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13. Ship of the Mon th - cont'd. In the first i n st alment of our feature, we stated that G O L D E N SABLE lay idle at Louis evi lle , Quebec, for some years, and p r o b a b l y was broken up in the m id -19 70s , a l t h o u g h her C a n a d i a n r e g istry was not closed until Oc tober of 1981. Me mbe r Rene Beauchamp, however, recalls seeing G O L D E N SABLE at L o u i s e ville as late as F e b r u a r y of 1978, and he feels that she was not a c t u a l l y broke n up until 1980. We have one other c o r r e c t i o n to make from the D e c ember feature, and that co nce rns our m e n t i o n of a n e a r - s i s t e r of the Imperial tankers, Furness Sh i p b u i l d i n g ' s Hull 178, w hich was C Y C L O - W A R R I O R (47), (b) TEXACO W A R R I O R (I)(69), (c) LAKE TRA N S P O R T (II). We com m e n t e d that she lasted on the lakes a bit longer than C A R DINAL (the former IM PERIAL WINDSOR), but was sold to fo re ig n op era tor s who took her off to salt water in 1974. The source of this in f o r m a t i o n o b v i o u s l y was an erro neous report, for Rene B e au ch am p has co n f i r m e d to us (and we have v e r i f i e d it) that LAKE T R A N S P O R T was sold by the Hall fleet in 1974 to U nion Pipe & M a c h i n e r y Ltd., of Lachine, Quebec. This firm broke her up at Sorel, Quebec, during 1978. Thus ends our look into the d a y - t o - d a y comings and goings of three of the Great Lakes' busiest tankers. Most of us, however, took IM PERIAL WINDSOR, I M P ER IA L SIMCOE and IMPERIAL C O R N W A L L for gran t e d during their man y years of stalwar t service. In hindsight, there is no doubt that we should have paid more a t te nt io n to these w o r k h o r s e s when they were still with us. * * * Ed. N o t e : We a p ologize for the u n u s u a l l y d i s o r g a n i z e d and rambling nature of this second part of our tanker feature, but we felt that our readers w ou ld a ppre c i a t e the rather special nature of these a d ditional items and we could find no better way of or dering them than the way they appear here. We would have liked to present this foll ow -up a little closer in time to the original December feature, but we simply did not have the space a v a ilable until now, and we did not favour s p litting the ma terial up into little bits and pieces. For their a s si st ance in pro v i d i n g a d ditional ma terial c o n c e r n i n g WINDSOLITE, SI MC OL IT E and ACADIALITE, we extend sincere thanks to Ron Beaupre, "Mac" Ma c k a y and Rene Beauchamp. We also ac k n o w l e d g e g r a t e f u l l y (albeit, u n f o r tunately, po st hu mously) the work of our old friend, Gord McKean, who made "Imperial Oil Fleet News" such an i n t e r e s t i n g pu b l i c a t i o n during his 25 years (1951 th rou gh 1976) as its Editor. * * * * * LA Y - U P L I S TINGS - 1991-1992 One of the m ajor lay-up ports for lake ships t r a d i t i o n a l l y has been Toledo, Ohio. It was, therefore, with considerable distress that Ye Ed. found h i m self unable to include Toledo in the lay-up listings in our F e b ruary and M a r c h issues. Our sincere thanks, however, now go to Jim Jackson and to Cy Hudson, who answered our p l aintive wail for a report for Toledo harbour. T o l e d o : J. BURTON AYERS, BESSIE B. (tug), WILLIS B. BOYER (museum), BUCKEYE ( C o l u m b i a ) , C O U R T N E Y BURTON, C H A M P I O N (tug), C O L UMBIA STAR, COLUMBUS (dredge), A DA M E. CORNELIUS, FAUST II (barge), JOSEPH H. FRANTZ, GEMINI, GENERAL (tug), JOE VAN (tug), SAM LAUD, LIN N H U R S T (tug), SAMUEL MATHER, MI G H T Y WAVE (tug), MONTANA (tug), M U S K E G O N (tug), NEW H A M P S H I R E (tug), NICOLET, ROBERT C. N O R TON, CRIS P I N OGLEBAY, OREGON (tug), W I L L I A M A. REISS, W. C. R I C H A R D S O N (re mains), S A N DPIPER (excursion), SATURN, H E N R Y STEINBRENNER, PAUL THAYER, H. LEE WHITE, FRED R. WHITE JR., CHARLES E. WILSON, WOLVERINE. It is now April, Summer begin! and thus endeth the lay-ups for another winter. Let the * * * * * Seaway O p e n i n g : The St. Lawrence canals opened on first commercial mo vement being the upbo u n d passage Monday, March 30th, of SENNEVILLE. the