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Che Detroit Marine Historian JOURNAL OF MARINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DETROIT July-August, i586 Editor KOR KK OR OR OR KOK ROR OK OR OK KOR ROK OK ROK OK ROK KOK KOK OK OK KR KK OK KOK OK Ships of the GILCHRIST TRANSPORTATION COMPANY - Part III ‘< The JAMES B.WOOD entering the Duluth Piers McKenzie Photo OR OK OR KOK OR OR KR OK OR OK OK ROK OK OK OK KOK OK OK OK OK OK KOK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK KOK OK 5, Steel freighters eget by the company, around the year 1900: (6) THOMAS MAYTHAM, 1892 South Chicago. 286 x 41. Stranded, Keweenaw Pt., 1926 and abandoned to underwriters. Salvaged and eventually re- built as diesel twin screw canaller DOLOMITE #2(1937), and later named MOTOREX. Sold British, 1942. MERIDA, 1893 W.Bay re 360 x 45. Foundered on Lake Erie in the "Black Friday" Storm, 19 E.W. ed 1896" W.Bay “city. 375 x 45. Stranded near Marquette, Mich., aget and oy Later removed and scrapped. ( Tllustration in 1.4, No.7 veo 11h, ae Clevelend. 301 x 38. Stranded, South Fox Island, Lake Michigan, 1905. VULCAN, 1889 Cleveland. 260 x 38. Later Canadian VINMOUNT (C.S.L.). Scrapped at Sorel, P.Q., about 1937. (See DMH Vol.6, No.3) DAVID M.WHITNEY, 1900° Wyandotte. 412 x 51. Later EDWIN L.BOOTH, G.N. WILSON (i), THOMAS BRITT (ii), and BUCKEYE. Still in service. (See DMH Vol 4, No.7 and Vol.8, No.3) 6. Steel freighters built for the line: (28) GENERAL GARRETSON, 1907 W.Bay City. 520 x 54. Later E.J.KULAS (1), POWHATTAN , HARLES A.PAUL and presently B.F.JONES (ii). W.H.GILCHER, igg1 Cleveland. 301 x 41. First steel ship of the fleet. Foundered off High Island, L.Michigan, 1892, with all lives lost. Continued, page 3.