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The Detroit Marine Historian Journal of Marine Historical Society of Detroit Volume 36, No. 3 - November 1982 Published Monthly Annual Dues $8.00 Rev. Peter Van der Linden, Editor - 29825 Joy Road - Westland, Michigan 48185 SALVAGING THE STEAMER GEORGE M. HUMPHREY By Charles Asher, Jr. Part I GEORGE M. HUMPHREY (i) Photo by Captain W. J. Taylor Steel bulk freighter (US. 226276) built in 1927 for Kinsman Transit Co. by American Shipbuilding Co. at Toledo, Ohio (Hull #796): 580 x 60 x 32; 8,004 gross tons. kRRKK The following was written as a high school project in 1958 by Charles Asher, Jr. as an account of his Grandfather's raising of the GEORGE M. HUMPHREY (i). The essay and the salvage photographs were compiled by Hilda Roen Asher in 1977 and donated to the Sturgeon Bay Marine Museum. We are indebted to Captain Gene R. Gislason for arranging their loan so that they can be presented in the Historian. wo RRRKK On June 15, 1943 after a collision in fog with the steamer D. M. CLEMSON, the 600 foot long ore, coal and grain carrier GEORGE M. HUMPHREY sank in the Straits of Mackinac a mile and a half Northeast of Mackinac City, Michigan. The HUMPHREY was built in 1927 and was valued at $1,600,000 by her owner, the Kinsman Transit Company of Cleveland. The HUMPHREY was the largest ship ever to sink in the Great Lakes.