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ISCHUA (S) - was the name assigned to a tug which was to have been built at Buffalo, New York by the Lake and Ocean Shipbuilding Co. The contract was cancelled at the end of the war and ISCHUA was never built. KALEEN (S) - (US. 219175) was Hull #60 at the Whitney Yard in Superior. After a few years of service for the U.S. Shipping Board, this tug was sold to the Southern Thenoprericn Company of Philadelphia and was assigned to barge towing on the Atlantic Coast. McAllister Brothers Towing Co. of New York acquired KALEEN in 1947, and scrapped her in 1950. KESHENA (S) - (US. 218727) was Whitney's Hull #55. She, too, went from the U.S. Shipping Board to Southern Transportation in 1922 and served this owner until World War II. On July 19, 1942 KESHENA was assisting the torpedoed Esso tanker J. A. MOWINCKEL off Ocracoke, North Carolina when she struck a mine and sank. KIOKEE (S) - (US. 218728) was also built at Superior by Whitney Brothers as their Hull #56. In 1922 the United States Shipping Board sold this tug to P. Dougherty Co. of Baltimore, in whose ownership she served for thirty years until scrapped in 1. KIRON (S) - (US. 218729) was Whitney's #57. She passed out of U.S. Shipping Board service in 1922 and was renamed A. L, WALKER by her new owners, Eastern Transporta- tion Co. of Wilmington, Delaware. A. L. WALKER continued work in coastal barge towing until scrapped in 1948. KITCHIE (S) ~ (US. 218730) was built at Superior, Wisconsin by Whitney as Hull #58. Like the other Whitney-built U.S.S.B. tugs, the power plant was a Filer & Stowell triple expansion steam engine. KITCHIE was renamed DUNMORE in 1922 by P. Dougherty Co., Baltimore. She was scrapped in 1951. KOLDA (S) - (US. 219176) was another Whitney Tug (#59). In 1922 the Shipping Board sold her to Eastern Transportation Co. of Wilmington, Delaware. At this time her name was changed to MONTROSE. MONTROSE lasted until 1948 and was then scrapped. (To be continued) Eastern Transportation Company's A. L. WALKER (ex KIRON) Passing Old Point Comfort, Virginia in 1933 Photo by the late R. Loren Graham =~ea