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SHIPS THAT MATAAPA (US.150810), steel bulk freighter, 4775 g. $.,430 NEVER DIE x 50 x 28.5. This colorful old Lkker was originall, (#202) named PENNSYLVANIA, and received the name MATAAFA in 1899, a name she was to carry for 66 years. This ship was built on speculation by the Cleveland Shipbuilding Co. in 1899, but before com- pbetion was sold to the Minnesota Steamship Company. She was launched on February 25, 1899 and was a sister ship of the SUPERIOR CITY. MATAAFA had a series of owners including a stint as a "tin-stacker" in the Pitts- purgh Fleet from 1901 until 1946. Her last owner was Nicholson Transit Company, but in her final years she was chartered to T.J.McCarthy Steam- ship Company. MATAAFA's career was almost ended in November of 1905 in one of the best remembered incidents in Great Lakes' history. MATAAFA was involved \ in a severe northeast gale after clearing Duluth on November 27, 1905, with the barge JAMES NASMYTH in tow. Due to the severity of the storm, the MATAAFA dropped her tow (which survived) and attempted to return to Duluth. On November 28, just as the vessel was about to enter the Duluth piers, a big wave drove her against the north pierhead, spun her around, and drove her on the beach north of the harbor canal. Here the waves broke the vessel in two places and coated her with ice. Rescue operations were completed the next day, saving 15 of the crew. Nine men in the aft section were frozen to death. The ship was subsequently salvaged by Capt.Reid and sailed for another sixty years. Even when she arrived at Hamburg, Germany, her final port of call, in 1965, to be scrapped, MATAAFA was noteworthy. She arrived in a tanden tow with the L.S.WESCOAT, once a sister ship in the Pittsburgh Fleet. the Jones & Laughlin Fleet, continued from p.2: | “Miss G-E.Driftmyer JAMES LAUGHLIN, 1906 Ecorse by G.L.E.W. 538 x 56 x 28. Sold to Hindman in 1964 and renamed HELEN EVANS. In service. WILLIAM C.MORELAND, 1910 Lorain by American S.B.Co. 580 x 58 x 32. Wrecked, 1916 on Sawtooth Reef, L.Siiperior. Stern portion sal- vaged and rebuilt, 1916, with new bow as SIR TREVOR DAWSON. Later CHARLES L. HUTCHINSON, GBNE C.HUTCHINSON and PARKDALE.Scrapped SARGENT (ex A.G.BROWER), 1902 Chicago by Chicago S.B.Co for United States Transit Co. 346 x 48 x 24. Acquired by J.& L. in 1916. Sold c.1920 and later named C. 3. NIENABER, S.BLWAY, HOWARD P. ,JR., D.E.CALLENDER, and E.G. MATHIOTT. Scrapped at Hamilton in 1960. Had been converted to self-unloader in 1927. THOMAS WALTERS, 1911 Lorain by American S.B.CO. 580 x 58 x 32. Built as replacement for lost WILLIAM C.MORELAND, and a duplicate of it. Later Wilson and Kinsman's FRANK R.DENTON. In service.