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GSH IPS THATWEVER DIE-N0.196 | Photo Glow the Author's Collection GRECIAN (US 86136) Steel combination freighter built at Cleveland in 1891 by the Globe Iron Works (HULL #40) for the Menominee Transit Company. Dimensions of the vessel were: 296’ x 40’ x 21’, 2348 gross tons. GRECIAN was one of six sister vessels built by Globe in 1890 and 1891 for the same owners. The others were BRITON (#39), GERMAN (#38), NORMAN (#36), ROMAN (#41) and SAXON (#37). These ships had black hulls, black stacks with blue shield and monogram and natural stained wood cabins. Like so many of the Globe-built freighters of the early 1890s, they were well proportioned and handsome in appearance. With the exception of NORMAN, lost by collision in 1895, these vessels became part of the Pittsburgh Steamship Company fleet at the time of its organization in 1901. On June 7, 1906, GRECIAN ran aground on the rocky shore near Detour, Mich. and suffered considerable bottom damage. She was refloated and temporarily repaired at Detour and then taken in tow by the SIR HENRY BESSEMER, bound for Detroit and drydocking. In a storm on Lake Huron on June 16, 1906, the GRECIAN foundered The other four units of the original group were still on the Lakes when World War I broke, and all were sent to the coast after having been cut in two and bulkheaded through the Welland and St. Lawrence canals. On the coast GERMAN was promptly renamed YANKEE and on June 11, 1919, was sunk in col- lision off Fire Island, N.Y. ROMAN was sold French after the war and renamed LIBERTAS. She foun- dered 350 miles east of Sandy Hook, N.J., on Nov. 11, 1919, while on delivery to France. SAXON was sold to Danish owners and drops out of Lloyd’s Register around 1928, after having been renamed ANNE JENSEN. BRITON returned to the Great Lakes in the early 1920s and was wrecked near Buffalo on Nov. 13, 1929. The Rev. Edward J. Dowling, S.J.