Historic Vessel Gallery Feature -- Willowglen
 

Launched in 1943 at Great Lakes Engineering Works in River Rouge, Mi. as the Mesabi. Renamed Lehigh when the vessel entered service for Bethlehem Transportation Co. that year.  Sold to Pierson Steamships, Ltd. in 1981 and renamed Joseph X. Robert. Sold to P & H Shipping in 1982 and renamed Willowglen. Sold to Goderich Elevators in 1994 for use as a storage  hull.
Loading at Sarnia's Cargill elevators, October 4, 1986.  Marc Dease
Willowglen at the elevator.	Deck view from the wheelhouse.	Rainy fall day.
Beautiful wooden wheel.	Interior of the wheelhouse.	Captain Jack Hartley with fellow boatnerd Duncan White.
Builders plate.	Ships bell, launched as the Mesabi, sold to Bethlehem Transportation and renamed Lehigh.	Loading at night.
Willowglen underway. Luke Collection	Downbound at the Soo Rob Burdick	At Goderich. Todd Davidson
Goderich summer 2001. Mike Nicholls	Summer 2002. Rob Farrow	Underway. Don Coles
Summer 2002. Don Coles	Lehigh downbound the Maumee River from the Cherry Street Bridge. She just finished loading grain at one of the Elevators upriver. Jim Hoffman	Lehigh with the bumboat "Deweys" alongside loading a grain cargo at the Midstates Elevator in Toledo. The grain cargo will be going out the Seaway and she will return back to the Lakes with a load of high grade ore loaded at a Seaway port. Jim Hoffman
February 2003, Mike Nicholls.	Stern view. Mike Nicholls	Mike Nicholls
	Goderich Harbor January, 2003. Jim Bauer