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Algocen loads her last cargo on Dec. 16, 2004, at Duluth. (Glenn Blaskiewicz) Serapyard towed to India to be broken up, as were Canadian Trader and Canadian Venture, both 730-foot lakers last operated by Upper Lakes Group Inc. Fleetmate Canadian Mariner was scheduled to join them. However, the Mariner may stick around a little longer as a grain storage hull at Trois Rivieres, Que. Helped by the high price of scrap in 2004, several familiar lakers were sold for dismantling. The 1968-built Canadian bulk carrier Algocen was sold for use as a spoils barge on the U.S. East Coast, and will eventually find her way to the breakers. Besides Algocen, the Algoma Central interests divested itself of three aging, single-hulled tankers, Algocatalyst, Algosar and Algofax, as well as the handsome steamer Algosound. McKeil Marine also disposed of its brine tanker Capt. Ralph Tucker for dismantling at Alang, India’s infamous scrapyards. The long-idle barge M.A.C. Gagne, better known as Canada Steamship Lines’ Saguenay, was also ic The distinctive-looking tanker Capt. Ralph Tucker was sent to India for scrapping in 2004. (David Swain)