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£ 6. BARKHAMSTEAD (S) - (US. 217889) likewise was a Bethlehem-Elizabeth product Hull #2124). acquired in 1923 from the U.S. Shipping Board by Pringle Barge Line Company. Worked for Nearly thirty years on the Detroit-Toledo coal run, usually towing Pringle's barge CONSTITUTION. This tug became one of the land- marks of the Detroit River. It is thought by some that only the former passen- ger steamer GREYHOUND made more trips between the two cities than the BARKHAM- STEAD did. It was replaced in 1950 by the new Pringle tug S. M. DEAN, and reduced to a barge. Its intended use did not develop and BARKHAMSTEAD was scrapped on the Detroit side of the Rouge River near the Jefferson Avenue bridge in 1953. (To be continued) The BALLCAMP in winter quarters on the Rouge in the late Twenties. (Ford Motor Company photo ) The BALLENAS passing Sault Ste. Marie on one of her trips into the Lakes. (Young Photo) ae os