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THAT NEVER DIE - No.174 Photo from the Author's Collection MAYWOOD (US.202202) was a steel passenger and freight propellor built in 1905 by the Manitowoc Dry Dock Company (HULL #6 an, managing owner, the Escanaba and Gladstone Transportation Com- pany. Dimensions: 130 x 28 x 10.6, 398 gross tons and 358 net tons. The vessel was powered by a triple expansion engine built by the Mar- ine Iron Works of Chicago. MAYWOOD was intended primarily for service on Little Bay de Noc between Escanaba and Gladstone, usually running opposite the older wooden propellor LOTUS of 1893. However, both ves- sels ran on other routes from Escanaba and Gladstone to the, Green B. islands and nearby northern Lake Michigan ports. Our illustration shows MAYWOOD at Washington Island in 1913. In 1915 MAYWOOD was sold to the Hill Steamboat Line of Kenosha, wWis., and sailed on lower Lake Michigan briefly. The vessel was purchased in 1917 by James W. Elwell & Company, New York brokers, acting for the French Government. She left the Lakes via the St. Lawrence in that year and was renamed INCA on her arrival across the Atlantic. It is said that she was converted into a salvage tug. No record of the vessel appears in the French "Bureau Veritas" listing after World War for James B. Mor- 255 Fr. Edward J. Dowling Coast Guard cutter ACACIA punched a hole in her bow March 30 while breaking ice at Calcite, Mich. She veered and struck the corner of a steel dock. Cutter NAUGATUCK damaged rudder at Port Dolomite and cutter ARUNDEL damaged rudder at Port Inland. Cutter MESQUITE es-_ corted latter two to Sheboygan for repairs. KAW replaced them.