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SHIPS THAT NEVER DIE (#70) - INDIA, US100008, pioneer passenger & freight steamer built 1871 at Buffalo. One of three identical ships of old Anchor Line operating between Buffalo and Du- luth, with calls at Erie, Cleveland, * Detroit, Mackinac, Soo, Marquette and ; t Hancock. Sister ships were CHINA and JAPAN, also built at Buffalo. 210 x 32.6 x 14, 1239 g.t & 942 nt. Steam propellor of 529 hp. Used auxiliary sail in her early deys. Painted outside above main deck a spotless white (washed down after every trip) and below an attractive green. These colors were separated at main deck by a rich brown fender strake above which was a bright red half round molding strip. Stack was crimson. Cabin interiors trimmed in black wal- nut. Curved tops on windows and doors. Sleeping and eating accommodations for 120 passengers. Sold Canadian in 1907 & renamed CITY OF OTTAWA (Can 122018) running between Montreal and Chicago and way ports with freight & passengers. Some records show her as SAULT STE.MARIE briefly in 1929. Re- turned to US registry in 1930 & con- Photo by the late Mr.A."Commodore” Peterty], verted into a barge, getting back her gourtesy, Leslie Petertyl of Traverse Citys original name INDIA. Eventually she was towing behind the trawler MARITA in the steel trade mostly between Cleveland and Monroe. Taken over by U.S.Maritime Commission in 1942 for in- tended war service and towed to New Orleans via the Illinois Waterway and Mississippi River. The lest heard from the old veteran she was being dis- mantled on Lake Pontchartrain, near New Orleans, the war having ended. Dana Thomas Bowen OR KR KOK OK KK OK ROK OK OK RK OK OK OK OK OK OK KOK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK KOK OK OK Ships of the GREAT LAKES TOWING COMPANY, continued Rigen page 3: Section V: Wrecking and salvage tugs and lighter Tug W.B.CASTLE, 26869, 1862 Cleveland, 114 x 20 x a wood # FAVORITE 1. 9201, 1864 Fort Howard, Wis.,140 x 29 x S's wo is n FAVORITE il, 203983, 1907 Buffalo, 180 x 43 x 20, steel. aoa 1918. "FAVORITE aii, 217520, 1919 Cleveland, 157 x 40 x 13, steel. In fleet. WALES, Can 83375, 1881 Sarnia, 126 x 24 x 11, wood. Barge H.F. CHURCH, 95264, 1874 Trenton, Mich., wood, 326 g- te W.R LINTON, 26250, 1866 Marine City, wood, 359 get BBO (ex Str. NYANZA) , 130462, 1890 wW. Bay City, woOd 280 x 4l. T.F.NEWMAN i, 1902 Port Huron. steel, 156 x 36. S 59589. T.F.NEWMAN il, 168604, 1923 Cleveland, steel, ina x 40 x 20. J.B.NOYES, 46462, 1883 Manitowoc, wood, 3 &. t. OLGA (ex SANDUSKY), 115141, 1873 gubralter, Mich. ,593 g.t > PONTOON, 165484, 1913 Cleveland, steel, 100 x 40 x 12. In fleet. +) RELIANCE, 163349, 1907 Buffalo, 242 x ho > 20, steel. In lfeet. , 16906 1, 1924 Cleveland, 160 x 40 x 9, steel. RESCUE, 162272, 1904 poreans 180 x37 = a steel. RESOLUTE (ex MANDA), 1896 Chicago, 352 x 4h, steel. W.W.STEWART (ex W.d.SPICER), 62851, 1866 Sgrnia, wood, 294 got. 322333333333