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Steamer PAUL L. TIETJEN - SHIPS THAT NEVER DIE: #219 By Paul C. LaMarre, Jr. In January 1907, at Cleveland, Ohio, Miss Marcella Andrews christened the steel steamer q named for her father, Mr. MATTHEW ANDREWS. Built by the American S.B. Co. for the Kins- man Marine Transit Company, this was the beginning of the ship's 71 year career, In 1913, the ANDREWS became one of the many casualties of the Great Storm. Proceeding down Lake Huron in heavy seas loaded with iron ore, the steamer's Captain decided to anchor rather than attempt to make the St. Clair River. The ANDREWS stranded on Corsica Shoals because the keeper of LIGHTSHIP 61, Corsica Shoals light, neglected to return the lightship back to its proper station after it had been driven two miles off. There were no casualties, however, and the ship was salvaged and repaired. (The steamer D. R. HANNA (1906), of which the ANDREWS was a duplicate, met an ill fate in 1919 in collision with the steamer QUINCY A. SHAW in Lake Huron.) In 1933, the ANDREWS was renamed HARRY L. FINDLAY. In 1954, she was given "new blood" in the form of a three cylinder Skinner Uniflow engine and new boilers at the American Shipbuilding Co., Lorain, Ohio. The year 1965 saw this ship renamed for the last time as PAUL L. TIETJEN. She was well appointed and the favorite of many, having five staterooms with total accommodations for ten. On August 10, 1967 the TIETJEN almost ended her career in collision with the CSL package freighter FORT WILLIAM, 25 miles north of Port Huron. Repaired again, she continued hauling grain, ore, coal, stone, and company guests until July, 1977. At that time, under the command of Captain R. I. McGrath (a Society member and close friend), the TIETJEN sailed into the "Frog Pond" in Toledo, where he rang "finished with engines" for the last time. Little more than a year later in October, 1978 the tug OHIO took the TIETJEN in tow to the Triad Salvage Co. in Ashtabula, Ohio were she was dismantled. On a final note, the TIETJEN was the last boat which Kinsman had built as well as owned q@ throughout her entire career. MATTHEW ANDREWS (1) (721%) Pesha Photo