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PASSAGES ee ore CSL Assiniboine, shown on the St. Marys River during her first trip after receiving anew forebody in 2005. She sailed previously as Jean Parisien. (Eric Treece) Fleets Oglebay Norton exits ship business &Vessels Another long-established shipping company has disappeared from the Great Lakes with the sale this winter of the Oglebay Norton Marine Services fleet, the origins of which can be traced back to 1854. The steamer Buckeye was disposed of in 2005 and will see further service as a barge for K&K Warehousing of Menominee, Mich. The Reserve was also sold to K&K, and will continue to run under its own power, at least this year. At press time, the new ownership of the vessels had not been announced (visit our Web site, www.knowyourships.com, where that information will be posted as soon as it is available). The move brings to an end the company under whose flag the ill-fated Edmund Fitzgerald sailed, and continues the trend toward consolidation of lake fleets that has been evident in recent years. Much to the surprise of boatwatchers, the bulk carrier Teakglen, which sailed most of her life for the N.M. Paterson & Sons interests as Mantadoc and in fact only made one trip under she name Teakglen before tying up for use as a grain storage hull, returned to service in 2005. Ow :w company Voyageur Marine Transport Ltd., and flying the Canadian flag, the esse sails as Maritime Trader. Voyageur Marine also saved another classic laker from the scrapyard the grain fitted with a diesel engine at Hamilton and returned to service last fall as Voyageur independen The 826-foot Lee A. Tregurtha has surrendered her claim as longest steam-powered vessel on the Great Lakes. She was converted to diesel power during winter lay up earlier this year. Amid-season as in 2005 saw two familiar, one-time Bethlehem Steel Corp. 1,000-footers under new operators. The Burns Harbor now sails for American Steamship Co., while Stewart J. Cort ~ the Great Lakes’ ney 000-footer - is operated by the Interlake Steamship Co. The cement barge Innovation, built Bay Shipbuilding Co, Sturgeon Bay. Wis. for the LaFarge interests, has entered service, paired with the tug Samuel de Champlair 12 KYS ‘06