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Ecorse, Michigan, circa 1906. "Great Lakes Engineering Works." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Ishadoff is right,the arch frames are cut down but not entirely removed. They're "capped" with iron work. The main supporting truss work still exists down below inside and against the hull sides and rooted to the keel fore and aft. The Hill looks like it could use some propeller repair also. The Conestoga, lying behind the Hill, was also an arch frame vessel.
That is a good size hull being built on the other ways. May be one of the Great Lakes freights GLEW built in 1906.
This reminds me that cold weather and Winter are not far ahead. Great picture
on the S. J. Christian was collected in New York it seems.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10716FC3A5D1A7493C0AB178...
Buffalo Morning Express
FREIGHTER HILL SOLD AGAIN
Detroit, Sept. 11, 1906 -- The wooden package freighter Charles B. Hill, formerly the Anchor liner Delaware, has been sold by the Great Lakes Engineering Works to parties whose names are not given. The boat is now being fitted out at the Ecorse yard for use in the package freight trade between Buffalo and Lake Superior. The new owners already operate several boats in general.
"Wood package freighter arches cutdown, fitted out by GLEW and inspected."
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