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A D D I T I O N A L M A R I N E NEWS In the J a n u a r y issue, we m e n t i o n e d that al though the ship BR E M E N had ca nc elled her pl anned visit to the N A N T U C K E T CLIP P E R w ould mak e an ex tended lake tour, July 23rd. We now learn that another p a ssenger ship trips in 1995, this being M A Y A N PRINCE, w h i c h came up can c e l l e d the latter part of her schedule. MAYAN sch e d u l e d to call at To ronto twice - on Aug us t 5th and 16. H a p a g - L l o y d pa ss enger Gr eat Lakes in 1995, cal li ng at Toro nt o on wil l be runn i n g lake early last su mmer but PR INCE is pre s e n t l y aga in on Aug us t 20th. Each winter, there is conc e r n about ice jams caus in g fl ooding alo ng the Thames River in Sout h w e s t e r n Ontario, and the Lower Th ames Va l l e y C o n s e r v a tion A u t h o r i t y makes plans for a tugboat to be ava i l a b l e to b r e a k ice if necessary. Late in the autumn of 1994, the LTV CA ma de a deal w i t h Gordon's W eld i n g Company, of Sarnia, for its tug M E N A S H A to be available if req ui re d for icebreaking. This was c o n s i d e r e d to be a better deal than the L T V C A had last year, w h e n it c h artered the tug PRINC E S S NO. 1, only to have that boat u n a v a i l a b l e due to a si nking cause d by an i l l - a d v i s e d l a t e - season trip through Lake Erie ice. But at the last moment, M E N A S H A was sent east on a fiv e - y e a r charte r for se rvice in Quebec, and so in J a n u a r y the L T V C A was back to seeing w h e t h e r PRI NC ES S NO. 1 was s e aworthy and available. To make matt ers worse, Tilb u r y N orth T o w nship ad vised the L T V C A that if a tug goes into the river for i c e b r e a k i n g and there is still f l o o d i n g in the area of the river mouth, legal ac t i o n will be taken aga in st the LTVCA for c o m p e n s a t o r y damages! It has been r e p o r t e d that the U . S. Coast Gua rd wil l this sprin g approve river barge traffic along the sh oreline of Lake M i c h i g a n from Ch icago to St. Joseph, Michigan . For the past two years, r iver-type barge op er ations have been p e r m i t t e d on the lake, but only betw e e n Chi ca go and Milwa uk ee . The e x t e n s i o n of river barge tr affic has bee n r e c o m m e n d e d by the A m e r i c a n Bur ea u of S h i p p i n g on the con d i t i o n that the barges be u n m a n n e d and pu s h e d by tugs w ith 1 , 000 h . p. or more, that they travel no more than five mil es from shore, and that they carry on ly n o n - h a z a r d o u s mat er ia ls . M i c h i g a n shippers are h o p i n g that river barge traffic e v e n t u a l l y will be per m i t t e d all the way up the east side of Lake M i c h i g a n as far as Muskegon. The sight of the st ripped and sunken hull of the fo rmer Cry st al Bea ch p a s senger steamer C A N A D I A N A lyi ng in Ra mey's Bend at H u m b e r s t o n e (Port C o l borne) in recent years has bee n eno ug h to convince most ob servers that plans to rest o r e the v e n erable vessel w ould never proceed. However, on Dece mb er 13, 1994, the U . S. federal go ve rnment included, in a $4 m i l l i o n fede ra l a l location to the State of N e w Yor k for t r a n s p o r t a t i o n projects, a grant of $ 4 0 0 , 000 to the S . S. Can a d i a n a P r e s e r v a t i o n Society to cover rep ai rs to the boat's hull and ma chinery. The So ciety r e p o r t e d l y hopes to have the work done in the summer of 1995 so that C A N A D I A N A may be taken back to Buffalo. The full cost of r e s toring C A N A D I A N A to op er ating c o n d i t i o n is e s t i m a t e d to be U . S. $ 4 . 2 million! The gro up has bee n paying $600 per m o n t h for "dockage" for the sunken hul k in Ra mey's Bend. On Page 3 of this issue, we r e p orted the last dow n b o u n d pa ssages of the 1994 n a v i g a t i o n season on the St. Lawre nc e Seaway. We did not, however, ment i o n the last u p b o u n d passage, and as some of our readers are sure to ask, we can conf i r m that it was QUE B E C O I S on D e c ember 27th, bou nd for H a m i l t o n w i t h a cargo of iron ore. QU EBECOIS is w i n t e r i n g at Hamilton, but in an unus u a l lo cation. She and her s istership MONTRE AL AI S, along w ith C A N A D I A N VENTURE, are spending the w i n t e r at the Dofa sc o steel plant dock. This is an ex pe riment to see if the ships will prov i d e eno ug h of a wind b reak to keep dust from D o f asco's coal piles from b l o w i n g onto house s across the bay! Ships n o r mally do not spend the wint er m o o r e d at the Do fasco wharf.