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THE ARMISTICE DAY STORM OF 1940--CONCLUSION oe CITY OF FLINT 32 November 1940 Photo courtesy of Rose Hawley Museum of Ludington Steel carferry (US.229316) built in 1930 at Manitowoc, Wisconsin by Manitowoc Ship Building Company (Hull#247) for Pere Marquette Railway as a.) CITY OF FLINT 32: 369 X 57 X 22.6; 3,327 gr oss tons. Cut down to a rail barge by Nicholson Terminal & Dock in 1970, renamed b.) ROANOKE. Still in service between Detroit and Windsor. The self-unloader CONNEAUT was driven aground off of Manistique, Michigan. The U.S. Coast Guard cutter OSSIPEE reported that CONNEAUT had lost her rudder and propeller and had suffered hull damage. She was salvaged and arrived at Mackinaw City under tow of wrecking tug FAVORITE at 18:30 hours on November 14, 1940, and she cleared Mackinaw City at 22:10 hours that evening. The Detroit vessel passages report her passing at 22:40 hours on November 16, 1940, under tow of tugs FAVORITE and ARKANSAS. She was taken to Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge, Michigan. The vessel required extensive repairs and the replacement of 103 plates. The estimated cost of the repairs was $250,000. Captain E£.A. Uhler of the Lake Tanker Corporation's tanker JUSTINE C ALLEN reported she had a broken rudder cable. The crew was attempting to make repairs but were drifting toward the beach between St. Joseph and South Haven, Michigan. The carferry CITY OF FLINT 32 went aground at the height of the storm after missing the breakwater trying to enter Ludington harbor. She was refloated with the aid of a tug and drydocked at Manitowoc. She required replacement of fifteen plates, rudder, starboard propeller and rudder post. Manitowoc Shipyard estimated repairs would take two weeks utilizing both day and night shifts. a The Cleveland Cliffs steamer LA SALLE pulled into Port Arthur, Ontario for examination of a leak in her number one tank, the result of having struck a reef outside that harbor. She had gone to the north shore of Lake Superior to avoid the force of the storm. She was downbound past Detroit on November 15, 1940, for drydocking in Toledo. This steamer was involved in the Big Storm of 1913 under her first name JH SHEADLE (U.S.203628). See December, 1988 “Historian”, Volume 42, \\ number 4. 44-6-2