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FORD MOTOR COMPANY In March of 1989, Ford Motor Company's Rouge Steel subsidiary announced it was selling it’s marine operations to Lakes Shipping Company, a subsidiary of Interlake Steamship Company of Cleveland. The sale ended a sixty-six year era in Great Lakes shipping, especially for us in the Detroit area. To commemorate the event, in the October 1989 HISTORIAN, we profiled the Lakes Shipping Company, purchasers of the Ford fleet. In the November 1989 through January 1990 HISTORIANS, we featured Wayne Garrett's excellent article on Ford Motor Company's scrapping of surplus BALLCAMP World War | lakers. Beginning with this issue, we will complete our tribute to Ford Motor, Company with a final update of Ford's fleet list, first featured in Volume 11, Issues 1 and 2 of the HISTORIAN. This issue will highlight seven of the ten tugs owned by Ford. The United States Shipping Board Ocean Tug Program during World War | was featured in a Father Dowling series found in Volume 22, Issues 5 through 10 of the H/STORIAN. During it's history, Ford Motor Company owned seven of the sixty-eight Shipping Board tugs built. photo courtesy U of D Marine Collection Steel tug (U.S.217673) built in 1919 at Elizabeth, ts Jersey by eve Shipbuilding Company (Hulls2125) for The U.S. Shipping Board as a.) BAI LLCAMI in 1932. eee the lakes after being requisitioned by the U.S. by Ford in 1925, renamed b.) BARLOW : 142 X 27.7 X 14. gross tons. Purchased vermnmat during World War || and was abandoned and scrapped in 1958. ~~ 43-6-2