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Che Detroit Marine Historian JOURNAL OF Rev. Edward J. Dowling, S. J., Editor University of Detroit, Detroit 21, Mich. (\QAARINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY volume 9, ‘Yo.1 . OF DETROIT SEPTEMBER , 1955 Ee a Rh hs 9 8 Sek 9 tok tN deck 6% high te SER THE HUTCHINSON FLEETS Part I III: The Inland Steamship Co. (Managed by Hutchinson ole Inland Steel Cor- poration since 1910). KR RK KK KK OR KK OK KK KOK KR OK KK KK KK KK KK OK KOK OK KOK KOK OK OK Saas eS The Inland freighter N.F.LEOPOLD * KK KKK KK KK OK OK KOK KOK OK OK KOK KOK KK KK OK KKK KK KK KK K OK Str. JOSEPH BLOCK (ex ARTHUR H.HAWGOOD), 1907 W.Bay City for Hawgood. 549 x 56 Acquired by Inland in 1910, N.F. eae (ex W.R.WOODFORD), 1908 W.Bay City for Hawgood. 532 x 56. Acquired in 1910. tater E.J.BLOCK. Diesel engines, 1946. L.E.BLOCK, built for the line 1927, Lorain. 604 x 64. PHILIP D. BLOCK, 1925 Lorain for Pioneer SS Co. 586 x 60. Transferred to Inland Fleet in middle Thirties. Lengthened to 676 ft. overall, 1952. M.V. THE INLAND (ex STEEL CHEMIST), canal size craneship, built 1926 at Kearny, N.d. for U.S.Steel Products Co (Isthmien Lines). In fleet approximately from 1946 to 1948 for delivery of finished steel. Sold Canadian & renamed TRANSINLAND. Str. WILFRED SYKES, built for the fleet, 1950 Lorain. 656 x 70. @icte: The Inland vessels originally had red hulls, white cabins & black stacks with light yellow band with black diamond and white "I" (see picture above). Later the stack was changed to a red band, white diamond and black "I". Since the completion of the WILFRED SYKES the colors have been, red hull with broad white strip full length, gray forecastle, white cabins and silver stack with red top and red diamond on the silver. Continued, p.3