The tug URANIA was towing the schooner S.V.R. WATSON into Sand Beach, MI, at about noon when the schooner struck the tug amidships, cutting a hole in the hull and sinking her in three fathoms of water. No lives were lost.
1901
M.M. DRAKE was towing the schooner barge MICHIGAN across Lake Superior when the latter began to sink. The steamer came alongside to take off the crew when a towering wave bashed the two vessels together, resulting in heavy damage. Both vessels went down, but all except one sailor were rescued by the passing ships NORTHERN WAVE and CRESCENT CITY.
1902
H.A. BARR (three-masted wooden schooner; 217 feet; 1,119 gross tons; built in 1893 at West Bay City, MI) was in tow of the saltie THEANO with a load of iron ore in a storm 30 miles off Port Stanley, ON, in Lake Erie. She broke her towline in giant waves and foundered. THEANO rescued her crew.
1915
WESTERN STAR ran aground on Robertson Rock in Georgian Bay while en route to Little Current, ON, with a cargo of coal. The ship was badly damaged, and early attempts to refloat the freighter failed. It was not released until September 18, 1917, and was subsequently rebuilt at Detroit, MI. The ship returned to service as b.) GLENISLA in 1918 and was scrapped at Hamilton, ON, as c.) PRESCOTT in 1962–1963.
1924
The PERE MARQUETTE 22 entered service, arriving Ludington, MI, on her maiden voyage.
1937
NEEBING foundered with the loss of five lives in western Lake Superior while towing the barge COTEAU in a heavy storm. The crane-equipped ship was approaching the Nipigon Strait with a load of gravel for Red Rock, ON, at the time. Nine sailors were rescued.
1947
MILVERTON, downbound with a cargo of coal, and TRANSLAKE, upbound with crude oil, collided near Iroquois, ON. The latter got caught in the current and veered to port, resulting in the collision. The former, one of the few oil-burning canal ships, had the fuel lines rupture, caught fire, drifted downstream, and grounded at the head of Rapide Plat. The ship burned for two days, and 11 sailors were killed. Despite the heavy damage, MILVERTON was refloated and repaired, and she later sailed as c.) CLARY FORAN and d.) FERNDALE (i) before being scrapped at Hamilton, ON, in 1963.
1952
BAYTON was loading at Thunder Bay, ON’s Pool 4A elevator at the Canadian Lakehead when there was an explosion at the elevator and chunks of concrete rained down on the deck of the Colonial Steamship Co. (Misener) steamer. One person was killed, and nine more were injured.
1958
EDMUND FITZGERALD’s first cargo of taconite pellets was loaded at Silver Bay, MN, for Toledo, OH.
1962
In early morning fog on the St. Clair River, the J.L. REISS was hit by three glancing blows from U.S. Steel’s SEWELL AVERY. The AVERY had lost control just below Robert’s Landing, crossed the channel from the Canadian side, and struck the REISS, which was proceeding slowly by radar on the U.S. side.
2008
DRAGOMIRESTI was a Romanian freighter that first visited the Seaway in 1992 to load food aid cargo in Thunder Bay, ON, for Sudan and Yemen. The ship was driven aground as j.) CHUN JIANG on this date in 2008 about 22 miles from Macao, China, in Typhoon Hagupit. The crew was removed by helicopter.
Contributors & Sources
Joe Barr, Dave Swayze, Max Hanley, James Neumiller, Jody Aho, Father Dowling Collection, Ahoy & Farewell II, and the Great Lakes Ships We Remember series from the Marine Historical Society of Detroit.
COMMENCEMENT (two-masted wooden schooner; 75 feet; 73 tons; built in 1853 at Holland, MI) was carrying wood in her hold and telegraph poles on deck from Pentwater, MI, for Milwaukee, WI, when she sprang a leak 20 miles off Little Sable Point on Lake Michigan. The incoming water quickly overtook her pump capacity. As the crew was getting aboard the lifeboat, she turned turtle. The crew clung to the upturned hull for 30 hours until the passing steamer ALLEGHENY finally rescued them. COMMENCEMENT later washed ashore a total wreck.
1905
HENRY C. FRICK departed Bay City, MI, on her maiden voyage and rammed and damaged the Michigan Central Railroad Bridge.
