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| The Detroit ™ Marine Historian Journal of Marine Historical Society of Detroit Volume 28, No. 10 13951 Faust, Detroit, Michigan 48223 June, 1975 LAUD, was christened at the Bay Shipbuilding Corp. yard in Sturgeon Bay, Wis., on April 15 by Mrs. Edna Laud, widow of the former chairman of General American Transportation Corp. (GATX), for whom the vessel was named. Shown here with Mrs. Laud is Freder- ick G. Jaicke, chairman and chief executive officer of Inland Steel Corpe, who gave the principal address at the christening of the $13 million vessel which is to be delivered to American Steamship Co., a subsidiary of GATX. The new self-unloader has a capacity of 24,062 long tons of iron ore pellets, discharges at a rate of 6,600 gross tons hourly and its 7,000-hp diesels give it a cruising speed of 15.9 miles an hour. fing s Stéamship Company's new 634—-foot self-unloader, SAM