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The Detroit 1 Marine Historian Journal of Marine Historical Society of Detroit Volume 20, Noe 7 March, 1967 THOMAS MAYTHAM Photo Courtesy Ken Smith Misadventures of the THOMAS MAYTHAM By Capt. H. M. Gates The fall months of 1926 took a larger toll of ships on the Great Lakes than they had in several years. In the last days of October, the S/S THOMAS MAYTHAM of the General Transit Company, with Captain Edgar Recor as master, passed upbound at the Soo Locks in ballast for Duluth and a load of flax for Chicago. It was a bright, sunny afternoon but the barometer had been falling so a blow out of the northwest was not too far off. After having passed Whitefish Point and set the course for the Keweenaw Peninsula, the weather became much worse so that the course was changed to the south so that the ship would go through the Portage Canal and miss the rough water that she would encounter going around the point. But by 3 a.m. on Friday it was so bad that the shin was pounding heavily. In fact, it was hard for the wheelsman to keep the ship somewhere near to the Sas Continued on Page Two