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CHESTER photo courtesy Peter B. Worden, Sr. collection Steel er Lge gd built in 1931 at River Rouge, Michigan | by id Great i Engineering Works (Hull#277) mf for the Ford Motor Company as a.) tela aar 3.2 X 15.7; 1,819 gross tons. Requisition 4 by the U.S. Maritime Commission during ia War i Sola to Brezitien’ owners in 1947 renamed b) LOURIVAL LISBOA and dc) GUARARAPES in m4949. Final disposition unknown, she was not listed in Lloyds Registry after 1964. EDGEWATER photo courtesy Peter B. Worden, Sr. collection Steel canaller (U.S.230960) built in 1931 at River Rouge, Michigan by the Belay prin oF oe oes Works (Hull#276) for the Ford Motor E Compaty as a) EDGEWATER: 290.7 X 4 26 gross tons. Requisitioned by the U.S. Mariti mission during World War Il, an as me a US. Coast Guard Auxiliary vessel on the East Coast. Converted to a tanker by Bethlehem Steel Company, Staten Island, New York in 1947 renamed b.) ORION and was operated in the lakes by Cleveland Tankers. She was towed from Cleveland on 9/15/64 after being idle there since 12/57. Acme Scrap Iron & Metal in Ashtabula cut her down to a barge and sold her to Toth Inc. of Toledo in 1965 who used her to haul sand. The barge was lost near Lorain, Ohio in the fall of 1968. 43-9-2 -