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Graceful sweep of the Mackinac BridgeeThe KEE passes directly underneath at the close of the 1965 season. ‘There was encugh package freight between the two CPR terminals for only one boat and the oil-burning ASSI:IBOIA was chosen over the coal-burning KEE to remain in this service. AS THE KEE left the dock, a little knot of faithful friends, huddled under the protection of the train depot's broad eaves, waved their sad farewell. Some of the women wept openly. AND THEN from the KEEWATIN came a last salute that echoed from the grain elevator to the low hill behind the town. The boil- ers of the KEE were cold and the salute came from a _ portable, tape recorder in the pilothouse. The salute was from the KEE but the "voice" was the throaty sound of the ASSINIBOIA, re- corded when the ASSINIBOIA gave her final salute to the KEE the last time she left Port McNicoll. ba CAPT. CLIFF Morrison gently maneuvered the old steamer out through the cluster of islands that surrouncs the entrance to Port McNicoll. Once in the open lake, the towline was unreeled and the KEE followed docilely in the wake of the powerful tug. THE "CREW" aboard the KEE included her new owner, retired Gary (Ind.) steel mill executive Roland E. (Pete) Peterson, a good share of Saugatuck's village officials, some old Gary asso- ciates and two crewmen off the AMHERSTBURG, "Sonny" Boulton and Jim Stutts. Also aboard was the last Chief of the KEEWATIN, Gordon Gervais, of Victoria Harbour. DURING A LULL in the long haul along Michigan's western shore, Chief Gervais settled into a chair in the observation lounge The convoy up the Kalamazoo River e Village officials become deckhands