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September TELESCOPE 214 GREAT LAKES AND SEAWAY NEWS ...Salvage lens to refloat the wreck of the British TRITONICA (a.TRITONIA have been abandoned by Marine Industries, Ltd., of Sorel due to high costs which would have amounted to the full value of the ship. The wreck will be buried where she lies 65 feet under the surface of the St. Lawrence off Ile aux Coudres, Quebec, to reduce the menace to navigation. The British ore carrier sank on July 20, 1963, after a collision with ROONAGH HEAD. ' August 2h...Captain Martin Joppich, master of the sunken CEDARVILLE (a.A.F. HARVEY), pleaded guilty to all four charges of faulty seamanship in the May 7 collision which took the lives of ten of his crew. LCDR Arthur Gove, OOMI at St. Ignace, said he would ask hearing examiner Charles Carroll to revoke or suspend Joppich's master's license. August 27...The 82 foot tug VEGCO of Kingston, N.Y., sank in upbound Lock #h of the Welland Canal after being rammed in the stern by the Swedish freighter EVA JEANNETTE. The bow of the freighter climbed up over the low stern of the tug, tipping it over and sinking it. Traffic was being maintained in the downbound section of the twin flight locks for five hours at a time in each direction. ...American Shipbuilding has launched the hOO x 75 foot mid- body for the Navy fleet oiler USS PAWCATUCK at its Lorain yrd. August 29...Great Lakes Dredge & Dock has received a contract from the Cleveland Plain Dealer to rebuild 61h feet of wharf along the south side of the old riverbed. The property is at the eastern end of a section of property purchased for a new plifit and will be used for the discharge of waterborne news- pr . August 30...The St. Lawrence Seaway Authority has awarded a $1,8h0,350 contract to C.A. Pitts Construction, Ltd., for a project to eliminate currents below Lock #7 at Thorold. August 31...Fraser Shipyards, Inc., Superior, Wisconsin, announce that Theodore J. Brush, who has been Hull Superinten- dent at the Superior shipyard, has moved up to the newly created poaition of General Superintendent. Succeeding Mr. Brush is Norman H. Robertson of Trenton, Michigan. ...Misener's LAKETON (a.SAXONIA) has been sold to Newfoundland interests, possibly Crosbie's, and will be used as a floating grain elevator. The tug BUFFALO (a.BUFFALO, b.U.S.E.C. CHURCHILL) is shown arriving at Superior in late July to commence operations for Floating Equipment, Inc., a subsidiary of Fraser Shipyards, Inc. Originally built at Cleveland in 1912 by Great Lakes Towing as one of seventeen "city class" tugs, BUFFALO served in the U.S. Army Engineers Corps from 1920 to l9h9, and since that time has been operated by Boland & Cornelius for the American Steamship Company, principally on Lake Ontario. (Fraser Shipyard Photo).