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ODDS 'N ENDS BOOKS: Member Skip Gillham's new book Ten Tales of the Great Lakes" is now available for $9.95 complete. It is a very good book and can be obtained from Stonehouse Publications, 140 Welland Avenue, St. Catharines, Ontario L2R 2N6. The Wisconsin Marine Historical Society announces its forthcoming publication of "Six Fitzgerald Brothers - Lake Captains All" by Elizabeth F. Cutler and Walter M. Hirthe in November 1983. It is the story of the Fitzgeralds of Port Huron and Milwaukee. The volume will sell for $14.95 plus $1.50 postage and handling. Advance orders are now being taken and should be sent to the Wisconsin Marine Historical Society, Local History and Marine Room, 814 W. Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53233. UNIDENTIFIED SAILING OBJECTS: As we go to press, quite a few members have written to identify the seven photos in last month's Historian. ere are some of their replies: Photo #1 is definitely BRITANNIA, former Bill Luke, Editor The Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway formally dedicated its $26 Million ore shiploading facility at Duluth on August 11th. Columbia Transportation Company's 1,000-foot COLUMBIA STAR was on hand to receive a 61,428 gross ton pellet cargo during the festivities, the largest cargo ever handled by DM&IR at Duluth. Six days earlier, the COLUMBIA STAR had loaded 62,968 gross tons of pellets at Silver Bay to establish the all-time record cargo for any Lake Superior port. *** Interlake Steamship's 1,000-foot MESABI MINER cleared Detour Village in mid-September, ending her temporary layup. *** On July 11th, firefighters were called to Western Metals' scrapyard at Thunder Bay to extinquish a blaze in the partially-dismantled hull of the steamer LIONEL PARSONS. *** Johnstone Shipping's self-unloader CONALLISON has been sold to Marine Salvage of Port Colborne under Canadian Federal court order. J 's smaller CONDARRELL went to Marine Salvage earlier cross-river ferry at Detroit. Six members in all have called that one. Photo #2 Fr. Dowling thinks the vessel is either the POWELL STACKHOUSE or her sister, LEONARD C. HANNA... reason the shield on her stack MS Co., Mahoning Steamship Company. Ken Thro from Hayward, Wisconsin, says it is the B. F. BERRY. Ken also says that Photo #4 is the Pittsburgh SS Co.'s HARVARD. William H. Morris of Rochester and Mrs. Charles H. Maltby of Syracuse, New York, identify photo #5, NEHASANE, originally hyphenated NA-HA-SA-NE, as one of three ' small steamboats on the waters of the Fulton Chain of Lakes in the Adirondac Mountains of N. Y. State at the turn of the century. Stephan Gmelin of Cranford, N.J. says that Photo #6 is Lake Chautauqua's CITY OF NEW YORK. Ken Thro identifies Photo #7 as Whaleback Barge 134. It is convincingly stated by Ken and leaves no doubt about it. So far, Photo #3, the tugs, has not been identified. That's all we have for now. Thanks to all who wrote. We will have another USO in the near future. Fr. Pete for intended resale to East Coast operators. +#*#* Workers at Collingwood Shipyards in early September voted to end their three-month strike. Launch of CSL's 736-foot "Sulker", PRAIRIE HARVESTER, is now scheduled for October 18th. *** Since the early stages in our economy's downturn, the U.S. flag Lake fleet seems to have been the hardest hit, with our neighbors in Canada far less affected. However, in early June, out of 155 vessels registered, 31 Canadian Lakers were idle. That number had increased to 41 by August 1st. *** The Canadian St. Lawrence Seaway Authority has announced that Welland Canal lockage fees will not be increased in 1984. *** The 1982-83 crop year ended at Thunder Bay on July 31st with a new record established. Over nineteen million metric tons of grain were handled, exceeding the old mark by almost two million tons. *** While prospects for the future of Ford's 4-boat fleet now appear brighter, in mid-September only two units were in service. The HENRY FORD Il continued in the coal run between Toledo and the Rouge, while the steamer ERNEST R. BREECH was e between Duluth and Buffalo. a ngaged in the wheat trade