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3 Marine News - cont'd. The N. M. Pat er so n & Sons Ltd. lake bulk carrier CA NADOC (II) ( C . 313938) was built in 1961 as Hu ll 627 of Davie S h i p b u i l d i n g Ltd., Lauzon, Quebec, and was 5 9 0 . 2 x 6 2 . 0 x 3 3 . 9, 10061 Gross and 8196 Net. She n ever was known as a p a r t i c u l a r l y h a n d s o m e vessel, but she was d i s t i n c t i v e in that she carr i e d a t r iple-deck bridge stru cture of a style unus u a l to ships of her vintage. CANADOC, however, was one of those ships built to less than full Seaway dimen sio ns, and thus was destined to have a relatively short career (PATE RSO N [I], QU ED OC [II] and SE NATOR OF C A N A D A ha v i n g ea rlier been sold out of the fleet for scrapping). CANADOC laid up at Prescott over the wi n t e r of 1989-1990, and e arly in the spring of 1990, she sailed for Montreal, where she has be en lying in id leness ever since. She had white s c r a p - t o w m a r ki ng s pa in te d on her hull fore and aft, and it was said that she had been sold to the C o r o s t e l Trad i n g (Ziff) i n terests of Montreal, and then via the G ibs on s h ip br ok er interests of New York to b r e akers in India. But CANA D O C remai n e d at M o n t r e a l into the 1991 season, and it was felt by some obs e r v e r s that she had become the v i c t i m of p l u m m e t i n g scrap metal prices w h i c h have r e n d e r e d ov ers eas scrap sales and long tows u n e c o n o m i c a l for the present. Indeed, her image a p p e a r e d on a sign along C h e r r y Street near the To ronto Ship Channel, a d v e r t i s i n g r e d e v e l o p m e n t of a piece of land there, a project w hic h once was said to be going to in c o r p o r a t e a "museum ship". On August 3rd, 1991, however, one of our mem b e r s spot t e d CANADOC d o w n b o u n d in the St. L a w re nc e River at Quebec City, in tow of the N e t h e r l a n d s A n t illes tug D ALM AR SPIRIT, and a s s isted by the C a n a d i a n tug OMNI ST. LAUR E N T w h i c h is owned by R e m o r q u a g e s Sorel Inc. As yet, we have no d e f i n i t e c o n f i r m a t i o n of C A N A D O C 's int en de d destination. At long last, it wo uld appear that efforts to p r e serve the ve n e r a b l e pa s s e n g e r steamer M I L W A U K E E CLIPPER, (a) J U N I A T A (II)(41), have succeeded. Pu r c h a s e d at a u c t i o n last year by the City of Hammond, Indiana, after her p rev iou s Ch ica go owners had gone into re ceivership, the 1905 -built ship was m ove d to the site of a large new marina f a c i l i t y being built on the H a m m o n d w ater fro nt. Wo rk p r o g r e s s e d through the wi n t e r and spring to rea dy the CL IP P E R for her role as c e n t r e p i e c e in the marina complex, and at last report (early July), some 60% of the ma r i n a slips a l r e a d y had been rented and the CL IP PE R h e r s e l f was due to be opened for public use in August. Photos of the ship p r o v i d e d by one of our me mbers show that M I L W A U K E E CLIPPER is now pain t e d all white, with a wide blue stripe under a n a r r o w e r red band ru nni ng along the forec a s t l e rail and down the ship's sides at spar deck level. Her stack (The fo rward "dummy" funnel, not the real one aft) is white and carries a logo w h i c h inc o r p o r a t e s a red sun and a blue sailboat. A l t h o u g h it w o u l d be pleasant to see M I L W A U K E E CLIP P E R pre s e r v e d in an active rather than d o c k b o u n d role, we wish her all the best in her new life. The "Detroit Free Press" of August 6th, 1991, r e p orted that the res t a u r a n t and lounge f a ci li ti es aboard the former s i dewheel c a r f e r r y steamer L A N S D O WNE would soon re ope n under the m a n a g e m e n t of the Baja Beach N i g h t c l u b Company. The 188 4- bu il t former Grand Tru nk and C . N . R. carferry, which l a t terly opera t e d across the Detroit River as a barge, opened in 1983 as a r e s taurant owned by S p e c i a l t y Restaurants. In 1988, S p e c i a l t y sold L A N S D O W N E to D & D E n te r p r i s e A s s o c i a t e s Inc., but this p a r t n e r s h i p of a former e n t e r t a i n e r and a Detroit de nti st went into C h a p t e r 11 b a n k r u p t c y p r o c e e d i n g s in 1990 and sold LA N S D O W N E back to S p e c i a l t y Restaurants. Baja Beach, w hich op erates r e s t a u r a n t / n i g h t c l u b s in Miami, Ch icago and Arlington, Texas, has taken a ten-year, $3 m i l l i o n lease on L A N S D O W N E and has spent half a m i l l i o n on renovati ons . LANSDOWNE, still mo o r e d on the Detroit w a t e r f r o n t behind Joe Louis Arena, will feature a sports bar, a piano bar, a dance club, ou tdoor s u n / c o n c e r t / b a r b e c u e deck areas, and also a "traditional restaurant". The De tro it w a t e r f r o n t r e c e i v e d a new e x c u r s i o n vessel in 1991. She is the former Beaver Is lan d (Lake Michiga n) ferry EMER A L D ISLE, 6 3 . 0 x 2 5 . 0 x 7 . 3, 82 Gross, wh ic h was built as Hull 378 of the Chri s t y Corp. at S t u rgeon Bay in 1955. Pu r c h a s e d by Diam o n d Jack's River Tours and rena m e d (b) DIAM O N D