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965 Being Great Lakes news of 60 years ago this month as recorded by "The Marine Review" and with some 1965 notes (designated by underlining) provided by Dave Glick PAL the Superior Ship Building Com- pany, Superior, Wis., the barge CONSTITUTION and steamer VICTORY have both been cut in two and pul- led apart by 72 feet in preparat— ion for lengthening. 1965 finds both vessels still with us although the fate of the CONSTITUTION is in doubt. VICTORY has, of course, been renamed VICTORIOUS. Pittsburgh Steamship Company an- nounced that it would fit out 43 steamers and 18 barges with a to- tal one-trip capacity of 385,646 gross tons for the 1905 season. In 1965 the Pittsburgh Fleet plans to fit out 41 steamers with a total one-trip capacity of about 602,891 gross tons. "George Je Arnold,Mackinac Island, hour schedules instead of fourteen as heretofore." Where can we get tickets? The steamer LAKESIDE opened navi- gation between Sandusky and Kel- leys Island during mid-March. "The Niagara Navigation Company has given an order to the Canadian Shipbuilding Company for a twin- screw steamer to be the same length as the CHIPPEWA. She will be placed on the Lewiston-Toronto route, but is not to come out un- til 1906." All _ who heard Alan Howard at our February dinner meeting know that this was his beloved CAYUGA>. "The Detroit and Cleveland Naviga- tion Company is considering opera— ting a boat between Bay City and who has managed the passenger steamer IROQUOIS for several sea~ Detroit and it is likely that the sons, has chartered her to the CITY OF NEW YORK will be put on Dunkley-Williams Co., for the sum- the run." jets This just goes to show that As of last summer, this same editors made errors in 1905, IROQUOIS was still in service too! The boat was the STATE on Puget Sound, but as a die- OF NEW YORKo sel freight boat rather than as a passenger steamer. The following ships were launched during March, 1905: JAMES C. WAL- "Supt. Ae Ae Schantz, of the De- troit & Cleveland & Buffalo lines, has announced several decided changes in the schedules of the boats for the coming season. For the first time in the history of the line, day trips will be made on Sundays between Detroit and Cleveland and the day trips will be withdrawn on Mondays during June, July and August. Monday will be devoted to boiler cleaning and repairs. The weekend excur- sion rates will apply to passen- gers leaving either terminal Sun- day morning and returning from the other end Sunday night. The boats between Detroit and Buffalo will be put on fourteen and one-half LACE at Lorain, for Acme S.S. Co.3 PHILIP MINCH at Lorain, for Stein- brenner; SYLVANIA at West Bay City for Tomlinson; JAMES E. DAVIDSON at Ecorse, for Inter Ocean S. S. Co., and AMASA STONE at Wyandotte, for Pickands—Mather. March, 1905, was _a_vintage month as all five had long and useful lives without a ingle name change! The JAMES C. WALLACE and JAMES E. DAVIDSON went overseas for scrapping in 1962 and '63 Fesvectively, uu the other three are still with us__although the fate of the AMASA STONE is somewhat _in doubts