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Che Betroit Marine Historian JOURNAL OF MARINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DETROIT Curtis Haseltine, Editor 13951 Faust, Detroit 23 PUT-IN-BAY farewell Volume 13, No. 8 April, 1960 IT WAS back in 1929 that Andrew Plofchan, then a young photo= grapher for The Detroit Free Press, was assigned to photograph the launching of Detroit's new fireboat, the JOHN KENDALL, at the Toledo Shipbuilding Co. Recently Fred Plofchan, Andrew's son and himself now a young photographer for The Free Press, came across this print in his now-retired father's collection and consented to its puolication in The Detroit Marine Historian. Many of our members have been privileged to inspect the KENDALL at her dock at the foot of Twenty-Fourth in Detroit, given guided tours by fellow memoers William Jagenow, Ray Dowler or Art Nantau. And the KENDALL, as good as the day she was launched at Toledo, con- tinues to protect downtown Detroit with her powerful, steam-driv- en equipment, the equivalent in pumping power to 17 land fire companies. Her power and specially-reinforced, ice-breaking bow enable the KENDALL to provide year-around fire protection.