1922
AUBE, on her first trip back under this name, went aground off Carleton Island on the St. Lawrence River while carrying 65,000 bushels of grain. Tugs released the stranded vessel the following day.
1978
FRANQUELIN (ii) went aground in the Seaway below Beauharnois, QC. Once refloated, the ship went to Canadian Vickers in Montreal, QC, for repairs and was caught there in a labor dispute.
1980
DERWENTFIELD, a British-flagged freighter, first came through the Seaway in 1975. The ship grounded on this date in 1980 as c.) CAVO ARTEMIDI off Brazil while en route from Vitoria, Brazil, to Rotterdam, Netherlands, with a cargo of pig iron and broke in two as a total loss.
1985
In tandem tow, MENIHEK LAKE and LEON FALK JR. arrived at Vigo, Spain. The MENIHEK LAKE was scrapped at Vigo, and the FALK was towed to Gijn, Spain, for scrapping.
Contributors & Sources
Skip Gillham, Joe Barr, Dave Swayze, Ahoy & Farewell II, and the Great Lakes Ships We Remember series from the Marine Historical Society of Detroit.
At 03:00, the steam barge LADY FRANKLIN burned while moored near Clark’s dock, about three miles from Amherstburg, ON, in the Detroit River. One life was lost. This vessel had been built in 1861 as a passenger steamer and ran between Cleveland, OH, and Port Stanley, ON. In 1874 she was converted into a lumber freighter, running primarily between Saginaw, MI, and Cleveland, OH. The burned hull was rebuilt in 1882.
1892
JOHN BURT (three-masted wooden schooner; 138 feet; 348 gross tons; built in 1871 at Detroit, MI) was carrying grain in a strong northwestern gale. Her rudder broke, and she was blown past the mouth of the harbor at Oswego, NY, and driven hard aground. Two died when the vessel struck. The U.S. Life-Saving Service rescued the remaining five crewmembers. The vessel quickly broke up in the waves.
1914
MARY N. BOURKE (wooden schooner barge; 219 feet; 920 gross tons; built in 1889 at Baraga, MI) was docked at Peter’s Lumber Dock in St. Mary’s Bay, 15 miles north of St. Ignace, MI. The crew was awakened around 21:30 by smoke coming from her hold and escaped. The BOURKE burned to the waterline and the fire spread ashore, destroying the dock and a pile of lumber.
1930
The schooner OUR SON, launched in 1875, sank during a storm on Lake Michigan about 40 miles west-southwest of Big Sable Point. 73-year-old Captain Fred Nelson and the crew of OUR SON were rescued by the self-unloader WILLIAM NELSON.
1937
The Canadian Seaman’s Union signed a tentative wage contract. Sailors would continue a two-watch system (working 12 hours every 24 hours) and be paid the following monthly wages: wheelsmen and oilers — $72.50; watchmen and firemen — $67.50; second cooks — $52.50; deckhands and coal passers — $50.00; porters — $45.00; chief cooks on the upper lakes — $115.00; chief cooks on canal boats — $105.00.
1957
Taconite Harbor, MN, loaded its first cargo of 10,909 tons of taconite pellets into the holds of the Interlake steamer J.A. CAMPBELL.
1969
CCGS GRIFFON (Hull #664) was launched by Davie Shipbuilding Ltd. at Lauzon, QC, for the Canadian Coast Guard.
1973
H.M. GRIFFITH was christened at Collingwood, ON, for Canada Steamship Lines.
1974
CHI-CHEEMAUN cleared the shipyard in Collingwood, ON.
1979
MAHONI, an Indonesian-registered freighter, went aground on the west coast of Taiwan on this date in 1979 and was abandoned by the crew. The ship was refloated in June 1980 and sold to Taiwanese shipbreakers for scrapping at Kaohsiung, Taiwan. It had been a Seaway saltie as b.) CLARI beginning in 1968 and returned as c.) ARNIS in 1970.
1984
ROGER M. KYES returned to service after she had grounded off McLouth Steel and ended crosswise in the Detroit River’s Trenton Channel a month before. She was renamed b.) ADAM E. CORNELIUS in 1989.
1985
The BELLE RIVER was sideswiped by the Liberian FEDERAL RHINE of 1977 at Duluth, MN. Both vessels received minor damage.
