Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Detroit Marine Historian, v. 19, n. 9 (May 1966), p. 4

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Boh-Lo, Ahoy f PROTOSTATIS RISE AND SHINE all of you Bob-Lo Boat Watchers! Our season is here again. The first boat leaves for Bob-Lo Island at 10 asm. Sunday, May 29, and we'll expect you aboard when the band plays "Anchors Aweigh." The whist- les will blow as we head down the River and at Amherstburg the Fire Department will shower us with their traditionally wet welcome. It'll be a grand occasion. Photo by Coleman Hinckley AFTER numerous mis-adventures on the Lakes, the Greek-regis— tered Liberty ship PROTOSTATIS ran hard aground on Wolfe Is- land on Nov. 16, 1965. She was abandoned by her owner, Marcos of London, and her crew were left without food or heat. After subsisting on Wolfe Island rabbits for several days the crew was rounded up by Canadian offi- cials and returned to their homeland. RODERICK Smith, president of Ship Repairs and Supply, Ltd., Toronto, secured salvage right and set about unloading 6,000 tons of baled scrap, loaded at Detroit, using the old Hall canaller KEYSHEY which had been laying at Kingston await- ing her date with scrappers. PROTOSTATIS was refloated ear- y in February and towed by the tugs G.W.ROGERS and TRAVE= LER through Lake Ontario's ice arriving Feb. 6 in Toronto, the earliest known arrival of a saltwater ship in that port. There she joined another sal- tie, ORIENT TRADER (DMH Oct., 1965) in awaiting an uncertain fate. A STANDARD World War II Liber= ty ship, PROTOSTATIS was buil by St. Johns River Ship Build- ing Co., Jacksonville, Fla., in 1943 as JCHN PHILIP SOUSA. In later years she sailed as b.) ERATO and c.) PAXIARCHIS. Nava Glinr

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