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JULY AUGUST, 1970 Page 98 troyed her at her dock at West Dep- tford, New Jersey. Two former canallers entered the sea lanes as tramp steamers but neither survived long in this trade. The ITHAKA (a; Frank A. Augsbury) originally left the Great Lakes as b; Granby, when she was requisitioned by the British War Ministry. After the war she served as c; Parita II in Panamanian registry and d; Val- bruna under the Italian flag. In 1952 she returned to the lakes as e; Lawrencecliffe Halli and later served the lakes and coast as f; Federal Explorer. In 1960 she was once more sold and renamed. During a gale on Hudson Bay in September of that year her rudder broke, and when her anchors failed to hold she went aground ten miles east of Churchill, Manitoba, and was declared a total loss. The Weyburn was laid up at Kingston by C275... from 1lO6ietintiilleheresaitc in.1963. While transporting a cargo of grain from Houston, Texas, to Ga ast pricy HAE RUE EERO at tenes Dock, May 10, 1969. Pakistan, she suffered an engine fail- ure and had to be towed from Bermuda to Cueta, Spanish Morocco. She was then repaired and went on to Aden. After attempting to cross the Indian Ocean during the monsoon season she was forced back and her captain, the seventh to take command, threatened to quit. It was finally agreed to tow Weyburn to Karachi to complete the journey. She remained there until 1966 when she was cut up for scrap. The largest group of vessels have found useful service in the region of the West Indies, Central, and South America. While it is very difficult to determine the exact duties of many of these vessels it appears that many are continuing in the same general trade as they had on the Great Lake. Serving in the tanker trade is the Captain Theo (a; Britimolene, b; Wave Transport) of the Western Ship- ping Company of Panama. She left the lakes in 1963 when she became Flor- Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, on Photo by: James R. Axler.