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ANNOUNCEMENT: Our Society's annual Dinner Meeting will be held on Sat- urday Evening, April 24th, at 6:00 PM at Sid's-on-the- Seaway, North River Road above Aigonac. The tariff is $8.00 for all you can eat of Pickerel, Chicken or Beef. Our fellow member Dave Glick will give an illustrated presenta-\_ tion on the subject of Self-Unloading Bulk Freighters of the Lakes. We will also have the presentation of the Great Lakes Marine H;storian of the Year Award. Please send the enclosed reservation form to the Dinner Chairman, Mr.Russ Parkinson, at9925 Melrose, Livonia, Mi.48150. Do not send Money - tickets will be purchased at the door. James E.Morris, Secretary. JOSEPH L.BLOCK, Inland', newest carrier, was launched at Bay Bay Shipduilding on February 26. U.S.Steel has contracted with the same yard for a bulk freighter, presently planned for 1000 ft. length, but with opticn to increase to 1100 feet if permitted. One of the guard gates for Poe Lock was damaged recently, and the lock closed for the winter. The U.S.Coast Guard tug NAUGATUCK was taken recently to Sturgeon Bay for repairs to damage sustained in ice on St.Mary's River, Reoch has purchased W.F.WHITE, which will become ERINDALE, and FRED A.MANSKE (ex J.S.ASHLEY), which will be BROOKDALE. GULF GATINEAU and GULF McKENZIE are the names of the two new tankers under construction at Marine Industries, Ltd., Sorel for Gulf Oil, Canada, td. Rev.Peter VanderLinden THE LOG STEWART FURNACE COMPANY Harvey H.Brown & Co.operated the five vessels listed below for the Stew- art Furnace Company during the early years of the present century. The fleet was disbanded in 1929. The colors of the ships were red hulls, white cabins, bright orange-red stacks and yellow spars. M.A.BRADLEY, 1908 Ecorse by Great Lakes Engineering Works for M.A. Bradley, Cleveland. Acquired by H.H.Brown & Co in 1916. Sold to Nicholson-Universal in 1929 and renamed GRAHAM C.WOODRUFF. Later named FRED L.HEWITT and EVERETTON. Scrapped in Europe in 1968. FAYETTE BROWN (ex CHARLES L.HUTCHINSON), 1910 Lorain by American S.B. for Wineman of Detroit. Transferred to Interlake in 1930. Sold for scrap, 1964 and stranded on Anticosti Island while under tow to Europe. (Continued, bottom of P.4)