HALL. The new Hanna boat will be GEORGE M.HUMPHREY