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"The Pittsburgh Steamship Division is said to be feemane operation of 31 boats for the 1963 cae igation season ie ve: will be placed in perma service by this U. S. steel division former Lee c & Ontario Transportation ee NEW YORK Neu (a.BELVOIR i), earlier re- ported to be dismai ; has been scauized ‘by Buckport Shipping Gee Montreal. a's bulker EDWARD J. BERWIND ast a into pervice this spring as MATTHEW ANDRES McQueen Marine, Ltd Ww eae “under construction at Paasch jHarine, Erie. She will be christened AMHERSTBUR( unconfirmed report Shes it that the MONT- Rost” will be towed to England this spring for rine Tomlinson Fleet Corporation's self-unloa- dees nSyLVANTA (a.SYLVANIA, b.D. ams PHILBIN) and G. A.TOMLINSON ii (a.D.0.MILI is) may don the Reiss peer Company colors this sprin, sunken hull of the and Trunk carferry he MILWAUKEE has been discovered off Racine, Wis., by a fishing trawler. The ferry vanished Oct. 22, 1929, with a crew of 52 and a cargo of 27 railroad freight cars. The hull reportedly is resting upright in 200 feet of water erial Oil's twin LOG both lake and ocean service in the coal and ore trade. While unconfirmed, it is the ne | carrier will be oned by Ltd. Steamship, Ltd., has discontinued ht service and rd Bee fit out the SI ine: ee “Take es ares car- rier GODERICH act poeeee M. HANNA, JR. i, GLEN- SHEE, c.MARQUETTE) may temporarily gical the breakers! Rorchees aid to be headed for operation by Algona | Central a Hudson Bay Railway il Algoma puts w laker into ser= caused the Great Lakes in er of vessel operators many years havi operations until the first oF delayed initial May. The Canadian Oil Companies, Ltd., tanker W. HAROLD REA, completed last summer at Collingwood may, be renamed. Baltimore-based 300-foot passenger steam- er ctr con NORFOLK will enter Lake Erie service, early this summer,according to reliable sources. A new spaeseine com: ny, Can see pier oay Lines, 195 foot self-propelled of Erie, Pa., reportedly will put the 52-year- barges “nearing | completion at Port Weller old steamer into service be’ Sweet Nes and a yet Docks, Ltd be Eilecencd IMPERIAL fhouthe yecerm ace Canadian) port. Following drydock- ii and INPERTAL VERDUN Baltimore, the vesse ill enter the Port Weller Dry Docks has also been awarded a tae to begin service tentatively set for Mem- contract to build a 25,000-dwt self-unloader, rial Day with construction to begin this ri Slated Bill Luk for delivery early in the 1964 navigation seas- uke essel will be built o dime: ns e860" Sa) “x 75" X hk? with all cabin acconmodat- CONTRIBUTORS: George. Ayoub, Ovtauas Howard Hodges, ions aft. To be propelled by a 9,000-hp steam air; Bob Mac » Erie, and turbine, the self-unloader will bé designed for Sohn Pvournelie! American Byron Oades' schooner photo that he thought was Pee the JENNIE WEAVER? Comes now be. REMEMBER good member Loudon G, Wilson to support this belief with some "Here are a few facts about the schooner JENNIE aoe pes Built 1882 at South Haven, Mich. 83 NT -- 97.5' X 22.6" X 7.0'. Crew of 5. (I have no record of the builder, owner, or the Since more than half of the tonnage leaving South Haven about this WEAVER, we may assume built for the west port's fruit trade. This trade sized and very fast fore-and-afters. She appears to fit this category. Shingles, staves anal barrel headings would fill out her sailing season "About 1895 she came under the ownership of E.M.Larson, of Sheboygan, and probably became a mem- ber of the fleet there, which brought Michigan lumber to the mills at 'Sheboygan, where the harbor was lined with assorted craft, mostly sail unloading wood. -iBY 1907 she again changed her Huron. New owner wa « Morley. anal The vesse home port and this time her native lake for Harbor Beach, Lake Very likely it was early in this nertad that the (your) 1, painted like the Lake Michigan 'hookers', still has a fine sl 2 2 Ten years later the JE id lost much of her sheer (the bow overha: 1 sags) and the entire stern quarters and transom droop with years of mon, sunnor es while the shrouds help to sustain the already buoyed-up hull between. This is the way all the old schooners eventually show- per age. Some plans extant today have been drafted from the lines taken from such mochapen "By peu? the JENNIE WEAVER had poet aa of her original sheer and only her Dulwar ks ates wee arliest. of three photos I havi her, given me by the late Captain George lat os 1939" Bien he had retired from a four-year stint as skipper of the tern schooner cP ain ToLiven He Pl f the WEAVER, Captain Fisher said: 'I bought her when I w 5 years old; lived at ator Beach then (I assumed he boughs her from‘Morley about 1915) ‘she was & suert, allen ‘then, I sold her to a By City man (about Mots): whos Fageinse ny: cavieell changed nee te after which she did not sail w "I have two photos of her in this rig which were taken in the St.Clair “iver with brand new suit of sails and her sheer almost completely gone. These three prints do, however, make identification of the Flats Ganal picture as the JENNIE WEAVER with very little doubt Grand Haven rig,