Contributors & Sources
Skip Gillham, Joe Barr, Dave Swayze, Russ Plumb, Mike Nicholls, Ahoy & Farewell II, Father Dowling Collection, and the Great Lakes Ships We Remember series from the Marine Historical Society of Detroit.
On September 27–29, a big storm swept the lower lakes. On Lake Huron, the barges HUNTER and DETROIT were destroyed. The tug SANDUSKY rescued the 21 survivors from them. The schooner CORSAIR foundered off Sturgeon Point on Saginaw Bay at 16:00 on Sunday the 29th, and only two of the crew survived. The barge A. LINCOLN was ashore one mile below Au Sable, MI, with no loss of life. The barge TABLE ROCK went ashore off Tawas Point and went to pieces. All but one of her crew was lost. The schooner WHITE SQUALL was sunk 10 miles off Fish Point, and only one crewman was saved. The schooner SUMMIT went ashore at Fish Point about seven miles north of Tawas, MI, with two lives lost.
1877
HIPPOGRIFFE (wooden schooner; 295 tons; built in 1864 at Buffalo, NY) had just left Chicago, IL, for Buffalo loaded with oats on a fine day with clear weather. The crew saw EMMA A. COYNE (wooden schooner; 155 feet; 497 tons; built in 1867 at Detroit, MI) approaching from a long way off and loaded with lumber. The two vessels’ skippers were brothers. The two schooners collided about 20 miles off Kenosha, WI. The COYNE came alongside and picked up the HIPPOGRIFFE’s crew a few minutes before that vessel rolled over and dove for the bottom.
1884
WALDO A. AVERY (wooden propeller; 204 feet; 1,294 gross tons) was launched at West Bay City, MI. Her construction had been subcontracted by F.W. Wheeler & Co. to Thomas F. Murphy.
1903
The CITY OF GENOA arrived with the first cargo of iron ore for the new factory at Zug Island, reported the Detroit Free Press.
1909
ANN ARBOR NO. 4 returned to service after being repaired from her capsizing at Manistique, MI, the previous May.
1911
The waterlogged wooden steamer THREE BROTHERS was beached off South Manitou Island on Lake Michigan. The cargo of lumber was salvaged, but the 23-year-old vessel was left to rot.
1912
The wooden steamer GEORGE T. HOPE, loaded with 2,118 tons of iron ore, foundered in Lake Superior near Grand Island when it began leaking in heavy weather. All on board were saved.
1934
SASKADOC departed Erie, PA, for the short run to the Welland Canal with 7,500 tons of coal and the hatches left open. The vessel encountered a storm on the lake, developed a list, and arrived 11 hours late.
1943
NORMAN B. MACPHERSON, a small canaller in the Upper Lakes fleet, went aground on Hammond Shoal in the American Channel of the St. Lawrence River near Alexandria Bay, NY.
1947
The tanker IMPERIAL COLLINGWOOD (Hull #137) was launched at Collingwood, ON, by Collingwood Shipyards Ltd. for Imperial Oil Ltd. of Toronto, ON. Renamed b.) SEAWAY TRADER in 1979, she was sold off the lakes in 1984 and later renamed c.) PATRICIA II and d.) BALBOA TRADER in 1992.
1959
The West Neebish Channel, through which downbound traffic normally passes, was temporarily closed to permit dredging to the maximum Seaway depth of 27 feet. Two-way traffic was instituted in the Middle Neebish Channel until dredging was completed.
1969
OPHELIA was a Great Lakes caller before the Seaway opened. The West German freighter also made 16 trips inland from 1959 to 1964. It was under Greek registry when it was abandoned off Sibu, Sarawak, with a fire in the engine room on this date in 1969. The vessel was en route from Sibu to Kuching, China, and the hull drifted aground as a total loss.
1976
ROGER M. KYES proceeded to Chicago, IL, for dry docking, survey, and repairs. She struck the bottom of Buffalo Harbor on September 22, 1976, sustaining holes in two double-bottom tanks and damage to three others.
1986
GEORGE M. HUMPHREY, under tow, locked through the Panama Canal from September 27–30 on her way to the cutter’s torch at Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
1989
The H.M. GRIFFITH experienced a smoky conveyor belt fire at Port Colborne, ON. Repairs were completed there.
