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SHIPS THAT ae ngs 100730 - steel day excursion vessel, built in NEVER DIE 1901 at Toledo by Craig Shipbuilding Company for the Arnold (#56) goa Company, Mackinac Igland, Michigan. Dimensions, 214 x 34 x 21, 1169 gross ee 795 net. Single psig § driven by triple expansion engines of 1000 h.p. Two stacks and two masts. White hull and cabins, silver stack with black top. With her a taity smaller sister CHIPPEWA of 1900, she was intended for express service be- tween Mackinac Island and the S66. After a few years it was found too ex- pensive to operate two big ships on this route, and IROQUOIS was leased out for operation elsewhere on the Lakes. For several years she ran between Duluth and Isle Royale. She was on Lake Michigan for one season, and also ran excursions out of Oswego on Lake Ontario for a time. However in 1908 Arnold sold both vessels to the Puget Sound Navigation Company of Seattle. Both ships made the long voyage via Cape Horn and gave good service in the Puget Sound area. IROQUOIS returned to the Lakes and operated on Lake Michigan for the Chicago & SOuth Haven S.S.Co from 1920 to 1927. Back on the Pacific she was rebuilt during the winter of 1927-28 as an auto ferry and continued in this service out of Seattle until retired in favor of the new CHINOOK in 1948. (See DMH, vol 1, no.6). After more than five years of inactivity she was brought out again last year after another complete re- build as a aii triven truck ferry, a venture which is proving a great success. ugh so much changed in appearance as to be hardly recongize- able TROquoTs nis another proof that our Great Lakes shipbuilders build good ships. (Editor's Note: In a future edition we will describe her sister vessel CHIPPEWA in Gite pola * eK KK KK * * OK KOK KK KK KK KR KOK KK OK KK KK KKK KK OK SHIPS The Car ferries of the Canadian National Railway on the Detroit River and those of the Grand Trunk Western fleet on Lake Michigan are to be repainted in the smme colors as the coastwise steamships of the C.N.- G.T. System, with colorful red, white and blue stacks, and hulls with = w lower portiéns black, upper white. The HURON here on the River, and the CITY OF MILWAUKEE on Lake Michigan have already been repainted and are much im- proved in appearance. The self-unloader OSLER (ex E.B.OSLER) of C.S.L. has been renamed R.O.PETMAN in honor of the president of Canada Coal Co., Ltd. Q of Toronto. Rechristening ceremonies were held at Toronto on June 2kth. The OsLER was built as a bulk freighter in 1908 at Bridgeburg on the Niagara River as was at first a unit of the fleet of the St.Lawrence and Chicago Steam Navigation Company, which fleet became part of Canada Steamship Lines in 1916. She was rebuilt as a self-unloader in the late Twenties.