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Page 14 • GREAT LAKES & SEAWAY NEWS Sep 6 ... The CAPT. RALPH TUCKER was reflagged to St. Vincent & The Grenadines and renamed RALPH TUCKER for her trip to a Bangladesh scrapyard. ... The Lake Michigan ferry LAKE EXPRESS departed Milwaukee on her regular run to Muskegon but had to turn back due to high winds and 8 to 10 foot waves on the lake. They cancelled two trips before resuming service when the lake calmed down. Sep 7 ... Canadian American Transportation Systems announced they will stop operations tomorrow of the high speed ferry SPIRIT OF ONTARIO between Rochester and Toronto. Reasons for stopping the service include a debt of $1.7 million, extensive red tape, high fuel costs, government fees and delays in permission to carry lucrative freight trucks. It is hoped to begin service again by April 15, 2005. The ferry did carry about 140,000 passengers during its 80 days of operation. Sep 8 ... The dive search team in Duluth that announced in July they had found the wreck of the ROBERT WALLACE announced they had made a mistake and the wreck was not the WALLACE. The wreck is actually the THOMAS FRIANT, a steam powered passenger vessel that had been rebuilt into a commercial fishing boat, she sank on January 6, 1924 south of Two Harbors. She was launched at Grand Haven in 1884, after a fire in 1908 she was converted into a fishing boat by Halvor Reitan and Einar Miller of Bayfield, WI and brought to Lake Superior. They were doing so well that they decided to keep fishing into the winter months. As she proceeded down the lake towards Two Harbors she encountered heavy drifting ice, when they attempted to pass through the seams in her wood hull opened up. The rising water was more than her pumps could handle and soon the engine was under water. The crew took to the lifeboat just before she sank around 4:00 P.M. on the 6th. After nine hours of rowing they reached shore and were rescued. Sep 9 ... Upperlake's CANADIAN PROVIDER ended her temporary lay-up and departed Toronto crossing Lake Ontario and proceeding up the Welland Canal bound for Duluth. THOMAS FRIANT