1991
OGDENSBURG was built as a barge to ferry rail cars across the St. Lawrence River between Prescott, ON, and Ogdensburg, NY. The vessel had joined McKeil as a regular deck barge in 1988 and broke loose in a storm on this date in 1991 while working off Blanc-Sablon, QC, carrying heavy construction equipment. Refloated, the hull was towed to Hamilton, ON, and became one of three former railway barges rebuilt as a floating drydock.
Contributors & Sources
Skip Gillham, Joe Barr, Dave Swayze, Max Hanley, Russ Plumb, Mike Nicholls, Father Dowling Collection, Ahoy & Farewell II, and the Great Lakes Ships We Remember series from the Marine Historical Society of Detroit.
W.G. BUCKNER (wooden schooner; 75 feet; 107 tons; built in 1837 at Irving, NY) was carrying lumber in a storm on Lake Michigan when she sprang a leak and capsized. The man to whom the cargo belonged was aboard with his wife and five children. One child was washed overboard, while the wife and three children died of exposure. The schooner ERWIN took off the survivors plus the bodies.
1891
THOMAS PARSONS (two-masted wooden schooner; 135 feet; 350 tons; built in 1868 at Charlotte, NY) was carrying coal out of Ashtabula, OH, when she foundered in a storm a few miles off Fairport Harbor, OH, in Lake Erie.
1921
The W.H. RITCHIE caught fire and sank at Port Arthur, ON, where it had become a bulk grain transport vessel. The remains were uncovered during dredging work in 1961.
1946
BRIG. GEN. M.G. ZALINSKI, built at Lorain, OH, in 1919 as a.) LAKE FROHNA and later operating inland in the package freight trade as b.) ACE, hit the rocks off Pitt Island. The vessel was en route from Seattle, WA, to Whittier, AK, with a cargo of army supplies and sank in 20 minutes. All on board were rescued by the tug SALLY N. and taken to the fishing village of Butedale, BC. The hull was located in June 2011 and is upside down.
1960
CHICAGO TRIBUNE and SHENANGO II were both damaged in a collision in the St. Clair River off Marysville, MI.
1973
FRANK R. DENTON and FEDERAL SCHELDE (i) collided in the St. Marys River with minor damage to both ships. The former was scrapped at Ashtabula, OH, in 1985–1986. The latter began Seaway service when new in 1968, returned as b.) C. MEHMET in 1977, and was delivered to the scrappers at Nantong, China, on March 16, 1999.
1980
BURNS HARBOR entered service, departing Sturgeon Bay, WI, bound for Superior, WI, to load taconite pellets.
1987
THOMAS WILSON left Toledo, OH, in tow of the tug TUSKER for overseas scrapping. The WILSON had been laid up since December 16, 1979.
1998
ANDROS TRANSPORT, a Fortune-class cargo ship, first came through the Seaway in 1978. Flooding occurred in the engine room in the Caribbean off Trinidad as d.) GRIGOROUSSA on this date in 1998 while traveling in ballast. The crew of 15 was removed, and the ship was towed into Port au Spain, Trinidad. It was declared a total loss, sold to Mexican shipbreakers, and arrived at Tuxpan, Mexico, under tow for dismantling on December 4, 1998.
Contributors & Sources
Skip Gillham, Joe Barr, Dave Swayze, Mike Nicholls, Ahoy & Farewell II, and the Great Lakes Ships We Remember series from the Marine Historical Society of Detroit.
ADRIATIC (3-masted wooden schooner-barge, 139 foot, 129 net tons, built in 1865, at Clayton, New York as a bark) was in tow of the tug MOORE along with three other barges in Lake Erie in a heavy gale. She became separated from the tow and foundered. The entire crew of 7 was lost. The wooden schooner DERRICK was used in salvage operations. On 29 September 1854, she had just positioned herself above the wreck of the steamer ERIE off Silver Creek, New York on Lake Erie when she went down in a gale. She had spent the summer trying to salvage valuables from the wreck of the steamer ATLANTIC.
1879
The tug URANIA was towing the schooner S V R WATSON into Sand Beach at about noon when the schooner struck the tug amidships, cutting a hole in the hull and sinking her in three fathoms of water. No lives were lost.
1892
The ANN ARBOR NO 1 was launched.
1900
The steamer SAKIE SHEPARD was re-launched at Anderson’s shipyard in Marine City. She had been thoroughly rebuilt there during the summer.
