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Plans have been abandoned to turn the 1904-built J.B. Ford into a marine museum. She will likely be scrapped instead. (Roger LeLievre, 1978) 2 MORE ALGOMAS GONE Algoma Progress and Algoma Transfer were sctset surplus tonnage and sent to the boneyard by the Algoma Central Corp. last season. The Algoma Progress’ story is pretty straightforward ~ she w: built as a self-unloader in 1968 as Canadian ess for Upper Lake Shipping Ltd,, and was renamed Hgts prea in 2011 after a fleet merger with Algoma. The Algoma Transfers history is a little complicated, since the forward end and cargo section came from one vessel, the 1943-built .H. Hillman J ee Crispin Oglebay-2) and the aft section was added on from the Cabot (later Canadian Explorer).She was a unique hybrid, a Great Lakes workhorse with a career that included time spent as a cargo transfer vessel at Hamilton, Ont. named, appropriately, Hamilton Transfer. Algoma Progress in the Welland Canal on the way to the scrapper, Dec. 30, 2014. (Ted Wilush)