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MARINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DETROIT, INC. P72. Pe Eresiaent Wm. B.Mahone; Windsor, Ontario , Vice.Pres 251 Lothrop Road, ANNOUNCEMENT: Palmer Hotel in Windsor. of the history, Steamship Co., including the Great Lakes Grosse Pointe Farms, 36, Mich. Wayne, Michigan John C.Goodrich, Treasurer overt A.Zelesnik, Seo: 4328 Adans Ciréle 2015 Dine Building e Toit 26. Michigan. The annual dinner meeting will be held Feb. 14 at the Norton T. J. McCarthy, Jr., will be our speaker, telling present operations and future plans of the company's to northern European ports via the this meeting are to be made with the Bldg., Detroit, by the Wednesday preceding the meeting. T. J. McCarthy application to operate out of the Seaway. Reservations for Bob Zeleznik, 2015 Dime Tickets will then Secretary, oe picked up from Ken Smith at the door. Al Bradley SHIPS Last of the famous fleet of D& sidewheel passenger steamers, the WESTERN STATES, built in 1902, has been sold to the Bay Citv Scrap Co. for what the principals say was “over $30,000", Unsuccessful attempts to operate her as a "flotel," half-beached and half-moored at Tawas City, Michigan, failed. About 1,000 tons of super- structure is being removed at Tawas. Hull, engine and boilers will be cut up at Bay City this spring. Smallest of the shut-down Michig gan State Ferries fleet--the STRAITS OF MACKINAC, built in 1927 and first to ve built purposely for that serv- ice--may sail again. She has been sold to a Cheboygan group of 15 men, 10 of whom formerly sailed on the ferries. President is Capt. Emil Potvin, former master of the STRAITS, who will be master ag- ain. Plans call for moonlight pas- senger service this summer under the Mackinac Bridge, around Bois Blanc and Round Islands and regular ferry « “a Ca LIBERTY, fireboat. Oades. former Buffalo From the lection of Fr. Dowling. C. W. CADWELL in drydock, Photo, courtesy of Byron service between Mackinac Island, St. Ignace and Mackinaw City. Grand Trunk Western is moving its rail ferry operations from Milwaukee to Muskegon and will maintain its four ferries on the Michigan side. Largest ship ever launched on thy Canadian side is the MENIHEK LAKE, christened last month at Collingwood for Carryore Ltd., a Hanna subsidia- ry. She is 715 feet long and is to sail between Quebec and Lake Erie ports. Colonial Steamships Ltd., former- ly Sarnia Steamships, has been re- named Scott Misener ,Steamships Ltd. Interlake has sold the SATURN and VERONA to Kinsman Transit. Both had been in the fleet since 1913. Stoddard White col- >>