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ANDASTE PHOTO FROM THE AUTHOR'S COLLECTION ANDASTE, Steel “‘straight-back” SHIPS THAT steamer, built for the Lake Super- NEVER DIE | ior Iron Co., in 1892 by the Cleve- NO. 146 land Ship Building Co., as their HULL No, 16. She was 266 feet long between perpendiculars, 38 feet beam, 22 feet, 4inches depth. She had a net tonnage of 1,265 tons, gross tonnage of 1,573 tons and a capacity of 3,000 tons. There were seven hatches and one compart- ment with “hold beams’’. Her official number was U.S.106925. She was powered by a triple-expansion engine 17 x 29x 47 with a 36-inch stroke, which gave 900i.h.p. at 90 revolutions. Steam was supplied by two scotch boilers, 11 feet in diameter and 12 feet in length with two furnaces per boiler. There was a total of 84 sq. feet of grate surface and 2,746 sq. feet of heating surface. The boilers had a working steam pressure of 160 p.s.i. (Ship was reboilered in 1906 with sim- ilar type boilers but having a working pressure of 165 p.s.i.) ANDASTE was operated by her original owners until 1898 at which time the Lake Superior Iron Co. sold their marine properties, the ANDASTE being purchased by Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co. Her sister ship, CHOCTAW, was also acquired by Cliffs at this time. ANDASTE and CHOCTAW had the distinc- tion of being the only ‘‘Cliffers” to have red hulls, the reason being that on account of the sharp “‘tum- ble-home” to the ship’s sides, iron ore would stick to the sides and leave red stains. They were then painted an iron ore red to hide the stains. The ANDASTE was operated in the upper lake trade in the coal, iron ore and grain trade, and in later years in the pig iron trade until 1920. At this time larger and faster freighters had made ANDAS- TE obsolete, and the pig iron trade from upper Michigan was about run out. In the winter 1920-21 ANDASTE was shortened by 24 feet to allow her to negotiate the Welland Canal and the St. Law- rence River canals. The photo above shows her in that trade in 1922 and was taken by my father, the late Captain Milton J. Brown, Sr. In 1925 she was sold to the Cliffs- L. D. Smith S. S. Co., which was operated by Mr. Leatham D. Smith, of Sturgeon Bay, Wis. At this time she was converted to a sandsucker. Again in 1928 (as near as I can ascertain) she was sold to the Andaste Steamship Co., of Cleveland, and was managed and operated by Construction Ma- terial Co., of Chicago. On Sept. 9, 1929, ANDASTE was lost with all hands, 25 persons, near Muskegon on Lake Michigan. As an after thought, her sistership also met a vio- lent end. CHOCTAW was lost in a collision with the Canadian steamer WAHCONDA in 1916 on Lake Huron. Milton J. Brown David pu Pres: 24401 Evenson Dearborn, Mich. William J. Luke Birmingham, Mich. John Canpbett Treasure: 1575 Clevelai and Lincoln Park, Mich. Robert Zelegnik Secretary 877 Universit Grosse Pte., Pl. iche