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Telescope 211 The Lucas County Bank in Toledo Is "positively not interested" in scrapping the excursion steamer CANADIANA according to the bank president. The bank held a $30,000 mortgage on the ship and secured title to the ship last spring. October 26 Defoe Shipbuilding Company states that the USS HENRY B. WILSON will leave Bay City November 22 for commissioning into the Atlantic Fleet. October 30 The JOHN SHERWIN, 710 foot ore carrier loaded with 21,500 tons of ore ripped a gash in her hull and sinks in the St. Mary's River eight miles above the Soo Locks. The S.S. ALABAMA ex-luxury ship will be scrapped. Georgian Bay Line officials report the ship is to be sold to Ted Brink of Saugatuck. October 31 The TOM GIRDLER wrecks its prop and rudder at the west approach to the Soo Locks and runs aground. However, she is pulled free hours later by a tug and two Coast Guard cutters. VESSEL CHANGES PICTON (MEADCLIFFE HALL, a) sold by underwriters to Surplus Shipping Corp., Venezuela, renamed EL LLANDER0. She was sold by Colonial S.S., Ltd., to Kingcome Navigation Co., Ltd., of Vancouver, B.C., in September 1959. On her way around, she had suffered severe bottom damage during a hurricane in October 1959# while off the Bahamas. HEMLOCK Arrived at Savona, Italy, August 2i., I960, for scrapping. KADIO S (WAR FOX, a; LAKE FOREST, bj VENETIER, c; TABAKHANDEL, d; ESTE, e; CHOLLEN, f; RAFAEL ARIZTIA, g; SAN PATRICIO, h; MARY V, I) was sold by G. Sigalas Sons, Piraeus, Greece, to Spanish Shipbreakers; arrived at Gijon. Spain, August 17, I960. She had been built as a "laker" by Detroit SB Company, Wyandotte, Michigan, in 1917, for U.S. Shipping Board. FEDERAL EXPLORER (FRANK A. AUGSBURY, a; GRANBY, b; PARITA II, c; VALBRUNA, d; LAWRENCECLIFFE HALL, e). Sold by Federal Commerce & Navigation Co., Ltd., Montreal, to Ithaka Shipping Co., Nassau, BWI, renamed ITHAKA. COASTAL CASCADES (CHARPENTIER, a; VERNON, b; CEDARBAY, c; JOAN VIRGINIA, d). Owned by Coastalake Tankers, Ltd., Montreal, under charter to Canadian Petrofina Co., Ltd., Montreal, for use as storage hulk; foundered at Montreal, July 21., 1960.