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The Detroit Marine Historian Journal of Marine Historical Society of Detroit December, 1976 Volume 30, No. 4 Rev. Peter J. Van der Linden, Editor, 4190 Green Dr., Harsens Island, Michigan 48028 INTRODUCING Photo by Peter Worden JOSEPH L. BLOCK The new steel self-inloader, the JOSEPH L. BLOCK, built for the Inland Steel Co., was launched at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin at the Bay Shipbuilding Company on Febru- ary 26, 1976. She is 728 feet in length(oa), and left the shipyard in early August to begin carrying taconite pellets to the Inland Steel Works at Indiana Harbor on lower Lake Michigan. Already this year, the JOSEPH L. BLOCK has made two trips to Lake Erie ports with iron ore. The vessel is similar to the SAM LAUD, but her Inland Steel paint job makes her one of the more "dressed up" vessels to come out of the shipyards these past few years. Welcome to the new JOSEPH L. BLOCK. ANNOUNCEMENT: General Membership Meeting, January 21, 1977, 8:00 p.m. at the Grosse Pointe War Memorial, 32 Lake Shore Rd., Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. Speaker: Fr. Edward J. Dowling, S.J., "Great Lakes Tankers." No December meeting due to holidays. Secretary James E. Morris Season's Greetings to All.