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Che Actroit Marine Historian JOURNAL OF MARINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DETROIT Curtis Haseltine William A, McDonald Edito: William J, Luke Associate Editor 13951, F Associate Editor 3303, Vicksburg Detroit 33 Mich, 1323 Northlawn Detroit 6, Mich. Birmingham, Mich, agen ned tan Associate peastens m s M, Kidd 100 Pindtghall nee 33h Hanbérview a Toronto 5, 01 Toronto 9, Volume 15, No. 3 November, 1961 WALTER A. STERLING (a.CHIWAWA) Photo by Al 8radley Built by Bethlehem Steel Company at Sparrows Point, Md., in 1942 as HULL 4378, a standard 13-S-A1 tanker with dimensions of 501'8" (UA) X 68" X 37". Launched as MOBILOIL but name changed to CHIWAWA prior to completion. Purchased by Clevelend-Cliffs Iron Company from Cities Service Oil Company ear- ly in 1960 and converted for Great Lakes bulk cargo service at the Toledo and Lorain yards of the Am- erican Ship Building Company. Tanker's midsection removed at Lorain and replaced by a 510-foot mid- body constructed by 3chlieker Werft, Hamburg, Germany. Length... 1730 (OA) Propulsion. ..++7000-shp Turbine adtl Pi ° ma 168 Deadwelentr. «22900 ET. Cargo Capacity. ..22400 L.-T. ee NOVEMBER MEETING Mr. Albert M, MacCleery of the Detroit Office of the American Bureau of Shipping will be our speaker at the general meeting at 8 p.m, Satur- day, Nov. 18, The meeting will be held at the J. T. Wing Co., offices HERR AE KR E RE RRR RHEE at 150 Randolph corner of Atwater, where our host will be Bert Piggott.