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The Detroit Marine Historian Journal of Marine Historical Society of Detroit Volume 36, No. 8 - April 1983 Published Monthly Annual Dues $8.00 Rev. Peter Vander Linden, Editor - 29825 Joy Road - Westland, Michigan 48185 SHIPS TO BE REMEMBERED FREDERICK B. WELLS FREDERICK B. WELLS This many-named steel bulk freighter was launched on October 5, 1901, as FREDERICK B. WELLS at South Chicago, Illinois, by the Chicago Ship Building Company for the Peavey Steamship Company, Wolvin & Co., managers, primarily for the grain trade. In 1916, the Reiss Steamship Company of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, purchased the vessel for the coal and iron ore trades and renamed it b) OTTO M. REISS (1). In 1918, the tonnage of the vessel was changed to 4,463 gross tons and in 1923 to 4,378 gross tons, primarily to reflect the addition of an after deck house above her original sunken quarters. The Chicago Navigation Company acquired the vessel, which was idled by the Great Depression, in 1931 and, later the same year, the Gartland Steamship Company (Sullivan & Co., Managers) purchased the vessel and renamed her c) SULLIVAN BROTHERS (1) in 1934. This transaction apparently was part of a trade for the steamer LYNFORD E. GEER, Upbound in the St. Clair River Pesha Photo later the OTTO M. REISS (2). The steamer was a familiar sight to all boat watchers who like to see the huge columns of smoke pour from her smokestack and listen to her triple chime whistle. In 1958, Gartland renamed her d) HENRY R. PLATT, JR. (1) shortly before her retirement. The Pillsbury Company of Buffalo, New York, the well-known flour miller, purchased the PLATT, JR. in 1959 to use as a grain storage barge at Buffalo, and renamed the vessel e) PILLSBURY'S BARGE in 1960. She acted in this capacity, never leaving Buffalo Harbor until 1966. The vessel was then purchased by Marine Salvage Ltd., of Port Colborne, Ontario, renamed f) PILLSBURY and taken to Lake Michigan for use as a breakwater at the newly constructed port of Burns Harbor, Indiana. She was filled with stone and sunk there as part of a dock. There she remains to this day.