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The Detroit ’ Marine Historian w Journal of Marine Historical Society of Detroit Volume 22, No. 6 February 1969 Fitting farewell to Columbia's old BUCKEYE is this photo by John Bas- com Jr., of the craneboat being towed down the Welland by the tugs GRAEME STEWART and G.W.ROGERS for Kingston where she lays this winter before being towed overseas for scrap>oing. The old girl balked at leaving the Lakes, running aground two miles west of Port Colborne while anchored waiting for a tow into the Welland. BUCKEYE, built at the Wyandotte yard of Detroit Shipbuilding in 1901 as DAVID M. WHITNEY later became b.EDWIN L. BOOTH, c.G.N.WILSON and d.THOMAS BRITT. She was converted to a craneboat in 1943 with two revolving 75-foot cranes Fellow member Emery Gulash will present a program on "Ships of the Great Lakes," including some of his own movies, at 8 p.m., Saturday, March 15, in the River Room of the Pick-Fort Shelby Hotel. On April 19 it's a "Marine Film Festival" at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum.