A 1925 product of the Great Lakes Engineering Works,River Rouge Mi was launched as JOHN A TOPPING for Columbia Transportation-Oglebay Norton Co hull #251 621'9"x62'x32'
Sold to Reiss Coal Co and renamed WILLIAM A RIESS in 1934.
Deepened 7'6" in 1963. The whole Reiss fleet was purchased by American Steamship CO IN 1969. Sold to Kinsman Transit in 1971,and back to Columbia in 1974 Layed up at Toledo
Aug 1981. Sold for overseas scrapping in 1994,and arived at Alang,India in Dec 1994.Photo taken in St Marys River 1970 by Harold Fricke from my collection