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EDITORIAL - NEEDED BADLY Once in a while we look for ship photos and cannot find them. The boat is rare, at least photos of the boat are rare, and we cannot write articles about them with- out some sort of photo to go along with them. We are preparing many "Ships That Never Die" articles, and are stymied because we have no photos. Maybe you might know of them in your personal collections or where they might be obtained. Here they are: J. H. OUTWAITE a wooden vessel of 1888. CHARLES J. SHEFFIELD, steel of 1887. SERVIA, wood of 1888. HURONTON, steel, formerly the HURON of the Soo Line. GEORGE L. EATON (1) steel, a sister of the ADRIAN ISELIN. HUGOMA, steel of 1902. A salt water vessel built on the Lakes. PEWABIC, wood; not the drawings but a real photo. This is the one that the METEOR sank. QUEEN OF THE WEST, wood sidewheeler. SAVELAND (US 115227) schr. SCOTIA (US 115271) prop. (iron) JAVA (US 75388) prop. (iron) THOMAS A. SCOTT prop. (1869) wood SEATTLE (US 116524) prop. wood ANNIE YOUNG (US 1760) prop. wood WOCOKEN (US 80778) prop. wood How about it? If you can dig any of these up, let us know, borrow the negative or photo and see it in the HISTORIAN as a "Ships That Never Die". Your photo collection credit will be on the page along with the picture so that all of us may enjoy a rare moment. Fr. Pete American Ship Building Company's Lorain yard is com- Z, ZZ pleting Hull #908, the 1,000-footer for U.S. Steel's % ie E Great Lakes Fleet. She will be christened EDGAR B. a q SPEER, honoring Big Steel's late Chairman. The Lorain facility is scheduled for a $4 million improvement program, to include lengthening and renovation of its Bill Luke, Editor No. 2 drydock and installation of two 65-ton crane towers. ** Initial operation of Republic Steel's new pellet terminal at Lorain is planned for early May. The first phase of the dock's operation will involve rail loadings only, with the vessel loader phase to begin later in the year. ** Cleveland Cliffs' steamer EDWARD B. GREENE is now due to enter American Ship's Toledo yard in July for her conversion to self-unloader. By then, the same project on Interlake's steamer ELTON HOYT 2ND will have been com- pleted. ** The Canadian-flag Soo River Company continues to expand with the pur- chase of Upper Lakes Shipping's steamer GODERICH, recently rechristened SOO RIVER TRADER. The firm's handsome steamer ROBERT S. PIERSON cleared the Welland Canal early on April 3rd bound for a coke cargo at Cleveland on her first trip in Soo River colors. Meanwhile, the company's former steamer PIERSON INDEPENDENT has been acquired by German interests, presumably for dismantling overseas. (See Photo on Page 5.) ** Medusa Cement has sold the steamer C. H. MCCULLOUGH, JR. to Western Metals for scrapping at Thunder Bay. ** The former Inland Steel steamer CLARENCE B. RANDALL is being cut down at Milwaukee for use as a dock there for her owners, Afram Brothers Co. ¥** At this Spring's fitout of Quebec and Ontario Transporta- tion's steamer MARLHILL at Toronto, a crack was discovered in her starboard boiler. Repairs have been deemed too costly and the vessel is now apparently through for further active service. ** By late April, scrapping crews at Hyman-Michaels, (Continued on Page 5) Shs