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TELESCOPE Page 8 deepened by 5 feet, 6 inches. This increased her carrying capacity to 5,900 deadweight. Ownership of Tecumseh and her sistership Belvoir (ii) and Griffon was transferred to Mohawk Navigation in 1963. She served them until a sale to Q & O in 1967. It was at this time she assumed the name of New York News. The first season under her new name was anything but uneventful. On July 9 she suf- fered light damage in a collision off Escoumins with the deep sea vessel Nordglimt. Inte- restingly this latter vessel was reported as going for scrap as Karachi, Pakistan in the fall of 1983. A much more serious incident occurred on July 18 when New York News was at Pugwash, Nova Scotia to load salt. Loading operations did not go smoothly for while the cargo was coming aboard the hull buckled in the middle forming a "V". All crew members scrambled to safety as the ship settled on the bottom. Refloated, she was patched sufficiently to be taken to Halifax for repairs. During the last fifteen years, New York News (iii) has carried varieties of grain to such ports as Collingwood, Owen Sound, Goderich, Hamilton and Toronto. Pig iron out of Sorel, Quebec had been hauled to Lake Erie ports, pitch from Detroit headed east to Baie Comeau while wheat has been taken from Wallaceburg. On occasion New York News has stayed in the east to haul zinc concentrate from Newfoundland to Valleyfield, Quebec. Al- though she has carried some newsprint, none has been handled lately. Only some minor problems marred her recent performance. On September 18, 1979, she grounded off the mouth of the Detroit River and was not freed until the 20th. Then on August 11, 1982, she spent ten hours on a sandbar off Ogdensburg, New York. Tugs helped pull the ship free on both occasions. For most of the past sixty years the name New York News has traveled the Great Lakes, but as this is written, it remains to be seen if we have seen the last edition of the New York News. Oo The NEW YORK NEWS (iii) below Lock 3 in August, 1970. Author's Photo