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The Detroit Marine Historian Journal of Marine Historical Society of Detroit Volume 33, No. 9 May, 1980 Rev. Peter J. Van der Linden, Editor, 4190 Green Dr., Harsens Island, Michigan 48028 Published Monthly E Annual Dues $8.00 INTRODUCING AMERICAN MARINER Harmann Studios Photo Steel self-unloader (US. 619736) built in 1980 by Bay Shipbuilding Co. at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. (Hull #723) 730 x 78 x 45; 15,396 gross tons for the American SS. Co. Boland, Cornelius christened April 15, 1980. Departed Escanaba on April 18, 1980 on maiden trip with iron ore for Ashtabula © ANNOUNCEMENTS - Our May meeting will be at 4:00 PM on Saturday, May 17th, at the Museum of Arts and History, 1115 Sixth Street, Port Huron. Our Speaker will be Allen Sykes of Welland, Ontario, who will show slides of a trip on the MC WATTERS to Thunder Bay, a second trip on the V. W. SCULLY to Duluth and slides of the Welland Canal with some showing passages of 20 years ago.