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SHIPS THAT NEVER DIE (#75 MATOA (US 92204), steel bulk freight propellor, built by Globe Iron Wks., at Cleveland in 1890 for Minnes- ota Steam Ship Co. and registered at Ashtabula,O. Di- mensions, 290.6 x 40.3 x 21.1, 2311 gross tons. Black hull with white stripe, white cab- ins, black stack with white triangle and red letter "M". Entered Steel Trust fleet in 1901, and sailed as a "tin stacker"until 1913. In that year she was upbound on Lake Huron loaded with coal when the Great Storm of 1913 broke. MATOA stranded some ten miles north of Harbor Beach and became a total constructive loss. She was abandoned by the underwriters and sold to the Reid Wrecking Co. of Sarnia and Port Huron who salvaged her and towed her to the Port Huron shipyards. In 1915 she was sold to the Warren Transportation Co. of Boston, was cut in two at Port Huron and taken to the coast. In 1917 she was registered out of Boston. During World War I her camouflage helped her elude German submarines. In 1923 she . was sold back to the Lakes, having been bought by the Playfair interests of + Midland, Ont.(Great Lakes Transportation Co.(see DMH vol.2, no.5). She was again cut in two and brought to Collingwood, where she was rebuilt to dimen- sions 326 x 40 x 21.2. and renamed GLENRIG. Her new colors were gray hull, white cabins and rose red stack with black top. In 1926 the Playfair fleets were'merged with Canada Steamship Lines and GLENRIG was renamed HUGUENOT, now with red hul], white cabins and forecastle and red stack with black top over white band. She remained in the C.S.L. fleet until she was sold for scrap & was broken up at Midland in 1937. wW.R.Williams OR OK OK OK OK OK OK OR OK OK OK OK KR OK OK OK OK OK OR OK KR KOK OK KR OK KR OK OK OK KK OK OK OK OK OK OK Ships of the GILCHRIST TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, continued from page 3: V.SWAIN, 1874 Cleveland, 187 x 33. Burned, Lake Erie, 1907. TACOMA, 1881 Cleveland, 260 x 38. Burned at Ludington, Mich.,1914. CHARLEMAGNE TOWER, JR., 1886 Cleveland, 255 x 40. Foundered on the Atlantic Coast, 1914. VOLUNTEER, 1888 Trenton, Michigan. 250 x 39. WALLULA, 1882 Cleveland, 260 x 39. Went to Atlantic Coast and was dismantled at Bath, Me., in 1920. WAVERLY, 1874 Buffalo, 197 x 33. Sunk in collision with Str. TURRET CROWN, Lake Huron, 1903. D.C.WHITNEY, 1882 St.Clair, Mich. 229 x 40. Sold Canadian, later GARGANTUA. GEORGE F. WILLIAMS, 1889 W.Bay City, 280 x 41. Abandoned, 1913. ALFRED P.WRIGHT, 1888 Cleveland, 286 x 41. Burned near Portage Entry, Lake Superior, 1915. «-, 4 ae, 1887 Cleveland, 279 x 40. burned and stranded, Lake st.cfair 905. In the next number of the Marine Historian we will complete the story of the Gilchrist Fleet with a list of the 34 steel ships, most of which were built for the company in the early years of the 20th Century. If any of our members has a photo of the PERRY G.WALKER, 1903, your Editor would like to borrow it and run it in the next issue.