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MARINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DETROIT, INC. John R. Campbell, Pres. F. J. McAllister, Vice Pres. Kenneth E. Smith, Treasurer Robert A. Zeleznik, Secretary 1575 Cleveland, 444 Sandwich St., W., 153 Monterey, 2015 Dime Building, Lincoln Park, Michigan Windsor, Ontario Highland Park 3, Michigan Detroit 26, Michigan ANNOUNCEMENT keep in mind the January meeting, tentatively scheduled for Wed nesday evening, the l6th, at the Veteran's Memorial Building. This will be an illustrated program of slides and pictures in projection. Complete details of this meeting will appear in the next Marine Historian. In the name of your fellow members and your officers, the Marine Historian extends to you all our most sincere good wishes for a truly blessed and merry Christmas and for a happy and success filled new year. The enclosed greeting card depicts the iron propellor WISCONSIN, built at Wyandotte in 1881 for the Goodrich Transportation Co. Dimensions: 203 x 35, 1181 gross tons and 1020 net. Later names were NAOMI, E.G.CROSBY, GENERAL ROBERT M.O'REILLY, E.G.CROSBY, PILGRIM and WISCONSIN, with almost as many different owners. Back in the Goodrich Fleet with here original name after 1922, she foundered in a soorm off Kenosha, Wisconsin in 1929, * eR RRR RR ROK KOK KK OK KK KK KOK K * eK KK KK OK OK MASTHEAD Jim Howick sent us this cut of the GREATER DETROIT, which is due to be burned, preliminary to scrapping, on December 10th. KK KK KK KK KK KOK OK KOK ROK OR KOK KK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK KK KOK OK KOK OK SHIPS The MACASSA, presently operating about Ham ilton Harbor as a com- bination passenger ship, firetug end general towing vessel, is the former Canadian Governmant tug JALOBERT. The Norwegian freighter ALA, recent- ly gutted by fire near HONGKONG, is the former Newfoundland to Great Lakes vessel ZENDA. The 0.F.MOOK, once familiar on our River as the mail boat, is now lying idle at Peekskill, N.Y., on the Hudson River. The new freighter CAROLINE SMITH of the Bwedish-Chicago Line arrived on her maiden voyage int the Lakes, early in November. The French coastal passenger ship ANNE DE BRET- AGNE, formerly the "Laker" WAR MIDST and LAKE GREENWOOD, has been scrapped in Italy. The Nicholaon exer piven TAMPICO has been temporarily repaired after grounding in the lower Detroit River, and the J.P.WELLS (ex HAZEN BUT- ex R, ex JOSHUA W.RHODES) was safely towed to Sault Ste. Marie by the cutter MACKINAW, and subsequently to Detroit, after suffering rudder damage in a severe blow on Lake Syperior. The CLIFFS VICTORY has gone to the shipyards at South Chicago to be readied for her lengthening of 96 feet this winter, and the A.F.HARVEY is at Bay City where she will be con- verted into a self-unloader for the Bradley Transportation Division. WO OK OR OR OK OR OK OK OK OK KOK OK OK KK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK KK OK * ee KK KOK At left: (this pg) The "Lakers" have met various fates in all parts of the World. Here is the MUNLEON, fe) formerly the LAKE FABYAN on the rocks off Point Reyes,California in 1931.