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LAKES SHIPPING COMPANY On March 13, 1989, the Ford Motor Company's subsidiary Rouge Steel announced it would sell it's 66 year old marine operations, begun by company founder Henry Ford. The sale ended an era in Great Lakes Shipping. The purchaser was the newly-formed Lakes Shipping Company, a subsidiary of Interlake Steamship Company of Cleveland. Future delivery of iron ore, limestone, and coal to the Rouge Steel Operations in Dearborn was also awarded to Lakes Shipping. With this issue, the Marine Historical Society LEE A TREGURTHA Maiden Voyage, Soo Locks of Detroit highlights the Lakes Shipping | Company. In subsequent issues, we will Chronicle the history of Ford Motor Company's marine operations, including the huge scrapping operation of the surplus World War | lakers. We will conclude with a final update of the Ford Motor Company's fleet list, a list that was first featured in Volume 11, Issues 1 and 2 of the Historian. The Marine Historical Society of Detroit salutes Mr. Barker, Mr. Tregurtha, and all of the employees of the Lakes Shipping Company. photo by Carmen Paris Steel tanker T3-S-A1 type, built in 1942 at Sparrows Point, Maryland by rere Steel Company 6 8 (Hull#4378) for Socony-Mobil Oil Company. Launched as SAMOSET: 487.6 X gross tons. S. Requisitioned by the U.S. Government before documentation named a.) MOBILOIL. Transferred to the U: Navy in 1942 renamed b.) U.S.S. CHIWAWA (AO 68). Documented in 1948 as c.) CHIWAWA (U.S.251505). Purchased by Cleveland Cliffs and arrived in Toledo, OH in April, 1960. New 510 foot midbody built at Hamburg, West Germany by Schleiker Werft and was owed to Lorain, OH and joined to the old bow and stern to make a new bulk freighter: 715.33 X 75 X 36; 11,726 gross tons and renamed d.) WALTER A STERLING in 1961. tenathenes 96 feet at American Ship Building, Lorain, OH in 1976, new euneasiies: 811.46 X 75 X 39; 14,905. Converted to a self unloader at AmShip Lorain and Toledo in 1978. Merce Boiler installed a stern thruster in the STERLING at Toledo in the early 1980's. Renamed e.) WILLIAM CLAY FORD in 1985 and f.) LEE A TREGURTHA in 1989. a 43-2-2