The Navy's first fuel ships designed and built as oilers, rather than colliers, the Kanawha class comprised two ships commissioned just before World War I, which displaced 5,950/14,800 tons. Until 1920 they were designated Fuel Ship No. 13 etc. Maumee was the first large US Navy vessel with diesel engines.
This section features a topographical map of Michigan as well as a map legend that specifies elevation ranges and indicates their corresponding map colors. Michigan's highest elevation is Mount Arvon, which rises to 1,979 feet above sea level. Michigan's lowest elevation is 572 feet above sea level, at Lake Erie. Michigan land features include the gentle, rolling hills of the Lower Peninsula and the more hilly and rugged western part of the Upper Peninsula.
The Ledges. Unique ledges rising up to 60 feet on the banks of the Grand River appear for about a mile in Grand Ledge. This ancient sedimentary rock is the largest outcropping of rocks in Central Michigan, and the seventh largest in the state. Some 300 million years ago Grand Ledge was a salt water sea.