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ERIE QUEEN below Lock 1, service to Amoco International in the Middle East. She had been idled at Bay City, Michigan for several years. Five of our former passenger ves- sels went to salt water, but none are sailing. The Tadoussac: ended her service for Canada Steamship Lines after the 1965 season and was towed to Antwerp, Belgium the fol- lowing year as Passenger No. 2. Alterations were then made to con- vert her to a floating hotel and cafeteria, and she was towed to Copenhagen, Denmark as St. Lawrence. Late reports (see TELESCOPE, Vol. 19 No. 3) have her serving as emergency housing for Polish refugees. The year 1967 saw South American conclude her most successful season and her Great Lakes career when she was sold to the S. I. U. as a re- placement for the North American. The latter sank at the end of a tow- line on the Atlantic on September 13, 1967, while bound for Piney Point, Maryland. The union planned JULY AUGUST, 1970 Page 97 Welland Canal, outbound to east coast resturaunt use. Photo; Author's Collection to use her, as they had her late sister, for training merchant sea- men. The South's engines have been removed and replaced with cement as ballast at Norfolk, Virginia, but at last report she was still boarded up at Colonna's Shipyard. The Erie Queen (a; 5ainbridge, b; Algomah II) (see TELESCOPE Vol. 12; No. 4) was taken to Montreal in the summer of 1969 and thence to New York where she is destined to serve as a floating restaurant. Now moored there and bearing the name The Boat at River's Edge, she bears unfortun- ately little resemblance to the handsome vessel that sailed on the Great Lakes. One of the saddest items of news in 1969 concerned the burning, on November 9, or the Assiniboia. She departed the lakes under her own power in 1968, having been purchased by a Philadelphia restaurant group. Before a great deal of work had been done on converting her to her new intended use, fire completely des-