The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

SHIPS THAT NEVER DIE (#78) CHAMP! - Wooden passenger & freight a i : propellor, built at ‘ Cleveland in 1870 @ for the Northern Transportation Co. Dimensions 135 x 36, c. 450 get. Oper- ated on the Ogdens- burg to Chicago route until North- ern Transportation and its successor, Northern Transit, went out of busi- ness in 1882. CHAM- PLAINE, along with LAWRENCE of 1868, was then sold to - the Northern Michi- Photo by the late Mr.A.”Commodore™ Petertyl, courtesy of an Line of Chicago. our fellow member, Leslie Petertyl of Traverse City. @ same colors, white hull & cabins with green trim, and black stack with white top, were retained by the new company. In 1886 CHAMPLAINE was swept by fire on Grand Traverse Bay, a disaster that claimed 22 lives and left on- ly the hull intact. Her place was then taken by the ill fated VERNON, char- tered from the Booth Line of Chicago. Meanwhile she was rebuilt and renamed CITY OF CHARLEVOIX (Photo above). She continued in the N.M.Line after its merger with the Seymour Line in 1896, running with creme: (DMH vol.8 iar When the new steel liners ILLINOIS, 1899, MISSOURI, 1904, (DMH vol. a nosed @ and MANITOU, purchased in 1906, (DMH vol.2,no.8) joined the fleet, was sold and CITY OF CHARLEVOIX, rebuilt again and lengthened to t7o°t monet a second fire in 1895, was renamed KANSAS. At this time the Northern Michigan liners were painted all black hull and black stacks. In 1918 the old line was reorganized as the Michigan Transit Company, having five ships, KANSAS, ILLINOIS, MISSOURI, MANITOU, and the recently acquired PURITAN. By this time KANSAS was old and slower, and was used for a few short cruises and mostly for freight. After several years of partial inactivity this venerable old Te succumbed to the third fire in her history, while laid up at Mahistee n 192k. eeReEK KEKE KE KK KR HK KE KK KK KKK KKK KK RK KKK KK KE KK K The "LAKERS", Continued from page 3: CERRO GARDO, "Duluth, later SOAN MARU. CHAMBERINA, Duluth, later MARJORY WEEMS, MARJORY. CHAMBLEE, Duluth, later SHOKO MARU. CHANTIER, Duluth, later GUNDA. Lost by enemy action, World War II. CHAPARAL, Duluth , later ROHOLM. CHAPPELL, Duluth, laterISABEL WEEMS, ISABEL, LANITAL. CHATAUQUA Duluth, later FRANCES WEEMS, FRANCES. CITY OF FLINT, Wyandotte. CLEVELAND, Superior, later ANGE SCHIAFFINO, GUGNER, ELSE MARIE, @ONNERSVILLE, Ashtabula, later SPEC. CONNOTTON, Superior. Scrapped in 1931. COOLSPRING, Superior, later PROCTOR. COPALGROVE, Superior, later ATTACCA, BADASSONY *) COPERAS, Manitowoo, later ARTNA (1); SAGINAW, WaNASQUAN, GEMINI. Sopd.,'46. COQUINA, Manitowoc, later CYNTHIA OLSEN. Sunk by Enemy action, 1942. CORAPEAK, Manitowoc, later CHIPANA. CORCORAN, Manitowoc, later NANCY WEEMS, NANCY, & barge CARRYALL CORNUCOPIA, Manitowoc, later CORNORE (Bethlehem, DMH v.5,n.1), BELIZE. CORRALES, Manitowoc, later BARBARA OLSEN. In service. (fo be Continued)