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5. Mar i n e News - c o n t 'd . It is our u n d e r s t a n d i n g that two of Canada S t e a m s h i p Lines' la ke -built but o c e a n - o p e r a t e d s e l f - u n l o a d e r s have now been r e - r e g i s t e r e d in the Far East and renamed. One is A T L A N T I C H U R O N (II), (a) PRAI RI E H A R V E S T (89), w h i c h as r e c e n t l y as early S e ptember had been f l a g g e d - o u t of Ca n a d a and r e g i s t e r e d in the Bahamas. We now learn that she has bee n r e - r e g i s t e r e d aga in and has been renamed (c) A T L A N T I C H O N G KONG, w hile the 1982 - b u i l t A T L A N T I C S U P E R I O R has become (b) A T L A N T I C JOHORE. We have no idea what trade these vess e l s will now engage in but we mus t ass um e that they will voyage farth er afield than in the past. An i n t e r e s t i n g recent scrap sale, as per an Au g u s t 3rd, 1990, report, was the N a u r u N a t i o n a l S h i p p i n g Line 's ENN A G., w h i c h was sold as is, lying at the M a r s h a l l Islands, to Thai breakers. The ve s s e l had bee n laid up since 1983 and was to be d e l i v e r e d to the b r e a k e r s und er tow. The ship was the fo rmer PRINSES MARGR IE T, one-t i m e f l a gship of the Oran je Lin e' s c o m b i n a t i o n p as s e n g e r and fre ight serv ic e b e t w e e n the Great Lakes and Europe. Thro u g h o u t the 1990 season, the pas s e n g e r steamer A Q U A R A M A has c o n t i n u e d to lie idle at her w h a r f on the Wi ndsor waterf r o n t . The p o s s i b i l i t y of her ever being made into a c o n v e n t i o n f a c ility at Port Stanley, as planned, has become ever more remot e as time passed. No w we hear that eng i n e e r s have been w o r k i n g a board the ves s e l recently, a t t e m p t i n g to put her m a c h i n e r y into w o r k i n g order. It seems that A Q U A R A M A eit he r has bee n or soon wil l be acquired by o v e rseas operators for European (Mediterranean?) cruis e service. She s u p p o s e d l y wil l be towed to M iami for r e f i t t i n g and then towed overseas. Even th ough she wil l make these trips u nder tow, the as -yetu n i d e n t i f i e d n e w owners want to have her m a c h i n e r y in ful ly o p e r a t i o n a l c o n d i t i o n for the long tows. Stay tuned as we see what ma y bec om e of these a m biti ous plans for the old and lo ng-idle ship. Back at the b e g i n n i n g of the year, it was a n n o u n c e d that the Ca rgill Grain C o m p a n y was c l o s i n g down o p e r a t i o n s at its big e l e vator at Port McNi co ll , Ontario, and that the st ructure, w hich had bee n built bac k in 19 11-1912, w o u l d be d e m o l i s h e d dur in g the spring. Never t h e l e s s , the el evator was not taken down and still stands today. In fact, the news for the town gets even better than that, beca us e we u n d e r s t a n d that there is a good p o s s i b i l i t y that the e l e vat or will soon be a c q u i r e d by new owners who inte nd to opera te it once again. The elev at or o r i g i n a l l y was built for the C a n a d i a n Paci fi c Railway, w h i c h until re cent years o p e r a t e d it as a transfer facility b etw e e n lake steame rs and the railway. It is our u n d e r s t a n d i n g that the new owners w ould use the e l e vator in the same manner. Will wonders neve r cease? M a n y o b servers had i m a gined that the big barge w h i c h had been built at Onto na go n, Michi ga n, by the n o w - d e f u n c t and moneyhole Upper Pen i n s u l a S h i p b u i l d i n g Company, w ould never make her way to the water. A big tug, and this bar ge w hich she was to tow, were built by the st a t e - f u n d e d s h i pyard wit h the intent that they op erate in c a r ferry service across Lake M i c h i g a n as r e p l a c e m e n t s for the former Ann A rbor R a i l r o a d c a r ferries, but before they cou ld be completed, the ferry route was a b a n d o n e d and the s h i p y a r d was awa sh in a sea of f i n ancial and legal di ff ic ulties. The " O ntonagon Tug" (as e v e r y b o d y cal le d it) fin al ly was hau le d awa y from the shipyard late in 1988 and was taken to the Soo, from where in the summer of 1989 she was towed to the Gulf of Mexico for op e r a t i o n by her purchaser, the Marine S p e c i a l t y Company, of Texas. The same firm a c q u i r e d the u n l a u n c h e d barge as well, but desp it e m any plans to get her from her b u i l d i n g ways to the water, little actua l prog re ss seem ed to be made. We now learn that she r e c e n t l y was hau le d o v e r l a n d from the ways to the wa ter and was l a u nched into O n t o n a g o n ha rbour on Oct ob er 25, 1990. It seems pr obab le that the un-named ba rge soon will be taken away fro m Lake Superior, on her way to Texas to be hauled aro un d the Gul f of Mex ic o by the tug w hich o r i g i n a l l y was d e s i g n e d to be her par tn er on the Lake M i c h i g a n c a r ferry service.