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ANNOUNCEMENT The May meeting of our Society will be held on Friday evening, May 21 at 8:00 PM. at Divine Child High School Auditorium, 1015 N.Silvery Lane, Dearborn. This will be a movie and slide night. There will be three marine movies. Also, members are asked to bring TEN best and newsworthy slides for showing. Members are also invited to bring their photos & albums, etc. Plan to attend. James E.Morris, Secretary ANNOUNCEMENT The BOB-LO BOATS begin service in the last week of the month. Ride them.' They are among the few steam pass- enger ships left anywhere in the world. ‘They deserve our patronage. E.d.D. LOG Interlake's new big self-unloader now being built at Lorain will be named JAMES R.BARKER, in honor of an official of Interlake's parent company, Moore-McCormack. CANADIAN OLYMPIC will be the name of the new unit of Upper Lakes Shipping, Ltd. presently nearing completion at Fort Weller. There will be a new design on the blue stacks of the C.& O. carferries on Lake Michigan this year. A large yellow and orange disc on the side of the stacks will feature the head of an oversize Cheshire cat. The ferries will take passengers this year. Rev.Peter VanderLinden The RUTLAND (Pesha Photo) BENNINGTON , steel canaller, built at Ecorse in 1908 by Great Lakes En- gineering Works. Sold in 1915 to Alaska Steamship Co., and renamed VALDEZ in 1917. Returned to the Great Lakes in 1923 as BROCTON. Back to coast in W.W.II and finally scrapped at Phillipsdale, R.I. in 1950. BRANDON, Steel canaller, built at Wyandotte in 1910 by Detroit S. B.Co. Bold to Mystic Steamship Co. in 1915. Returned to Great Lakes in 1922 and was scrapped at Chicago in 1946. Had been converted unto a self-unloading bulk freighter in the late Twenties. Never renamed BURLINGTON, steel canaller built at Ecorse in 1903 by Great Lakes Eng. Works. Sold to Alaska SS.Co. in 1915 and renamed JUNEAU in 1917. Came back to the Lakes in 1923 as BACK BAY. Back to salt water in 1942 and finally scrapped at Phillipsburg, R.I. in 1950. WALTER L.FROST, Wooden package freighter, built at Detroit in 1883 by Detroit Dry Dock Co. The first unit of the Rutland Fleet. Stranded on South Manitou I,land, Lake Michigan, 11-4-1903 and abandoned.