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The Detroit Marine Historian Journal of Marine Historical Society of Detroit Volume 35, No. 6 - February, 1982 Published Monthly Annual Dues $8.00 Rev. Peter Van der Linden, Editor - 29825 Joy Road - Westland, Michigan 48185 WILLIAM T. ROBERTS Young Photo Steel bulk freighter (US. 202866) built in 1906 at Wyandotte, Michigan as a) E. D. CARTER by the Detroit Shipbuilding Co. (Hull #162) 510.5 x 53.8 x 26.7, 6,606 gross tons. Renamed b) WILLIAM T. ROBERTS in 1916. Converted to self-unloader in 1932 and renamed c) DOW CHEMICAL (1). Renamed d) NORMAN J. KOPMEIER in 1939. Sold Canadian in 1961 and renamed e) PINEDALE (C. 199403). Scrapped in 1980. Editor's Note: The WILLIAM T. ROBERTS is the focal point of our story this month about the "Big Freeze" of 1926. BOOK REPORT: Upper Lakes Shipping, Inc. has had a new book published entitled, "First Fifty Years in Operation." The book includes a color photograph of each ship in the present fleet, all apparently by Wayne Farrar, as well as black-and-white photographs of many former ships in the fleet. The book may be ordered for $25 (U.S. funds, postage paid) from Macht Distributing, Box 370, Station A, Scarborough, Ont. MIK 5C3. Qur member, Robert C. Palmer, has a good reprint of the "Early History of the Ann Arbor Carferries" by the Fredericksons at $3.95. Write him for information at P.O. Box 1241, Jackson, Michigan 49204. He has more books at a discount!