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Page 14 • GREAT LAKES & SEAWAY NEWS CANADIAN TRANSFER secured at Marquette waiting to load - October 31,1999 ... Algoma Tanker's ALGOCATALYST entered a temporary lay-up at Sorel. ... A group called USS LST Memorial, Inc. is planning to bring LST-391 back to the United States from Greece next year. They received approval from Congress on October 5 as part of a National Defense Appropriations Bill that was passed. Once back in the states, they plan to have the LST travel around the country so the public can visit the ship. Port Huron members of the group hope to bring her into the Great Lakes in the future. Nov 10 ... The town of Goderich purchased the Government Elevators and surrounding property from the Federal Government. Nov 11 ... Upperlake s CANADIAN TRANSFER made her first trip ever into Duluth/Superior with salt loaded in Goderich. After unloading she loaded taconite at Superior for Algoma Steel at the Soo. Then she made several trips into Marquette where she loaded taconite for Algoma Steel in the Soo. She loaded on November 15, 17, 19, 20, December 7, 9, 11, 12, 14 & 16. ... The Desgagnes tanker MARIA DESGAGNES ran aground in the St. Lawrence Seaway opposite Galop Island putting a hole in her starboard side. After being freed she proceeded to Prescott for repairs. Nov 12 ... A crewmen from the research vessel KIKI was found floating in the water near the ship and was pronounced dead at the scene. The KIKI was on her delivery trip from Pensacola, FL to Ashland, WI when they stopped in Oswego overnight. He was found when the crew woke up and he was missing. The KIKI passed up the Welland Canal on November 18. Photo by : Rod Burdick