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the scrapyard than were added to Great Lakes fleets. Besides E.G. Grace, B.F. Affleck, Eugene W. Pargny, Eugene P. Thomas, Pontiac and Saginaw Bay made the one-way trip to the scrapyard. 30 Years 1974 The tanker Saturn entered service as the first of three vessels built for Cleveland Tankers in the ‘70s. Other new vessels. this year included Algosoo (the last traditional-style laker built with pilothouse forward and engines aft), Wolverine and H. Lee White. James E. Ferris shows off her handsome lines Aug. 23, 1971, downbound in the St. Marys River. (Roger LeLievre) Incan Superior began an 18-year career carrying railroad cars between Thunder Bay, Ont., and Superior, Wis., in July. She was sold for off-lakes use in late 1992. Roy A. Jodrey sank in the St. Lawrence River after running aground in the Thousand Islands-area on Nov. 21, 1974. The 640-foot self-unloader was built for Algoma Central Railway in 1965. The beautiful steamer James E. Ferris, built in 1910, arrived in Buffalo with her last cargo in October. The 465-foot straight-decker was one of the smallest vessels to operate on the Great Lakes into the mid-1970s. 40 Years / John T. Hutchinson and Richard J. Reiss became the first / Maritime-class vessels to be converted to self-unloaders. Of the 1964 16 members of this class, only four others have been converted to self-unloaders. The others were the Frank Purnell (later Robert C. Norton), Crispin Oglebay (part of which is now the Canadian Transfer), George A. Sloan (now Mississagi) and J. Burton Ayers (now Cuyahoga). The 1960s were tough years for overseas scrap tows from the Great Lakes. One such vessel, the Fayette Brown, was wrecked off Anticosti Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Dec. 10, 1964, after departing the Great Lakes on her scrap tow. 50 Ye , Aftera flurry of activity during the previous several years, more ears / _ of this year’s shipyard work shifted toward reconstruction. The 1954 "tankers Imperial Woodbend and Imperial Redwater were converted to dry straight-deck bulk carriers and renamed Golden Hind and R. Bruce Angus, respectively. Completion of an oil pipeline between Superior and Sarnia made these 3-year-old tankers obsolete. > KYS ‘04 13