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COMMODORE (W) - (US. 222863) was a similar conversion from a wooden tug hull built by Universal Shipbuilding Co., at Sturgeon Bay. Upon completion she became the package freighter WAUKEGAN. Her subsequent history is similar to KENOSHA'S, and she too was consumed in the fire of 1935. | COURSER (W) was to have been built at Marine City by S. C. McLouth, but was cancelled before construction was begun. CUSTODIAN (W) - (US. 218783) was built for the United States Shipping Board by M. M. Davis & Sons at Solomon's Island, Maryland. She was purchased in 1922 by the Pringle Barge Line Company and brought to the Great Lakes in that year. Her life here was brief, for she was destroyed by fire, off West Sister Island, Lake Erie, on June 23, 1925. FARMIA and FERALIA were names assigned to a proposed Port Huron shipyard, called the Foundation Company. World War I ended before this shipyard could begin production, so FARMIA, FERALIA and eight other steel tugs were never brought into existence. FIGHTER (W) was to have been built at Marine City by McLouth. However, the contract was cancelled and FIGHTER was never built. to the remaining eight steel tugs which were to have been built at Port Huron by the Foundation Company. They were not built because the shipyard was not completed in time. HIERO and HIMIECO were the names assigned to two steel ocean tugs which were to have been built by a non-existent Buffalo shipyard, called The Lake and Ocean Shipbuilding Co. Work on these tugs never got underway and the contracts were cancelled with the end of the war. (Continued on Page 6) q CUSTODIAN on Lake Erie in the colors of the Pringle Barge Line Company. (Collection of the late Kenneth E. Smith) cae