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RESTORED HURON LIGHTSHIP OPENED TO PUBLIC by William J. Luke The July 1970 issue of our Detroit Marine Historian carried the following entry in the “Log” feature: Port Huron is studying the possibility of preserving the Lightship HURON as a marine museum when she is withdrawn from service on August 21." Those plans were finally brought to fruition this past August 2nd, nearly twenty years later, when the refurbished HURON Lightship was officially dedicated a National Historic Landmark by the National Park Service division of the U. S. Department of the Interior and opened to the public as a museum at Port Huron’s Pine Grove Park. Built by Consolidated Shipbuilding a ald at Morris Heights, New York in on a contract price of $161,074, a pein at Milwaukee in June of 1921 to begin her Great Lakes career as a relief vessel at Lake “ Michigan's Grays Reef and North Manitou Shoal stations. Placed on duty in the Lake Huron Cut permanently in 1935, she was the third lightvessel assigned that area. The first HURON was an 80-foot wooden craft, schooner-rigged, built by Craig at Toledo in 1893 as Lightvessel No. 61. She was in service there from 1893 until 1920 when replaced by a second vessel, Lightvessel No. 96, a 101-footer built at Muskegon. Her duty lasted through the 1934 season. The writer recalls that lightship having been painted red, positioned on the east side of the Cut. Initially, the lightship station was abeam Corsica Shoal, at the present location of Buoys 3 and 4. As the size of commercial vessels increased through the years, the lightship station was moved further out into the lake. When withdrawn in August of 1970, the HURON had been anchored opposite Lakeport. Buoys 11 and 12 currently mark the channel's entrance. HURON Entering Black River on her retirement day—August 21, 1970 44-10-2 X Photo by Douglas Brookes “