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On one trip in the month of August, I took over the wheel at 6:15 p.m., as we were going through the Straits of Mackinac, then turned south into Lake Michigan. We were sailing along very smoothly. About 9 o'clock, a severe wind q and rain storm came upon us. In a short time I noticed the compass was moving off course. I gave the wheel a full turn to port, then shortly a second full turn. Then, after a few minutes, a third full turn; within minutes, a fourth turn to hard' a port. A couple of minutes more and she was still going off course. A new car being driven up the ramp. Up onto the deck of the RICHLAND QUEEN I called up to Captain McNally ha’ we are still going off course." He raised the cover, looked at me, and very casually said, "Jim, just hold it there. The old QUEEN just hasn't got the strength to fight a storm like this one." In about a half hour the compass started to ease to it through the storm, and very much relieved on what might have happened. When it was all figured out, we had been blown ten miles off course, nearing the shoal areas. Willys-Knights, Graham-Paiges and Maxwells aboard the steamer on her way hee