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Marine News - cont'd.. 14. her port propellor, d a m a g i n g the port engine. IRVING C E D A R assis t e d in g e t ting the tow to Mulgrave, but funds for the repair of the tug were not r e a dily available and it was not until O c t o b e r 3rd that N E F T E G A Z - 1 6 arri v e d at Halifax. The two lakers were still at M u l g r a v e in early November. N O R T H E R N BELLE, the new W i n d s o r casino boat, has a r r i v e d in the lakes. She d e p arted New Orle a n s on S e p tember 28th on the deck of the s e m i - s u b m e r s i b l e barge CAPS EXPRESS, towed by the tug H A R V E Y TROJAN, and arri v e d at M o n t r e a l on October 15th. She cleared Montreal u n d e r her own power on the 17th, and after stops at a number of ports, arri v e d at Windsor on N o v e m b e r 18th. The Dofasco p lant at H a m i l t o n now has only one of its three ore bridges in operation. Br i d g e No. 2 c o l l a p s e d back in March, k i l l i n g its operator, as a result of fracture of one of its legs. Bridges 1 and 3 were taken out of serv ice then, and No. 1, w h i c h was f ound to be subject to the same stress problems, was d e s t r o y e d by c o ntrolled e x p l o s i o n in September. No. 3, of n e w er design, was fina lly put back in service late in October. Bridge 3 is required, a c c o r d i n g to Dofasco, because "interim m e a s u r e s using mobile d e r ricks and a s e l f - u n l o a d i n g transfer s t a t i o n (read H A M I L T O N T R A N S F E R - E d . ) have n't proved a s a t i s f a c t o r y long-term solution". In the Octo ber issue, we m e n t i o n e d that the Enerchem Transport Inc. tanker E N E R C H E M REFINER, (a) I N D U S T R I A L TRA N S P O R T (86), after lying idle at Sarnia during the summer, had taken a cargo dow n to the St. Lawrence River (a c c o m panied by a tug because of mech a n i c a l problems and the e x p i r a t i o n of her ticket) and then went to the Verreault shipyard at Les Mechins, Quebec, for drydocking. Happ ily, E N E R C H E M REFINER was overh a u l e d and put b ack in class, and since has r e t u r n e d to service. Interestingly, however, she no w has a green hull and this w ould appear to p o r t e n d a change in colours for the w hole E n e r c h e m fleet. M i s s i n g from Toro n t o H a r b o u r these days is Marip o s a Cruise Lines' CAPT. M A T T H E W FLINDERS, a r g u a b l y the most impr e s s i v e of the city's p arty boats. The FLINDERS sailed on N o v e m b e r 13th for Florida, where she will operate d u ring the winter, hop e f u l l y to return n o r t h w a r d s in the spring. Meanwhile, an a d v e r t i s e m e n t in "The Globe and Mail" on November 2nd called for bids by N o vember 20th for the p u r chase of the i n t erest of The New Job Clinic Ltd. in the former T o r o n t o party boat JAGUAR II, c u r rently lying at Hike Metal P r o ducts Ltd. at Whea tley, Ontario. Further "fallout" from the o v e r - s u p p l i e d Toronto party boat trade is expected as operators r e t r e n c h their services. In the October issue, we r e p o r t e d the u p c o m i n g conve r s i o n of the A lgoma C e n tral C o r p . 's s t r a i g h t - d e c k e r CAPT. H E N R Y JACK M A N to a self-u n l o a d e r over the coming winter at Port We l l e r Dry Docks. The c o n v e r s i o n o r i g i n a l l y was s c heduled to b e g i n in October, and then was postponed until later, but the J A C K M A N arrived at the shipy a r d on the a f t e r n o o n of N o v e m b e r 14th. A c c o r d i n g to the October issue of "Marine News", journal of the W orld Ship Society, two salt-water sister- t a n k e r s that have o p e rated into the lakes were damaged in accidents occurring just days apart. On 14th August, ICEPURHA, owned by Olym pus N a v i g a t i o n Inc., Bahamas, suffered an e n g i n e r o o m fire whil st en route from Pascagoula, Mississippi, to Miami, Florida. She arrived in tow at Mobi le on August 18th. Then, on August 22nd, ICEVINHA, owned by H e r a c l e s N a v i g a t i o n Inc., Bahamas, suffered c o n s i derable damage in a c o l lision w i t h a tank barge. This ship also went to Mobile for repairs, a r r iving there on August 23rd. J OSEPH H. FRANTZ, built in 1925, converted to a self- u n l o a d e r in 1965, and by far the oldest vessel still serving the Oglebay No r t o n Company's fleet, has kept busy in 1995. Amon g s t some of the unusual cargoes she has carried have been eight loads of taconite tailings w hich she has hauled from Escanaba, Michigan, to A l p e n a for Lafarge Cement.