The Detroit Marine Historian Journal of Marine Historical Society of Detroit Volume 32, No. 5 Rev. Peter J. Van der Linden, Editor, 4190 Green Dr., Harsens Island, Michigan 48028 Annual Dues $5.00 January 1979 Published Monthly INTRODUCING GEMINI Photo by Leonard J. Barr II Steel tanker (US. 596154) built in 1978 by the Levingston Shipbuilding Company, Orange, Texas (Hull #745) for Cleveland Tankers, Inc.; 430 x 65 x 29.3; 5,854 gross tons (75,000 barrels). Passed upbound through the Welland Canal on September 8, 1978 with fuel oil from Houston for Detroit. Christened at Huron, Ohio on October 28, 1978 by Mrs. Charles J. Luellen, wife of the Group Vice President, Supply and Transportation, Ashland Petroleum Co. (Division of Ashland Oil, Inc.) Largest U.S. flag tanker to sail the Great Lakes.