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ES) os wn ADVENTURER (W) - Only the hull of this tug was completed by S. C. McLouth at Marine City, Michigan when the contracts were cancelled. ‘The hull was later sold to the Peerless Portland Cement Company of Port Huron and Detroit and renamed PEERLESS NO. 1. This barge was documented around 1932 (US. 170399). It was later owned by the Dunbar & Sullivan Dredging Company by whom it was abandoned at Stoney Island in the lower Detroit River in 1945. AMBASSADOR (W) - McLouth's contract for this tug was cancelled in 1919 and the tug was never built. BALLCAMP (S) - (US. 217673) was built at Elizabeth, New Jersey by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company (Hull #2125). Her triple expansion engines were also built by Bethlehem. Sold commercially by the U.S.S.B. in 1925 to the Ford Motor Company along with six similar tugs. Used by Ford in the late Twenties to tow vessels to Dearborn for scrapping. In the 1930's BALLCAMP (renamed BARLOW in 1932) operated on the Great Lakes handling the Ford barges. She returned to salt water during World War II and was reported scrapped in 1958. BALLENAS (S) - (US. 217679) also was built at Elizabeth by Bethlehem (Hull #2122). Engines also built by the shipbuilder. Operated in the coastwise barging trade for many years by the W. E. Hedger Transportation Company of New York. Occasionally came into the Great Lakes with oil barges. Later named KEVIN MORAN and L.T. 348. After the second war was sold to owners in the Philippine Islands and renamed again, CABRILLA. Meanwhile it had been repowered by a Fairbanks, Morse diesel engine. CABRILLA was listed in Lloyd's Register as late as 1974. BALLEW (S) - (US. 217678) was another Bethlehem hull (#2123) and engine job. Purchased war surplus from the Shipping Board in 1923 by the Detroit Sulphite Transportation Company. The tug was renamed SULPHITE in 1927, and was trans- ferred in 1938 to its owner's Canadian division, Driftwood Lands and Timber Co., Ltd., becoming SULPHITE (C. 170560). Operated until 1966 when it was scrapped by its last owner, Hindman Transportation Company. Throughout its 43 years on the Great Lakes, BALLEW-SULPHITE kept its attractive original appearance unchanged. (Continued on Page 4) The hull of the wooden tug ADVENTURER on the ways at Marine City before her launch in 1918. This hull was completed as the barge PEERLESS NO. 1. (Author's Collection) ie es