Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Detroit Marine Historian, v. 13, n. 2 (October 1959), p. 2

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MARINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DETROIT, INC. Albert Bradley, Pregident 7035 Army Detroit 9, Michigan Curtis Haseltine, Vice Pres. 13951 Faust Detroit 23, Michigan John Campbell, Treasurer 1575 Cleveland Lincoln Park, Michigan Robert Zeleznik, Secretary 2015 Dime Building | Detroit 26, Michigan ANNOUNCEMENT: New member James C. MoDonald will take us on a color slide tour from the Gratiot Light down the St.Clair River, across Lake St.Clair and down the Detroit River to the Detroit River Light at our next meeting Saturday, Oct. 24, at the Edison Boat Club. NOTE: This is NOT the date listed in the minutes but is the correct date, the one on whic the Edison Boat Club was available. Dinner reservations should be made at least two days in advance with Ken Smith. The date again, Saturday, Oct.2h. CORRECTION: Your September, 1959, edition of DMH bch abt numbered. It should, of course, be Volume 13, No. REVIVAL: In the aly Auaues edition (Vol. 12, No. 1 he ERIE was listed as hav- ing been Psp Ri Not so, says member Robert J. MacDonald, of Route 1, North East, Pa. She burned, as we said, but the hull became barge T, A. IVEY which, towed by the tug IVEYROSE, carries coal, 700 tons at a time, from Port Dover, Ont., to John Ivey's greenhouses at Erie, Pa. Here is MacDonald's photo which he took Sept. 6, 1959, showing her present shape. SHIPS ‘ates Bese PETER WHITE -- inscribed in script, the only case of its -- has disappeared from the bows of a Lakes boat after 5h years as the Warne, now owned by Browning Lines, of Detroit, was renamed JOHN C. HAY for the president of the Michigan The MACKINAC ISLANDER, retired from the passenger trade,is carrying birch and maple logs from Grand Mar- ais, Minn., to veneer mills at the Soo and Petoskey. Out of retirement came the 60- year-old MATAAFA,idle since Nov. 26, 1957, to haul autos to Duluth, Nich- olson Transit, lacking ore cargoes because of the steel strike, needed the veteran MATAAFA for the automo- bile trade. President Eisenhower has signed a bill permitting the AQUARAMA to op-= erate on the Atlantic during winter when the Detroit-Cleveland run is closed. A Key West-Havana route is rumored. Largest ship ever built on the Lakes -- the 730-foot MURRAY BAY -- was launched in September at Coll- ingwood for Canada Steamship Linese Banke ba is gage feet longer than CSL's new LAKE. Inland Steel expects Fs; teaeee an saual ty, large bulk car= rier, the EDWARD L. RYERSON, early in December for service next springs Browning Lines has bid on the big VACATIONLAND, former Mackinac Straits carferry, to carry cargo in trailers between Detroit and Cleveland ona daily round-trip basis. Acceptance has been recommended by Michigan's highway boss. Five youthful Windsor skindivers have recovered an old anchor from the Amherstburg Channel. Allen Doug- las, curator of the Hiram Walker Museum, believes it is off the A. BRADLEY, a schooner sunk in August, 1859, after collision with the BRIG BANNER north of Malden, Ont Stoddara White

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