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

MARINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DETROIT, INC. ¥.J.MoAllister, greervect Wn. Bp eeneasy Vice.Pres indwich Street W., 251 rop Road, Windsor, Ontari ie ANNOUNCEMENT: Capt. John Edwardson, aesaae *polnte Farms, %, Mich. wae, Michigan of Euclid; Os John C.Goodrich 4328 Adams Cirsle 2015 Dime Building Toit 26. Mic! ohigan. a retired Great Lakes skipper, will relive for us, in color and comment, a journey on the Great Lakes at our January general meeting, to be held at 8 p.m. on Jan. 10, 1959, at the Veterans Memorial Building. Robert Zeleznik Largest ship ever to sink on the Lakes was the 640-foot self- S HIPS unloader CARL D. BRADLEY which broke in two off Gutl Island in northern Lake Michigan, Nov. 18, and sank within minutes with 33 men lost, all but the the cause of the sinking, ina rode out without serious trouble. The BRADLEY was built in 1927 at Lorain as the largest ship on the Lakes at the time. She was the first of more than 60 Lakes ships to be fitted with flow control fins, de- signed by University of Michigan en- gineers to reduce stern viorations. By a single inch one way and four feet the other, the new self-unload- er ADAM E, CORNELIUS is the largest self-unloader on the Lakes. Launched Nov. 25 at Manitowoc for American S. S., she exceeds the JOHN G. MUNSON by an inch in length end her moulded depth of 40 feet (es against the MUNSON's 36) will give her a capaci- ty of 23,800 net tons of limestone next spring. Two Boland & Cornelius boats now bear the ADAM E. CORNELIUS © name, new name of the older has not yet been announced. Inter-lake shipping ended Dec. 6 with closing of St.Lewrence canals and Nec. 15 at the Soo. Manchester Liners, company to send its own ships into the Lakes, will commission a 6, Wee tonner for service in Feoruary. and a subsequent ship will have tits bridge amidships, diesels aft. E.C.COLLINS is being converted at Sturgeon Bay to self-unloading cem- ent carrier...Shenango Furnace's new 710-footer, to be launched in May, will be SHENANGO II, perhaps the first lake freighter in modern times to be called "second" except those like ELTON HOYT II, named for a man first British first mate and a watchman. severe storm which several other vessels Coast Guard is seeking whose name includes "second, -IMP- ERIAL KINGSTON (an. SARNGLE TE, " SARNIA) is being scrapped at Port Golvorne She is 250 feet long, built in 1916. Crane ship LAGONDA is being scra- pped at Buffalo...B.A.PEERLESS is to be shortened &0 feet from 620 feet by removal of two forward tanks,will be converted for salt water and the lakes-to-ocean service...Upper Lakes and St.Lawrence has bought ocean tanker IMPERIAL EDMONTON, mothballed at Sorel...Capt. Peter Fulcer, out of Columbia's BUCKEYE, is master of the company's new crane self-unload- er ROBERT C. NORTON; Capt. Jerry Lange, mate in the RICHARDSON, now gete the BUCKEYE to sail. Capt. Ray Edgerton, of Cleveland Cliff's CADILLAC, will retire after 35 years in the fleet. He started in 1911 with Pittsburgh's SIR HENRY BESSEMER...Capt. Tom Jewett has re- tired in the SENATOR OF CANADA after sailing since the mid-80s in canal- lers and Upper Lakes vessels of the Paterson line, He brought out the PATERSON and the SENATOR. Stoddard White MASTHEAD The JAY COOKE of the old Ashley-Dustin Line, from an illustration in The Lake Erie Breeze, Summer of 1945, telling the history of the Ashley-Dustin boats, written by Capt. Frank E. Hamilton. Jack Miller takes a long look at the 729-foot EDMUND FITZGERALD Treasurer patent A.Zeleznik, Secretary J