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3. Marine News - cont'd. A serious ground ing, w hich p r e v i o u s l y escaped the notice of our n e w s - g a t h e r ers, in vol ved the USS Great Lakes Fleet's 1929 - v i n t a g e sel f - u n l o a d i n g m o t o r ship CA LC IT E II, (a) W I L L I A M G. CLYDE (61), w h i c h lost steering and took the shore hard on the C a n a d i a n side of the Detroit River b elow the Coast Guard st ati on at A m h e r s t b u r g on July 14th. The tugs PATRICIA HOEY, OR E G O N and ST OR MO NT a t t e n d e d the scene, and after part of CALCITE's cargo was l i ghtered out of her, the vessel was ref l o a t e d early on J uly 16th. She was t aken to the Ni c h o l s o n D oc k at Ecorse, where the r e m a i n d e r of her cargo was u n l o a d e d and the da mag e to the ship assessed. I m m e d i a t e l y thereafter, C A L C I T E II sa ile d for Toledo, e s c o r t e d by the G-tug OREGON, and she went right into the sh ipy ard at To l e d o for repairs. A n o t h e r s e l f - u n l o a d e r of the USS Great Lakes Fleet Inc. finally has reached the end of her long and succe s s f u l career. Idle since No vember of 1990 at Superior, Wi sco nsi n, has been the steamer I RVIN L. CLYMER, (a) CARL D. B R A D LEY (I ) (27 ), (b) J O H N G. M U N S O N (I )(51), w h i c h was built in 1917 as Hull 718 of the A m e r i c a n S h i p b u i l d i n g C o mpany's L o r a i n yard. She was built to the order of the B r a d l e y T r a n s p o r t a t i o n Company, and followed that fleet through its variou s stages of i n t e g r a t i o n into the U . S. Steel lake vessel o p e r a tions. She was re p o w e r e d w i t h Gene r a l E l e ctric steam turbines in 1954, and she later went th ro u g h a leng t h y period of idleness, following which she was s u b s t a n t i a l l y r e f i t t e d and retur n e d to service. She out l a s t e d all of the other f i r s t - g e n e r a t i o n B r a d l e y sel f - u n l o a d e r s w h i c h were her f leetmates for so long. L a t t e r l y laid up at the Superior p r e m i s e s of Fraser Shipyards Inc., the IRVIN was towed around to the A z c o n s c r a p y a r d at Duluth on June 18th by the G-tugs K A N S A S and MINNESOTA, and it was i n t e n d e d that the d i s m a n t l i n g of this han ds om e st eamer would begin during the summer months. The two remaining operative steamers of K i n s m a n Lines Inc. were both d r yd oc ke d by Fr aser S h i p y a r d s at Superior du r i n g the early summer of 1993. In late June, K I N S M A N E N T E R P R I S E (II), (a) H A R R Y COULBY (II)(89), was docked, and du r i n g the first week of July, she was followed into the s h i p yard by KINSMAN INDEPENDENT (III), (a) CHAR L E S L. H U T C H I N S O N (62), (b) ERNE ST R. B R E E C H (88). Upon c o m p l e t i o n of their respective shipyard visits, b oth steamers went back into the grain trade. The dryd ocking of these two ha nd so me ships w o u l d indicate that their owner plans to keep them in service for the foreseeable future. The ENTERPRISE was built in 1927, the IN DE PE N D E N T in 1952. The May, 1993, issue of "Marine News", m o n t h l y journal of The World Ship S o ciety, r e p or te d the s c r a p p i n g of an old friend from the lakes. Sold by Navisur S. A., de C . V. Mexico, to M e x i c a n breakers, and del i v e r e d at Tuxpan, Mexico, on S e p t e m b e r 14, 1992, was the m o t o r s h i p TELCHAC, (a) GRIF F O N (67), (b) F R A N Q U E L I N (II)(87), (c) EVA DES G A G N E S (89). Built as Hull 18 of Port Weller Dry Do cks Ltd. in 1955, she was one of three sisterships co n s t r u c t e d for B e a c o n s f i e l d Stea m s h i p s Ltd., Montreal. The other two were TECUMSEH, w hi ch also came from Port Weller, and B E L V O I R (II), which was built at Rame y's Bend, Hu m b e r s t o n e , by E. B. Magee Ltd. GRIF F O N later served the a f fi li at ed M o h a w k S t eamships Ltd. (another e n t e r p r i s e of R. A. Campbell, M o n t real), and e v e n t u a l l y passed to the Quebec and Ontario T r a n s p o r t a t i o n C o m pan y Ltd., and u po n its d i s s o l u t i o n in 1983, she became part of the fleet of Groupe D e sg ag ne s Inc. Your Editor well r e members the early morn i n g of S a t u r day, Se pte mbe r 23, 1989, w h e n he awoke to hear the sound of a m o t o r s h i p out on Toronto Bay. He reac h e d his front w i n d o w just in time to see EVA DESGAGNES, w h i c h had been laid up for some time at Toronto, he ading out the East e r n Gap w e a r i n g ne w stack colours and wit h the name TELCHAC on her bows. (Un fortunately, there was no time to pull on clothing and bicycle to the Gap, so we co uld not record the event on f i l m ! ) The only member of the B e a c o n sf ie ld trio still in exi s t e n c e is the last of them to be built (Port W e l ler in 1956), S T E L L A DESGAGNES, (a) TECUMSEH (67), (b) NEW Y O R K NEWS (III)(86), w h i c h is still se rving as a member of the Desgagnes fleet despite her ma ny years of hard use.