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Posted on May 10, 2021
Malcolm
Alexander McAdam
'Mac'
May 27, 1940 - May 8, 2021
GLMI board member for over 30 years
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The Great Lakes Maritime
Institute’s most recent project was the recovery
of the 6,000 pound bow anchor of the S.S.
GREATER DETROIT and its exhibition at the
Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority building. On
November 15, 2016, the anchor was successfully
raised and on National Maritime Day, May 22,
2017, it was dedicated in a display at the
Detroit/Wayne County Port Authority
Building.
Newspaper
article with video of the anchor being raised.
Newspaper
article showing the anchor dedication.
To
learn more about the history of the SS GREATER
DETROIT, Click Here
In July 1992 GLMI carried out
a similar project when the anchor of the S.S.
EDMUND FITZGERALD was recovered from the bottom
of the Detroit River. That anchor is currently
resting in the yard of the Dossin Great Lakes
Museum on Belle Isle.
By using the Detroit River webcam that is mounted on
the top of the William Clay Ford Pilothouse you
are able to see the anchor from the S.S. EDMUND
FITZGERALD on Belle Isle.
The GLMI’s last anchor
fundraiser also provided the funds to send a
recovery team to Baltimore, Maryland where the
S.S. SOUTH AMERICAN was being scrapped in
1992. The group recovered a number of
artifacts from the vessel just before it was
dismantled. Our group was fortunate to have
the opportunity to recover a number of port
holes and document the condition of the vessel
before it was destroyed in a fire while it was
being scrapped.
The GLMI also helped pay for the installation
of the S.S. WILLIAM CLAY FORD pilothouse, a
thirty by thirty foot steel and glass addition
to the Dossin Great Lakes Museum. This
artifact was taken off the vessel intact
before it was scrapped. When one visits the
Dossin Great Lakes Museum you will be walking
into an actual working pilothouse from a Great
Lakes freighter that was built at the Great
Lakes Engineering Works at River Rough/Ecorse,
Michigan.
The Detroit River webcam was
one of the projects that the GLMI was able to
help fund. It allows an individual to actually
control the camera that is mounted on the mast
of the S.S. WILLIAM CLAY FORD pilothouse.
Posted August 25, 2013:
Recovered artifacts from the
Str. REGINA are being prepared for auction at
the annual GLMI dinner, scheduled for October
27, 2013 at Blossom Heath in St. Clair
Shores. On August 20, volunteers from GLMI
and International Shipmasters Association met to
clean and prepare various artifacts. Click
Here for details and pictures of the
cleaning project.
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