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JOHN V. MORAN (US. 76748), wood package freighter built by F. W. Wheeler & Co. at Bay City for the Crescent Transportation Co.: 214 x 37 x 22; 1,350 gross tons. Fore and aft engine by Hodge. Chartered to Lehigh Valley on and off in the Nineties. Cut through by ice and sunk off Muskegon, Michigan on February 7, 1899 while under charter to Crosby Trans. Co. I, W. NICHOLAS (US. 100589), steel freighter built by Cleveland S.B. Co. in 1894 for Minch & Nicholas: 328 x 42 x 27; 2,624 gross tons. Triple expansion engines by the shipyard. Chartered to Lehigh Valley during season of 1900. Later Canadian and American INLAND. Scrapped at Buffalo, 1937. OCEANICA (US. 155040), wooden bulk freighter built at W. Bay City by James Davidson and sold to Lehigh Valley fleet upon completion: 263 x 37 x 20; 1,490 gross tons. Fore and aft engine by Hodge. Sold out of fleet in 1900. Damaged by fire at Montreal in 1919 and abandoned in 1921. Was to have been renamed COLUMBUS when damaged and eventually abandoned. ee, $2-0o LV¥E 4G (to be continued) OCEANICA Young Photo wRKKK HISTORIAN OF THE YEAR At the annual dinner meeting on April 25, 1981 at the Dossin Museum, the Society's “Historian of the Year" award was presented to Mr. James M. Kidd of Toronto. native of that city, his early interest centered on the Welland Canal and has since expanded to the entire Great Lakes area. He has been a member of the Marine Historical Society for more than thirty years, as well as a founding member and treasurer of the Toronto Marine Historical Society. He joins the following recipients of the Society's annual award: William A. McDonald, 1969 Loudon Wilson, 1975 Capt. Frank E. Hamilton, 1970 Capt. H. C. Inches, 1976 Fr. Edward J. Dowling, S.J., 1971 Fr. Peter J. Van der Linden, 1977 Erik Heyl, 1972 Dr. Richard J. Wright, 1978 John H. Bascom, 1973 C. Patrick Labadie, 1979 Dana T. Bowen, 1974 Gordon P. Bugbee, 1980