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Ma r i n e News - cont'd. 14. s e l f - u n l o a d e r will be given a special t e mporary raised h a t c h coaming, and the letters 'ASC - GATX' w ill be painted in white on her sides. The l e t t e r ing will be r e m o v e d after the special trip. At the auction held on J a n u a r y 17th, the two former BobLo Island ferry steamers COLUMBIA and STE. CLAIRE were sold to the Steamer Columbia Foundation. If the sale is approved, the F o u n d a t i o n w o u l d restore the C O L U M BIA for use as a floating nautical museum, and w ould sell STE. C LAIRE to anyone inte r e s t e d in r e s t o r i n g and o p e r a t i n g her. The "Detroit Free Press" r e p o r t e d details of the sale. The Detr oit Economic Gr o w t h Corp. held a m o r t gage on the boats in c o n s e q u e n c e of loans to their former owner, L arry S i e gel, operator of Baja Beach Clubs and the former resta u r a n t boat LANSDOWNE. The m o r t g a g e was in default and W i l l i a m Worden, a d i r e c t o r of the city's H i s t o r i c D e s i g n a t i o n A d v i s o r y Board, a c q u i r e d the $ 3 4 2 , 027 m o r t g a g e for the Steamer C o l umbia Foundation, of w h i c h he is president, the price of the transfer being $1. Foreclosure proceedings were instituted and the delin q u e n t m o r t g a g e was put up to bid on the boats. The only other bidder at the auction was seeking to overturn the sale, a c c o r d i n g to a F e b ruary 5th "Free Press" report. The past winter was e s p e c i a l l y difficult in some areas of the Great Lakes. R e s i d e n t s of Beaver Island in Lake M i c h i g a n were cut off from supplies b eca u s e of the conditions, and by early M a r c h were in d e s p e r a t e need of fuel oil, as the tanker b a r g e / t u g c o m b i n a t i o n M I C H I G A N and GREAT L AKES was un a b l e to enter St. James Ha r b o r at the island due to h e a v y ice. An e m e r g e n c y d e l i v e r y of 1 0 , 000 gallons of fuel oil was made on M a r c h 6th by the U . S. Coast Guard buo y tender ACACIA, which carried the fuel in her own tanks and transf e r r e d it to trucks on arrival at the island. The Canada Ste a m s h i p Lines' 715-foot, 33792 Gross Ton bulk carrier FERBEC, (a) FUGAKU M A R U (76), w h i c h n o r m a l l y operates in the St. Lawrence River ore trade, u n d e r w e n t a refit costing $2 m i l l i o n while spending the past wi n t e r at Montreal. The w o r k was done by M o n treal Tankers, in p a r t n e r s h i p with V e r reault Shipyard. The St. L a w rence canals op e n e d for the season on M arch 29th, and the first u p b o u n d passage was made by the salty F E D E R A L FUJI, w h i c h had arrived on the lower a p p roach wal l at St. Lambert Lock on M arch 27. The Coast Guard i cebr e a k e r PIERRE R A D I S S O N had entered the canals back on M a r c h 19th in o r der to tackle the ice in the system. E ls e w h e r e in this issue, we reported that the former S o c a n a v tanker J. C. P H I LLIPS is no w o p e rating as (c) T R A DEWIND SPIRIT under the P a n a m a n i a n flag. Her sistership, L. ROCHETTE, must have b een bought by the same ne w owners, as a late repo rt indicates that she is now running as (c) T R A D E W I N D ISLAND. Also, the former E N E R C H E M D O L P H I N is now named simply DOLPHIN, ope r a t i n g u nder Barbados registry, a c c o r d i n g to a recent Lloyd's report. * * * * * LAY-UP L I S T I N G S The fo l l o w i n g Larry Tonnos. St. additional listings come via Ray Kramer, Terry Sechen and J o s e p h - d e - l a - R i v e : J. A . Z. DESGAGNES, JACQUES DESGAGNES, MATHILDA DESGAGNES. TRANSPORT. B u f f a l o : Add M A R I N E STAR. Port D o v e r : H U S K Y 120 T o l e d o : Add NICOLET. MISEFORD N a n t i c o k e : CANADIAN S. M . T . B. #7 (scrapping), (tug), (barge). (barge), MR. Port M a i t l a n d : B E E C H G L E N (scrap), MISS L I B B Y (barge), MR. CHRIS N EIL (drill rig), T I M E S A V E R II (barge), TELESIS (drill rig). * * * * * A d d r e s s Rene Beauchamp, 9041 Bellerive, Montreal, Quebec H1L 3S5, for Seaway Ships 1 9 9 5 , 13th edition. $ 1 3 . 65 Can., $ 1 1 . 35 U . S., inc l u d i n g postage.