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Ship of the Mon th - cont'd. When she pa ss ed Quebec City, her crew spied IMPERIAL SIMCOE and IMPERIAL WE LL AN D tied up there, w a i t i n g to head overseas. After u n l o a d i n g at H a l i f a x and r e l oa di ng for coastal delivery, the W I N D S O R sailed for Curl i n g and Port Saunders, Ne wf ou ndland, ports she had not visi t e d since 1957. Duri ng the rest of that season, IMPERIAL W I N D S O R v i s i t e d such i n t e r e s t i n g places as Port aux Basques, Seal Cove on Fogo Island, Twillingate, Indian Bay, St. John's, Ha rbour Buffet, Milltown, Harb o u r Breton, Bay L'Argent, Goose Bay, Le wis porte, Springdale, Campbellton, Saint John, Newcast le, Fore st vil le and Gaspe before head i n g back into the lakes at the end of the year. Before we leave the year 1965, we should note that, a l t h o u g h the ret i r e d I M PERIAL SIMCOE and IMPERIAL W E L L A N D ar rived at Santander, Spain, on October 13th, after an ev entful tow across the Atlantic, they were still at Quebec on Au gus t 31st, and a report from the "Fleet News" c o r r e s p o n d e n t ab oard I M PERIAL LO ND ON gave some i n t e r e s t i n g detail. It seems that, in d e s p e r a t i o n to get the old tankers away (did they have trouble ge tting a tug? - E d . ), the scrapp ers even went so far as getting steam up on the WELLAND, and she was in steam on Au gus t 31. A c c o r d i n g to the pilot, the W E L L A N D set out d o w n r i v e r wit h the SIMCOE in tow, but not long after leaving the dock at Quebec, the WEL LA ND 's engine gave out, the towline parted, and the d e a d s h i p SIMCOE p a s sed by her consort. The two a p p a r e n t l y were c o rralled and re turned to the dock to await the arrival of an ocean tug. The Summer, 1966, issue of "Fleet News" ca rried an i n t e r e s t i n g item e n t itled "A Dif fi cu lt Towage" which, albeit in f r actured English, des c r i b e d the a d ve nt ur es of the SIMCOE and W E L L A N D once they finally were under tow: "Capt. Jacque s Gendron, O p erations Mana g e r of M c A l l i s t e r Towing Ltd., Montreal, and a former Imperi al Oil seaman, sent us a tearsheet from L. Smit C o mpany's p u b l i c a t i o n with p hotographs of their tugs LOIRE and SCHELDE towing IMPERIAL SIMCOE and IMP ER IAL WELL A N D to Spain. An a c c o m p a n y i n g story says: 'The crews of our tugs LOIRE and SCHELDE have turned the worst corner, a period of tension in w hi ch they strained every effort to save a dual t o w . ' "'The LOIRE, towing two lakers, IMPERIAL WELL A N D and IMPER I A L SIMCOE, from Ca nada to Spain, en c o u n t e r e d ext r e m e l y bad weat h e r some hund r e d miles n . n . e. of the Azores. A gale - force 12 - was roaring, the towing c o n n e c t i o n with the IM PER IAL SIMCOE parted and the vessel went adrift. W i t h i n two hours, the SIMCOE d i s a p p e a r e d compl e t e l y out of sight. On top of this, three days later, towing co nn e c t i o n number 2 parted and also the IMPERIAL W E L L A N D p r ef er re d f r e e d o m . ' "'Smit's tug SCHELDE, ope r a t i n g off Brest, was d i r ected to the storm area. On Monday, Oc tob er 4, LOIRE, as well as SCHELDE, each succeeded in r e c o n ne ct i n g one laker. As the SC HEL DE was u r g e n t l y needed for other work, she gave over her tow to the LOIRE. U l t i m a t e l y this tug fi nished the difficult towage b y de li v e r i n g both lakers to S a n t a n d e r . '" The same Summer, 1966, "Fleet News" issue repor t e d that IMPERIAL W IN D S O R ' S m u c h - w o r n Ce rt if i c a t e of Brit i s h R e g i s t r y was sent to Imperial's Toronto head office in F e b r u a r y of 1966, as all the space on it was filled and it was n e c e s s a r y to obtain a new c ertificate from Windsor, her port of r e g i s try. The or igi nal document had been issued at Windsor for the W I N D S O L I T E on May 27th, 1927. The ar tic le went on to list all of the mast e r s whose names appeared on the old certificate; i n t e r e s t i n g detail, surely, but we shall spare "Scanner" readers the tedium of the list. Some other informative notes were shown on the or igi nal cer tificate, however, such as the installation of new equipment. The ship re ceived a d i r e c t i o n finder on June 28, 1937; ship-toshore telephone on October 25, 1945; three- w a t c h shifts started May 8, 1946, w ith a crew of 30 aboard; radar was i n s talled in March of 1950, and a g y r o compa ss was put aboard in M a r c h of 1951. Du rin g 1966, in contrast w i t h the 1965 season, IMPERIAL W I N D S O R stayed in the lakes. G e t t i n g an early start on M arch 17th, she o f f i c i a l l y opened five