Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Telescope, v. 14, n. 10 (October 1965), p. 238

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October TELESCOPE 238 GREAT LAKES AND SEAWAY NEWS Inc. immediately and is expected to go into service in mid- October under a new name, as yet unannounced. Kinsman also stated that the 0.3. ROBINSON (a.LOFTUS CUDDY) is being re- paired and will sail from Superior shortly. September 22...Marine Industries, Ltd. of Sorel have been awarded a $10,250,000 contract by the Department of Transport for a combination icebreaker-buoy tender for the Canadian Coast Guard. The new vessel is slated for operation in the Gulf of the St. Lawrence and eastern Arctic. ...The newest addition to the Atlanttrafik Line, the 8700-ton PACIFIC OCEAN, arrived in Montreal on her maiden voyage. The refrigerated cargo ship will operate in the Great Lakes to Australia service. The Last Chapter The J.J.H. BROWN and JAMES E. McALPINE (a.WILLIAM H. TRUES- DALE),sold by Brown Steamship Company to Marine Salvage, Ltd., Port Colborne and resold to the Italian shipbreakers Ardem, Vado, arrived in tow at Genoa on July 19, 1965. The tanker L. S. WESCOAT (a.WILLIAM R. LINN), sold by Pure Oil Company to Marine Salvage in 196k, and MATAAFA (a.PENNSYL- VANIA), sold by Ranahan-MeCarthy Marine Terminal to Marine Salvage in l96h,were resold to German shipbreakers and arrived at Hamburg on July 19, 1965. The NORCO (a.INCA), owned by J.M. Chabot, Nassau, Bahamas, and which went aground April 19, 196a, on Little Corn Island off the east coast of Nicaragua, has been declared a construc- tive total loss. The tanker DANIEL PIERCE (a.E.W. SINCLAIR, b.DANIEL PIERCE, c.8HIKELIAMY),owned by the Panama-Florida Shipping Line, Inc., Panama, and which arrived at Guanica, Puerto Rico during July 196M, with a leaking cargo of sulphuric acid, was beached at that time and has now been declared a constructive total loss. -George Ayoub

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