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The Detroit Marine Historian Journal of Marine Historical Society of Detroit Volume 34, No. 12 - August 1981 Published Monthly Annual Dues $8.00 Rev. Peter Van der Linden, Editor - 29825 Joy Road - Westland, Michigan 48185 INTRODUCING: AMERICAN REPUBLIC Photo by Richard Nicholls Steel self-unloader (US. 633579) built in 1980-81 for the American Steamship Company (Boland & Corneilius) at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin by the Bay Shipbuilding Company. (Hull #724) 623.3 x 68.0 x 40.0; 12,158 gross tons. Shown above on her first trip v up the Cuyahoga River to Republic Steel in Cleveland.