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ae THAT NEVER (#96) cae OF DETROIT, (US 125662),- Com- posite sidewheel passenger ship, built by Detroit D.D.Co. in 1878 for D.&.C. Steam Navigation Co. 234 x 36 x 13, 1094 gross. Built to re- place the burned R.N.RICE, whose beam engines she received, 62' cylinder by an 11 foot stroke. First operated between Detroit and Cleveland, running opposite NORTHWEST. When CITY OF DETROIT of 1889 came out, our ship's name was change to CITY OF THE STRAITS. For a year or so she operated out of Chicago to Michigan ports and then returned to Detroit to fill in on the Lake Huron service while the new vessels were being readied for that work. The year 1896 saw the inaugura- tion of the Cleveland-Toledo run by the CITY OF THE STRAITS and the STATE OF NEW YORK (ex CITY OF MACKINAC of 1883), In 1901 the CITY OF THE STRAITS had probably the first wireless in stalled on any lake ship. The end of her pass- enger days came in 1914 when she was converted to a barge. She was then owned by C.S.Neff of Milwaukee and used in the bulk trade. Her name was changed to LIBERTY. In the early twenties she was purchased by Capt.Wm.Nicholson of Detroit and towed over from Lake Michigan by the freighter THOMAS DAVIDSON. In 1927 or 1928 a diesel engine was installed in her and she was used as a motorship in the steel trade on Lake Erie. (See illustration, courtesy of ™\% Duff G.Brace, showing her docked at Uonneaut sometime in the 30s.) Her first commander as a motorship was Gapt.Walter Neal, who was the only surviv- or of the sinking of the wooden freighter MYRON (ex MARK HOPKINS) on Lake Superior in 1919. CITY OF DETROIT - CITY OF THE STRAITS - LIBERTY had a long life as passenger ship, barge and motor bulk freighter. Her end came in 1948 when her engines were removed and her hull was abandoned on the Duncan- son property at the head of Bob Lo Island. There some years later she burned to the water's edge. Emory A.Massman, Jr. OF aN a Ae NAR Ri a Na hes hl Rie ee he eR A ee Re a A eS Ra KEK hea ahem ie oe ay SHIPS OF THE "Cl-M-AV1" TYPE, built on the Great Lakes, continued from p.3: YARD HITCH, built at Milwaukee by Froemming. Later RIO MAGDALENA. (P.3) The Shipyards referred to briefly in the foregoing list were : 1) Waltsr Butler Shipbuilders, Inc., Duluth and Superior. 2) Froemming Brothers, Ince., Milwaukee. 3) Globe Shipbuilding Co., Superior. 4) Leathem D.Smith Shipbuilding Co.,Sturgeon Bay. Of these Butler and Froemming were strictly "wartime" yards and worked only during the War. Globe had been in busimss previously, but has not buil ships since World War II. Smith was an old established organization and has continued operations since W.W.II, After Mr.Leathem Smith's untimely death in 1947, the yard became the Christy Corporation. a To complete the list we include one vessel of the "Cl-M-AV1" type whic has been on the Lakes in recent years, - PAUL H. TOWNSEND (ex COASTAL DELEGATE ex HICKORY COLL), built at Wilming- ton,Calif.,1945, by Consdlidated Steel Corp. Converted at Hobo: ken, 1953, to bulk cement carrier for Huron Transportation Co. Sa ig err CS) he TAR? eat urtntan at Aahtahula