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JULY AUGUST, 1970 Page 96 floating drydock at Bathurst, N. B. This plan fained to materialize and she remained moored at the wharf of the Gloucester Lumber Company at Bathurst. In the fall of 1968 she was sold to Halifax Salvage and Dredging Co. She was towed to Hal- ifax and cut between number 2 and 3 hatches to form two barges intended for use in construction of offshore drilling rigs at Halifax. The Halfueler (a; Biessard, b; Peintge, ¢, Pollan Bay. die mgansilalce)) serves as a bunkering barge for Texaco in Halifax Harbour. She was to have joined I. O. L. Barge No. 6, which had left the lakes prior to the opening of the Seaway, but at almost the same time that venerable veteran was replaced by Imperial Cornwall in bunkering service. Newfoundland is now home for Zen- ava (a; Redfern). She joined the fleet of Fishery Products, Ltd., in 1963 as a floating fish processing plant with a storage capacity of some 2 million pounds. Her engine removed at Sorel, prior to her trip to the east coast, she is now class- ed as a non-propelled barge. She has been stationed at various ports in Newfoundland and Labrador, and at last report was being used to freeze whale meat. The tanker Traverse City Socony Was renamed Raymond J, Bushey in March, 1962. She is Presently owned lon S. DD). Maddock, Inc., Brooklyn, and is reputed to be bunkering in the New York area. The Log Transporter (ap Bagies- CUS des Helse oe ae acl Barclay) entered the west coast trade. She was sold in October, 1959, after being idle at Lauzon, and her new name well depicted her service. On October 25, 1961, while under tow from Rivers Inlet to Teakearne Arm, Redona Island, British Columbia, she went down in the vicinity of Cape Mudge. The former Straits ferry Vacation- fand its "in senvicel fom the British Columbia Ferry Authority. When the Mackinac Bridge opened the vessel was sold for proposed fishyback ser- vice (hauling special trailer bodies on Lake Erie) and renamed Jack Da/- ton, This failed, and the ship was sold Canadian where she was again renamed Pere Nouvel. Under that name she transited cross-St. Lawrence from Rimouski to Baie Comeau, Quebec until 1968, when she was again sold. Making the voyage through the Pan- ama Canal, she wound up at the west coast of Canada where she now serves as Sunshine Coast Queen, The Mackinac Islander also found her way to the west coast by way of the Panama Canal. She left the lakes via the Mississippi in 1968 to work the King Crab industry in Alaska. Four tankers crossed the Atlantic under their own power and entered service in the Mediterranean, and a fifth is slated to join them short- ly. The shallow draft of these small Win tan wan wjelsiselismnies valuable in the task of delivering petroleum products along the coast and inlets of Italy and Greece. The Elba (a; Britamoil, b; Island Transport) and Capria (a; Britamlube b; Bay Transport: ) (see TELESCOPE, Vol. 14; No. 1) were purchased by Gaetano D'Alesio and Ettore Castaldi of Leghorn, Italy. Modifications have permitted them to unload at the bow, stern, and side. The bridge has been reinforced and cranes have heen installed for lifting hoses over the side. Elba was recently sold to 1h (C5 & IN, Castalléli . Ware Sieeiiiai (as jmseime C€, Lulilen The Stella (a; Justine C. Allen, b; Bayshell: ) ended her local ser- vice as a bunkering barge in the Montreal Harbour. She is now reported operating along the coast of Greece, and is joined in that area by Linni (a; Minneapolis Husky, b; Republic Pittsburgh, c; Clark Milwaukee) of the Triad Shipping Company of London England. Built originally for the New York barge canal, she crossed the Atlantic in 1964. In 1969, the Amoco Michigan (a; Robert W. Stewart) was towed to New York City to be reconditioned for