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MARINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DETROIT, INC. ?.J.MoAllister, eae Wm.B. Mahoney Vice.Pres bbb Sandwich Str 251 Lothrop Road, Windsor, Ontario. 328 Grosse Pointe Farms, 36,Mioh, Wayne, Michiga: Dime Building Detroit 26. Mio! ciigens John C.Goodrich, Treasurer aes A.Zeleznik, Secreti Adams Circ she Capt. Edgar H. Yiall has been appointed marine superintendent SHIPS the Columbia Transportation Division, succeeding Capt. Henry Wiersch, retired. ashore in 1956. Columbia's Str. CHARLES W. GALLOWAY has been renamed ROBERT C. Viall commanded Columbia ships until he went NORTON ,in honor of the company's honorary board chairman, who is the son of an origi- nal partner in Oglebay, Norton & Co. The ship’ is being converted to a com- bination crane-self unloader at Sturgeon Bay. The old hydraulic sand dredge, ROCKWOOD (ex-J. A. Pearson) is for sale vy her owners, Erie Sand Steam- ship Co. Late arrivals on the 1958 sailing scene were the ADRIAN ISELIN and the TAMPICO, voth of the Nicholson Tran- sit fleet, and the W.F.WHITE, of, the Bradley Line. Columbia Transportation has’ sold the CARROLLTON and R. E. MOODY as scows for work at Duluth. The CAR- ROLLTON was built in 1904 as the MARQUETTE & BESSEMER NO. 1 and orig- inally had two stacks arranged lat- erally, with trains running between them. Drydocked at Toledo, the excurs- ion steamer CANADIANA’ is scheduled for repairs and a new life -- sail- ing in the summer, showboat in the off-season. New owner, as a result of a federal auction, is Gordon Viz- neau, who operated concessions on the boat last summer until she was wrecked. The crane ship VENUS, formerly of Bethlehem Steel, has been renamed STZEL PRODUCTS by her new owners, Lake Shore Steel Products Corp., of Marquette. Stoddard white NETHERLANDS CONSUL W. K. von Wei- ler will speak on "The Netherlands As a Seafaring Nation" at the Nov. 22 meeting at p.m. in the Veterans Memorial Bldg. He will show and com- ment on two films, the launching of the ROTTERDAM by Queen Juliana, and Netherlands shipping. Rovert Zeleznik OUR MASTHEAD this month is a let- terhead from the Jack Goodrich col- lection. HONDA KNOT---A very interesting story was told to me by John Webb, a member of the Marine Historical Society of Detroit, about the HONDA KNOT, the CI-M-AVI-type coastal freighter built at Duluth, shown on the May-June cover'of The Detroit Marine Historian. John Webb's youngest brother, Dave, who was a Nordberg Diesel en- gineer, was flown from San Francis- co to Pearl Harbor to take over the duties of the HONDA KNOT's engineer who was in the hospital there, The ship loaded with meat for the armed forces was ordered to the French-controlled island of New Ca} edonia where they found no refrighD ation so the ship remained there for six months until the cargo was used, A number of trips to different islands inthe South Pacific were made after the war to bring back the war dead. In 1947 the ship was sold to the Government of Iceland. Dave Webb, was sent to Iceland on the ship to instruct the crew from Iceland how to operate the Nordberg diesels. Dave Webb is now operating a die- sel-engined dredge in Venezuela and the HONDA KNOT, no doubt, is hauling refrigerated herring to Russia and England from Iceland today. Jack Miller COAST GUARD is gathering material for a "Coast Guard Room" at Smith- sonian Institute and Comdr. Ben Mal- loch, Marine Inspection at Netroit, has asked us for any Coast Gua historical material we may have. you have any, write Commandant (CP Coast Guard Headquarters, Washington 25, 0.C., describing material, its historical background and authenti- cation. Youtll ve notified if it is