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MARINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DETROIT, INC. Y.J.MoAllister, President Wm.B.Mahoney, Vice.Pres bib ‘Sandwich 3¢ Re Road, 2015 Dime Builai, Windsor, Cabextoeee " Besaee Eeintecreman, 36,ilioh; terse Michigan Detroit 26. Michigan, ANNOUNCEMENT Tour the Great Lakes with Carl Turnquist in his two-hour col- or film of a trip aboard the FORT YORK at the April 27 dinner meeting at the Grosse Pointe War Memorial. Reservations, at $2.75 each, to be made with Secretary Robert Zeleznik by Thursday, April 23. John C.Goodrich, Treasurer 3 Ciréle Leal Al Bradley NOMINATIONS The following have agreed to be candidates for Advisory Coun- cil in the June election at Amherstburg: Albert Bradley, David Glick, Oscar Gregoire, William Hoey, William Munford, John Myers, Florence Olsen and Robert Zeleznik. Capt. Philip E. Thorpe, Chairman, Nominating Committee SHIPS Navigation at the Soo opened April 14 with arrival of the Colum- bia crane boat 0. S. MCFARLAND, escorted by the cutter MACKINAW, Loading pig iron at Algoma Steel for Saginaw, the 380-foot freighter did not stray outside the city limits of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., but actually won the honor of being first ship of 1959...The 57-year-old WESTERN STATES, last of the D&C passenger fleet, was destroyed by fire March 21 while being scrapped at Tawas City where she failed as a "flotel", With decks burned off, the hull will be towed to a Bay City junkyard. Two American saltwater cargo-pas- hovert A.Zelesnik, Secretary senger vessels, the EXTAVIA of Amer- ican Export and SANTA REGINA of the Grace Line, jockeyed to be first U. S. commercial ship through the Sea- way, scheduled at this writing to open about April 20...Twenty-eight Navy warships, headed by cruiser MA- CON, will tour the Lakes this summer after dedication of the Seaway. Lake Carriers! Association has been asked to find civilian pilots...Detroit is to be host Oct. 15 to annual conven- tion of the Propeller Club of the United States and American Merchant Marine Conference. Only once before -- at Cleveland --has the convention been on the Lakes. above Bert Stoll. End of WESTERN STATES is shown in Free Press phbdbo by Cc. Bonen took: USS HENRY B. WILSON view at left. U.S.Lake Survey will sweep Bould- er Reef area in northern Lake Michi- gan to determine whether an unknown obstruction caused sinking Nov. 18, 1958, of self-unloader CARL D. BRAD- LEY...The 4,500-ton USS HENRY B. WI- LSON, guided missile destroyer and largest warship ever built on Lakes scheduled for launching April 22 a Defoe Shipbuilding in Bay City with three more to follow. They are 438 feet long with beam of 47, probably the first destroyers ever launched sideways...WILFRED SYKES and L. E. BLOCK, opened ore shipping April 10 at Escanaba. Stod@rd White (An Artist's Conception)