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Che Detroit Marine Historian JOURNAL OF MARINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DETROIT Rey. Edward J. Dowling, S. J. Editor University of Detroit, Detroit 21, Michigan » VOLUME 11, No.3 NOVEMBER, 1957 OR OR OK OK OR KR OK OK OK OK OR OK OK OK OK OK OK OR KOK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK KK K KK K KK The "YELLOW KIDS" - The Ships of the Wolvin Fleet eeree figs a The WARD AMES (Pesha Photo) One of Duluth's early steamship dynasties was the brokerage house of LaSalle & Wolvin. Later the firm was known as Augustus & Roy Wolvin. Between 1895 and 1914 this organization managed several prominent American freighter fleets. Also for several years early in the present century, Mr. Augustus Wolvin managed the Pittsburgh Steamship Company fleet. In 1913 the Wolvins were involved in the foundation of the Canada Steamship Lines. More than 40 well remembered Great Lakes ships have sailed in the Wolvin fleets. - Zenith Transit Company, 1895. Green hulls, black stacks, white cabins. oe ZENITH CITY, 1895 cam 387 x 48. Largest on the Lakes in that year. rapped in 1946. QUEEN CITY, 1896 eke 401 x 48. Scrapped, 1946. CRESCENT ciry, 1897 Chicago, 406 x 48, later CARL W.MEYERS. Inactive. EMPIRE CITY, i897 Cleveland, 405 x 48, later SUMATRA. In service. SUPERIOR CITY, 1898 Lorain, 429 x 50. Lost in collision, 1920. The ships of the Zenith Transit Company became part of the Pittsburgh SS. o Co., in 1901. 2. American Syeamship Company, 1899. Red hulls, black stacks, white cabins. Str. W.H.GILBERT, 1893 W.Bay City, 325 x 42. Lost, 1916. A.B.WOLVIN (1), 1900 Lorain 242 x 42. Later PORTLAND. To coast,1918. (Continued on page 2)