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ee THE TUGBOAT RACE Dont forget ——_ > “onl “hth | MARINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY. June OF DETROIT, INC. a Robert A. Zeleznik, Pres. _ F. J. McAllister, Vice Pres. John R. Campbell, Teena! John C. Goodrich, Secretary 2015 Dime Building, 444 Sandwich St., W., 1575 Cleveland, 4328 Adams Court, Detroit 26, Michigan Windsor, Ontario Lincoln Park, Michigan Wayne, Michigan ww ANNOUNCEMENT : Our semi-annual Picnic Meeting will be held on Saturday afternoon, June 4th on the grounds of the Fort Malden Museum in Amherstburg, where Mr. & Mrs David Botsford will be our hosts. Come early and bring your camera, the picnic basket and thermos. Cream and sugar will be provided, and there'll be more coffee brewing in the historical Botsford urn. At approximately 8 P.M. (Detroit time) we'll convene in nearby Amherstburg High School for a program featuring Kodachrome slides of Great Lakes and East Coast ships, loaned by our fellow member Mr.C.Bradford Mitchell of Brooklyn, N.Y. Mr.Mitchell is also editor of "Steamboat Bill" the quar- terly journal of S.S.H.S.A, and is associated withthe American Merchant Mar- ine Institute, New York. You'll enjoy seeing his fine slides. Plan to make a day of it on Saturday, June &th, starting with the Tugboat Race at 1:30, then our picnic and the meeting in the evening. Your friends and guests are always welcome. John C.Goodrich, Secretary OK RK KK OR KOK KOR OR KOK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK KOK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK KOK OK OK OK SHIPS gas wane of C.S.L.'s new package freighter, originally announced as T GARRY, has been changed to FORT HENRY, to avoid a duplication in oo She will pass Detroit about June 1 on her first trip from Colling- wood to Toronto. T.H.Browning S.S.Co. have solé four old freighters to the Continental Grain Co. who will use them for grain storgge at Buffalo. They are the FRED L.HEWITT (ex SONOMA, ex D.S.TROXEL, ex SONOMA), D.A.MOLONEY (ex _ T.H.BROWNING, ex A.E.CORNELIUS, oR. , ex G.J.GRAMMER), CARL W.MEYERS (ex CRES- CENT CITY), and L.D.BROWNING, ex T.H.BROWNING, ex GORALIA. The canaller CAS-~ Co is now Paterson's THORDOC (ii). ROR OK ROK KOR OR OK ROK OR OR OR ROR KOK OK KOK OK ROKK KOK KOK KOK OK OK OK OK OK A OK OK MASTHEAD Our masthead silhouette for this issue depicts the little coastal tanker OTCO BAYWAY, one of several small tankers which come into the lakes each season from the Atlantic. OR ROK OK ROK ROK OK KOK KOR KOK KOK OK OK KOK RR OR ROK OK KOK OK OK OK OK OK KOK KOK GOOD Our fellow member Haviland F.Reves has a fine seven page illustrated READING ices in April "Compressed Air Magazine" on the Building of the soo AL. It is tbe best short description of the Ihstorical event your editoY a5 seen to date. One of our younger members, Alex Brunett, is HOR RRR ROK OR OR KOK OR KOK ROR KR OR RR RR RHR Aut hor of Gone, But Not. Forgotten, a fine story of the passenger ship deys on the Lakes in April "Gothic", pub- lished at Sacred Heart Seminary. (Editor's Note - Would that more of our members would engage in writing.) 7 ere ae kK KK RO ee At left: The BROCKVILLE in Lachine Rapids