Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Telescope, v. 14, n. 11 (November 1965), p. 260

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November TELESCOPE 260 GREAT LAKES AND SEAWAY NEWS October l3...The St. Lawrence Seaway Authority will remain open through December 3. The closing date will be extended on a day-to-day basis, weather permitting. The closing date for the Lachine and Cornwall Canals is November 30. The Canadian 800 Canal will close December 12 and the Welland Cana1,Dec.15. ...Next summer the Detroit district of the Corps of Engineers, which has jurisdiction over the 800 Looks, expects to open a tourist information center there. Artifacts which have some direct relation to the $00 and the Locks are desired. Address correSpondence concerning same to: "District Engineer, U.S. Army Engineers District, P.O. Box 1027, Detroit, Michigan, h823l" or "Area Engineer, U.s. Army Engineer District, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, 19783". October lh...The HOEGH CLIFF, a A96 foot Norwegian freighter, listed 1h degrees to port after a hole 30 to ho feet long was ripped in her bottom when she rammed a pier while entering Kenosha harbor. No one was injured in the accident. October 15...The total tonnage - import and export - of over- seas cargo handled at Milwaukee's port in the first nine months of this year was 593,802, an increase of 32% over the h50,095 tons last year. October 16...The Arnold Transit Company of Mackinac Island, announces that three vessels will be lengthened 20 feet in Erie at Paasch Marine Service - the OTTAWA (already enroute), the CHIPPEWA, and the ALGOMAH. ...The Bob-Lo Company has a new and larger boat to carry passengers between Bob-Lo Island and Amherstburg. It is the WINDMILL POINT built in l95h at Kingston, Ontario. October 19...The HOEGH CLIFF sank for the second time in Kenosha Harbor. The second sinking was caused by a lightering barge which was used to lighter the flour cargo. The barge hit the patched hole and knocked it into the ship's hold. Salvage crews are welding steel plates over the hole before attemptin to raise her again. ...Col. arle B. Butler, Harbor Commissioner, Cleveland; Andrew W. Fleming,of the Detroit-Wayne County Port Commission; and C. w. Morgan, General Manager of the Hamilton Harbor Commission were three of the 22 directors elected by the American Association of Port Authorities. October 20...A $13,191,237 contract has been awarded to Canadian Vickers Ltd., Montreal, by the DOT for a quadruple- screw diesel-electric ferry for east coast service. The vessel will carry 90 autos, 2h railway cars, and accommodate 1,000 day passengers. October 21...Sister Rose Marie (nee Alice M. O'Callahan) came from the Philippines and christened a destroyer escort in a ceremony on the Saginaw River. She named the 3,h00 ton USS

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