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MARINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DETROIT, INC. Albert Bradley, President 7035 Arm; Detroit 9, Michigan 3951 Faust Detroit 23, Michigan ANNOUNCEMENT: summer Society. Curtis Haseltine, Vice Pres. ut John Campbell, Treasurer 1575 Cleveland Lincoln Park, Michigan Robert Zeleznik, Secretary 2015 Dime Building Detroit 26, Michigan Am, The first fell meeting will feature color slides of the bigu™ cruise on the ASSINIBOIA, The place hes not yet been set. teken by members of the Announcement will be made later, SHIPS The steel strike is accelerating the movement of old vessels to the shipbreskers. PARKDALE end the SHELTON WEED. The company is also selling the Upper Lakes Shipping Ltd., is scrapping three of its canallers at Port bei Dry Docks Ltd. They are the GROVEDALE, the EDWIN T. DOUGLASS to Pike Salvage Co. of Kingston, Ont., for use as a lighter, Others slsted to go include JUPI- TER, MACGILVRAY SHIRAS and CARL W. On the other hand, more boets are being built. Upper Lsekes, which re- cently launched the SEAWAY QUEEN, is converting the ocesn tanker IMPER EDMONTON to 8 730 X 75 bulk carrier, scrapping the old 523-foot hull and building "Hull 28" around the turbo- electric drive engines. Slated for completion next summer, it will heve a carrying capacity of 23,000 tons. Launching date for the second of its four guided-missile destroyers , the LYNDE D. MCCORMICK, hes been set by Defoe Shipbuilding Co., of Bay City for July 28. The first des- troyer of the company's $68,000,000 contrect, the HENRY B. WILSON, was leunched April 22. Three Interlakers have carried ore to Hamilton in the early weeks of the steel strike and the company has sent the JACKSON, COULBY and the GRACE to Sept Iles for ore. Fellow member Dick McDaniel has recently published his 1959-60 Sea- way Maritime Directory containing a Guide to Great Lakes Freighters, as compiled by John W. Greenwood, with a second section of 800 pages of port directory to come out later, At the same time he published a volume of verse by Yon Swenson entitled The Seaway and Other Landlocked Verse. Oo is now selling recently-acquired Ad- Te Andrew Merrilees prints from his Young Collection. Catalog $2, dress him at 10 Herper, Toronto This hes been a great year to see new vessels on the lakes. In eddit- ion to lerger foreign freighters, we have had e 28-ship flotilla of the U.S. Navy visiting our ports, visits by Queen Elizebeth's yecht BRITANNIA end the first sppesrance in our in- land seas of Cenade Steamship Lines! TADOUSSAC. It's been a field day for our photographerse Free Press photos by Vince Witek (right) and Tony Spina (below)