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THE CROSBY FLEETS - PART 4 This is last of the series and the author is indebted to the late Messrs. William A. McDonald, Edward N. Middleton and Herman G. Runge for information found in their notes and which were used in the preparation of this fleet list. The colors of the Crosby ships and their successors were generally black hull, white cabins and @@™ yellow stack with black tops. For a year or two around 1920, the MUSKEGON and the £.G. CROSBY (iii) carried black stacks with a narrow tan or brown band. A few of the passenger ships carried white hulls briefly at different times. Otherwise the colors named above where standard for the fleet. oe w PETOSKEY Author's Collection PETOSKEY (U.S. 150425) Wooden passenger and freight propellor built at Manitowoc by Rand & Burger in 1888 for the Seymour Transportation Company, Manistee. 171 x 30 x 12; 770 gross tons. Chartered at various times by nearly every steamship line on Lake Michigan, including Crosby. Destroyed by fire at Sturgeon Bay, December 5, 1935. The ship had been laid up for several years previously. Last reported owner was Goodrich-West Ports Navigation Company, Milwaukee. UNITED STATES Author's Collection on UNITED STATES (U.S. 206330) Steel day passenger ship, built by Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company ~ (Hull 28) in 1909 for Indiana Transportation Co., Chicago. 193 x 41 x16; 1374 gross tons. Sold to coast buyers in 1917 and lengthened to 247 feet at New York. Had been leased to Crosby, c. 1910. Returned to Great Lakes in 1924. Sold Canadian in 1929 (C. 154476). Badly damaged by fire and renamed BATISCAN (Canada SS Lines). Scrapped at Sorel, Quebec in 1944.