1901
M.M. DRAKE was towing the schooner barge MICHIGAN across Lake Superior when the latter began to sink. The steamer came alongside to take off the crew when a towering wave bashed the two vessels together resulting in heavy damage. Both vessels went down, but all except one sailor were rescued by the passing ships NORTHERN WAVE and CRESCENT CITY.
1902
H.A. BARR (3 mast wooden schooner, 217 foot, 1,119 gross tons, built in 1893, at W. Bay City, Michigan) was in tow of the saltie THEANO with a load of iron ore in a storm 30 miles off Port Stanley in Lake Erie. She broke her towline in giant waves and foundered. THEANO rescued her crew.
1906
The J. H. SHEADLE (Hull#22) of the Great Lakes Engineering Works, was launched for the Grand Island Steamship Co. (Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co., Cleveland, Ohio, mgr.) Renamed b.) F. A. BAILEY in 1924, c.) LA SALLE in 1930. Sold Canadian in 1965, renamed d.) MEAFORD, and e.) PIERSON INDEPENDENT in 1979. She was scrapped at Santander, Spain, in 1980.
1915
WESTERN STAR ran aground on Robertson Rock, Georgian Bay, while enroute to Little Current with a cargo of coal. The ship was badly damaged and early attempts to refloat the freighter failed. It was not released until September 18, 1917, and was rebuilt at Detroit. The ship returned to service as b) GLENISLA in 1918 and was scrapped at Hamilton as c) PRESCOTT in 1962-1963.
1929
The PERE MARQUETTE 22 arrived at Ludington, Michigan on her maiden voyage.
1930
For the first time in the history of Pittsburgh Steamship Company, the boats of the fleet loaded more than one million tons in a seven-day period. The 64 Pittsburgh boats loaded 1,002,092 tons of cargo between 9/23 and 9/29.
1937
NEEBING foundered with the loss of 5 lives in western Lake Superior while towing the barge COTEAU in a heavy storm. The crane-equipped ship was approaching the Nipigon Strait, with a load of gravel for Red Rock, ON at the time. Nine sailors were rescued.
1947
MILVERTON, downbound with a cargo of coal, and TRANSLAKE, upbound with crude oil, collided near Iroquois, ON. The latter got caught in the current and veered to port resulting in the collision. The former, one of the few oil-burning canal ships, had the fuel lines rupture, caught fire, drifted downstream and grounded at the head of Rapide Plat. The ship burned for two days and 11 sailors were killed. Despite the heavy damage, MILVERTON was refloated, repaired and later sailed as c) CLARY FORAN and d) FERNDALE (i) before being scrapped at Hamilton in 1963.
1952
BAYTON was loading at Pool 4A Elevator at the Canadian Lakehead when there was an explosion at the elevator and chunks of concrete rained down on the deck of the Colonial Steamship Co. (Misener) steamer. One person was killed and nine more were injured.
The CHARLES L. HUTCHINSON entered service. This vessel was renamed b.) ERNEST R. BREECH when it was sold to the Ford Motor Company in 1962, and it was renamed c.) KINSMAN INDEPENDENT, when it was sold to Kinsman Lines in 1988. Sold Canadian in 2005, and renamed d.) VOYAGEUR INDEPENDENT. She sails today as the motorship e.) OJIBWAY.
1962
In early morning fog on the St. Clair River on September 29, 1962, the J.L. REISS was hit three glancing blows by U.S. Steel’s SEWELL AVERY. The AVERY had lost control just below Robert’s Landing and crossed the channel from the Canadian side and struck the REISS, which was proceeding slowly by radar on the U.S. side.
1974
J.A.Z. DESGAGNES and HAVRE ST. PIERRE collided while trying to pass on the St. Lawrence. The former often visited the Great Lakes but was scrapped in Croatia as e) A. LEGRAND in 2003-2004. The latter, originally a Dutch coastal vessel, worked on the St. Lawrence and around Eastern Canada but was deleted from Lloyds Register in 1999.
1982
ATLANTIC SUPERIOR went aground off Wellesley Island in the American Narrows of the St. Lawrence. This new member of the Canada Steamship Lines fleet was released October 1 and repaired at Thunder Bay. It was back on the Great Lakes in 2012.
1986
The Polish tug KORAL left Lauzon, Quebec with the JOHN E. F. MISENER and GOLDEN HIND enroute to Cartagena / Mamonal, Columbia, for scrapping.
