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Having reached the respectability of a fifth edi- tion, our Seaway Salties feature has cumulatively grown into a useful body of information on ocean ships visiting the lakes each season. The five Seaway issues offer a body of information not available elsewhere; the ship registers of ocean vessels do not distinguish which vessels have a lake history. In sizing up the value of these Seaway issues, we have had to choose between a list published as close as possible to the end of the shipping season in question, and one which is as complete and accurate a record as possible . We have given preference to the latter, not only for the length of time it takes to produce a list such as this. On the one hand, we find that many ocean visitors repeat regularly, while a similar- ly large proportion trade with the lakes for only a single season, probably only a_ single trip. Since we cannot anticipate at season's beginning which will be these latter vessels, river watch- ers will not be much more inconvenienced by hav- ing a two-year-old list rather than a -one-year- old one. And on the other hand, there are very many ocean ships which change hands and names just before their first lake visit; there is a long time lag before these vessels' appear in print in the sources consulted for filling out this list. Accordingly, there would be fgreat gaps in our List "A", and List "B" would be al- most inconceivable at an earlier publishing date. Introduction Our first issue of Seaway Salties was prepared by 'Donald Baut for Telescope of May, 1962, containing only the List "A", describing ocean visitors for the seasons of 1959 to 1961; thus our List "A" is complete back to the opening of the Seaway. George Ayoub of Ottawa contri- buted the List ""B" beginning in our second Seaway for Telescope of May, 1963, covering the of Detroit issue, 1962 season. Two other Seaway 1ssues were pub- lished in September, 1964 (for 1963), and May, 1966 (for 1964). In all of these issues, the photographs of Emory Massman have been a popular feature for the List "A". That there are not more of his pictures in this issue is due to an editorial mistake of ordering views from the 1966 season, many of which were not relevant to 1965. Photographs for the List "B" come from the col- lections of George Ayoub and Donald Baut. As the production of Seaway issues involves perhaps the work that goes into at least three normal issues of Telescope, it seems proper to recognize this fact in dating this issue as a "double" one' for March and April. We should also note that our "sample" is a bit more restricted this year, as it is taken from vessel passages reported for the Welland Canal, and thus lacks' those ships. that came no further than Lake Ontario. In the three previous lists, we had used a source reporting ships transitting the upper St. Lawrence River. --Gordon Bugbee, Editor for this issue Cover view: A Don Baut photo of pre-Seaway freighter Heilo, which also came to the lakes as Spind and Capetan Vassilis. Under the last name, she was lost in the Med- iterranean in 1965, She is of special interest for hav- ing been built at Superior, Wisconsin, during the Second World War, as Tully Crosby. OS Ttidy/yosey AdOOSATAL