Superior, Wisconsin

Was like drinking soap we were only 16 at the time 1963 it was free

I would like to see this great historical ship become a great floating ship-museum in stead of winding up being scrapped because we do not as of yet have a self-unloading great lakes freighter on display as a museum ship like the s.s. valley camp which is located in soo ste marie and the s.s. valley camp is formerly the louis w.hill when she was sold to republic steel co she was renamed the s.s. valley camp and sailed for and under the republic steel co logo until she was retired in 1966 not long after that is when the s.s.valley camp became a floating ship museum in soo ste,marie Michigan and that is what I would like to see happen to the s.s. American victory formerly the s.s. Middletown, please turn this fine former ocean-going world war 2 tanker--converted into a great lakes dry bulk self-unloading freighter into a ship-museum instead of selling her for scrap and then scrapping her making beer cans and razorblades and car fenders out of her this historical ship deserves a better fate then scrapping this ship would make a very fine floating ship-museum on our great-lakes please save her from the fate that so many other freighters had to under-go and that fate was scrapping!.

The MV Patterson has certainly lost that title as we just loaded the Algoma Harvester last week at Riverland in Duluth with just over 30,000 metric tons of spring wheat.

I'm proud to say my uncle Edison Burner was the Constuction Super for the conveyor job around 1970. AS kids we used to see the Edmund Fitz there, floating. At that time, the newer facility was not built and the old GN docks were being used.