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SHIPS THAT TWIN PORTS NEVER DIE Twinescrew, #108 rigerated space. (US 2232)1) and TWIN CITIES diesel-electric freighters, four compartments Built in 1923 at Ashtabula by the (Us 2233)9) drive, steel package and also carrying re=- Great Lakes Engineering Works for Minnesota and Atlantic Transit Co., of Wilmington, Del. Dimensions Beater Eel B Dalat h, W.J. Jenks, manager. t De 12 x ' >» 1460 g.t. Powered by two six-cylinder General Motors diesel-electrics,cylinders 12" X 193" connected to two electric motors, making t For over three years these two boats were operated each season between Duluth and New York via Buffalo and the New York State Barge Canal. Mast= head lights were carried on vertical steel spars hinged to the deck, which could be lower- ed flat on deck to pass under the fixed canal bridges. In 1927 they were employed carrying steel to the Ford Com- pany plant on the Rouge. Short= Launching the TWIN CITIES All photos are from the collection of the Reve Edward J. Dowlings Sede hem electric drive. ly afterwards CITIES was renamed DETROITER and TWIN PORTS was renamed CLEVELANDER. In 1932 they were owned by General Motors Corp., of New York. They were made tankers and in 1952 were owned by Cle- veland Tankers Corp. In 1954 both of them were cut up for scrap at Port Dal- housie. W. R. Williams TWIN CITIES at work