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A. L. HOPKINS as a steam barge The Wabash Fleet (continued) A. L. HOPKINS (US.105937), wooden package freighter built for the fleet by Morley and Hill of Marine City, Michigan in 1880. 174 x 31.5 x 12, 735 gross tons. In 1893 this ship was traded to the Union Dry Dock Company of Buffalo in part payment for the GEORGE J. GOULD. It was cut down to a steam barge (639 g.t.) for the lumber trade. Foundered while downbound lumber laden on Lake Superior near the Michigan Islands, 10-3-1911. Crew rescued by the ALVA C. DINKEY. MORLEY (US.91129), wooden _ package freighter built on speculation by Morley and Hill of Marine City and shortly sold to Lake Erie Transportation Company. 181 x 33 x 14, 869 gross tons. Sold to Traverse City parties in 1888 and renamed GRAND TRAVERSE. Lost, in collision with freighter LIVINGSTON, on Lake Erie near Colchester Shoal, 10-20-1896. S. C. REYNOLDS (US,.116340), iron package freighter built for the line by Union Dry Dock Company, Buffalo in 1890 (Hull #52). 255 x 40 x 21, 1895 gross tons. Passed into Union Streamboat Line in 1911 and renamed JOHN G. McCULLOUGH. Sent to salt water in 1916 and had to be shortened a few feet (at the =3= Bell Photo stern) in order to transit the canals. Lost by enemy action near Ile de Yeu, Bay of Biscay, France, 5-18-1918. Last owner was United States S.S.Company. RUSSELL SAGE (US.110472), wooden package freighter built for the fleet in 1881 by the Union Dry Dock Company, Buffalo (Hull #22). Was sister ship of JOHN C. GAULT. 218x 33 x 18, 1224 gross tons. Sold out of the line around 1907 and reduced to a steam barge (597 g.t.). Became Canadian JOHN C. GAULT (C.138234) and ATLASCO. Engines removed in 1917 and hull used as sand barge. Burned and foundered on Lake Ontario off South Bay, 8-7-1921. Last owner: Sincennes- MacNaughton Lines, Ltd. The large iron tug A. W. COLTON (US.106025), built at Buffalo in 1881 by David Bell Steam Engine Works (Hull #27) was named in honor of the general manager of the Lake Erie Transportation Company. This tug was registered at Toledo in its early years and seems to have been connected with the Wabash Fleet and used to handle the ships at Toledo, Dimensions: 81x 18 x 10, 92 gross tons. In due time it became part of the Great Lakes Towing Company tug fleet. Abandoned and junked in 1945.