1987
Henry Ford II, 70, of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, passed away. Mr. Ford’s namesake was the Ford Motor Company self-unloader.
1993
EASTERN FRIENDSHIP first came to the Great Lakes in 1986. It had been stranded off the coast of Bangladesh as d) TONY BEST since April 10, 1993. While refloated on June 21, the anchors dragged on July 24 and the ship went aground again. The hull later cracked and the ship sank on this date in 1993.
2008
DRAGOMIRESTI was a Romanian freighter that first visited the Seaway in 1992 to load a food aid cargo in Thunder Bay for Sudan & Yemen. The ship was driven aground as j) CHUN JIANG, about 22 miles from Macao in Typhoon Hagupit. The crew were removed by helicopter.
Contributors & Sources
Skip Gillham, Joe Barr, Dave Swayze, Max Hanley, Russ Plumb, Father Dowling Collection, Ahoy & Farewell II and the Great Lakes Ships We Remember series.
AMERICAN CHAMPION (wooden scow schooner; 156 tons; built in 1866 at Trenton, MI) dropped anchor to ride out a gale near Leamington, ON, on Lake Erie. The chains gave way, and she struck a bar and sank to the gunwales. The crew of eight spent the night in the rigging, and the next day a local woman and her two sons heroically rescued each one.
1888
AUSTRALIA (wooden schooner; 109 feet; 159 gross tons; built in 1862 at Vermilion, OH) was carrying cedar posts from Beaver Island to Chicago, IL, when she encountered a gale. She was laid on beam ends and sprung a leak. She headed for shelter in Holland, MI, but struck a bar and foundered in the mouth of the harbor. The wreck blocked the harbor until it was removed on October 5. Her crew was rescued by the U.S. Life-Saving Service.
1896
SUMATRA (wooden schooner barge; 204 feet; 845 gross tons; built in 1874 at Black River, OH) was loaded with railroad rails in tow of the steamer B.W. ARNOLD in a storm on Lake Huron. The SUMATRA was blown down and foundered off the Government Pier at Milwaukee, WI. Three of the crew were lost. The four survivors were rescued by the ARNOLD and the U.S. Life-Saving Service. The SUMATRA was owned by the Mills Transportation Co.
1906
The first FAYETTE BROWN ran into the pier entering Lorain, OH, became disabled, and stranded on the beach. The ship was refloated with considerable damage. It last operated as c.) GLENMOUNT in 1923 and was scrapped around 1928.
1913
CITY OF LONDON sank off Point Pelee in Lake Erie after a collision with the JOE S. MORROW. The hull was later dynamited as an obstacle to navigation.
1943
ROBERT C. STANLEY departed light on her maiden voyage from River Rouge, MI, bound for Two Harbors, MN, to load iron ore.
1964
DUNDRUM BAY was a pre-Seaway visitor to the Great Lakes on charter to the Hall Corporation. The vessel was driven aground on this date as f.) ESITO near Necochea, Argentina, while traveling in ballast. The hull broke in two and was a total loss.
1965
PROTOSTATIS, a Greek Liberty ship, went aground on Traverse Shoal in Lake Ontario while en route from Detroit, MI, to Genoa, Italy, with a cargo of scrap. The vessel was lightered and refloated with the aid of tugs. It went to Kingston, ON, to anchor and reload in the shelter of Wolfe Island.
1976
The 660-foot forward section of the BELLE RIVER (Hull #716) was side launched at Sturgeon Bay, WI, by the Bay Shipbuilding Co. The vessel was renamed b.) WALTER J. MCCARTHY JR. in 1977.
1980
GOVERNOR MILLER was towed down the Welland Canal in tow of TUG MALCOLM, STORMONT, and ARGUE MARTIN on her way to Quebec City, QC.
1986
CCGS CARIBOU ISLE struck a rock in Lake Huron’s North Channel and began taking on water. CCGS SAMUEL RISLEY arrived and helped patch the ship. The pair then departed for Parry Sound, ON.
Contributors & Sources
Skip Gillham, Joe Barr, Dave Swayze, Jody Aho, Ahoy & Farewell II, Father Dowling Collection, and the Great Lakes Ships We Remember series from the Marine Historical Society of Detroit.
