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SCRAPPED In our last issue we stated erronsously Meas a ‘MISSOURI had been broken up at Muskegon, Only part of the vessel's superstructure was removed there. Her Pi was ‘touad to Hamilton, Ontario in August, and will be scrapped there, along with her sister ship the ILLINOIS, In recent months four other veteran Great Lakes ships have made their last voyage with Hamilton as the destination. They are the ALASKA, ARTHUR ORR, ATHABASCA, and TORONTO, The ALASKA was iho oldest survivor of the well known Anchor Line fleet of Buffalo. She was built there in 1871, and was one of four sisters, the others veing the CHINA, INDIA, and JAPAN, Her hull had been lying abandoned behinds Mullen's coal dock in Sandwich for ten years or mora, The ARTHUR ORR and her sister vessel the GEORGE N.ORR were 350 foot package freighters built at Chicago in 1893 and 1894. During most of their career they were cwned by the Canada Atlantic Transit Co. and ran between Georgian Bay and Lake Michigan. The GEORGE N.ORR mint to the coast in World War I and was wrecked off Prince Edward Tei in 1919. Both were fine appearing and speedy ships, Messre Aitkew and Mensel) of Kelvinbaugh, Scotland built the ATHABASCA for the Canadien Pacific Railway. The ALEGRTA and ALGOMA alse came frém Clydebank yards in thet year. ‘The ALCOMA was wrecked on Isle Royale in 1887, on the same day that Lord Strathcona drove the golden spike which sompiloted the C.P.R, transcontinental line. The ATHABASCA Aili ALBSRTA each saw better than sixty years of service, The TORONTO, a stael sidewheeler, was one of the last ships of the old Richelieu and Ontario Line. She operated on Lake Ontario fran 1899 until the early forties, She bore a striking resemblance to the ke Michigan sidewheeler CITY of BUNTON HARBOR, both in size and line, The +; Bimiler wt slightly larger than the TORONTO, carries on the Tonortc to Fresvott TORPEOER service, ee HH TUGS ‘The old Canedian logging tug G,R,GRAY (ex TRAVELLER, ex CHIDF JUSTICE FIELD, ex BISMARCK) lies abandoned and stripped at Theesalon, Ontario, along with the smaller tug COLMODORE. The steel tug NORTHERN, until recently iv Ube pulpwova barge towing trade, is lying idle and for sale at OWe1i Goimd. The former Chicago fire "tug JOSEPH MEDILL, one of the worla‘ts first electrically propelled ships rf (1909), was broken up recently at Mgnitowoc, eeHRKH HH HE THE The Coast Guard Cutter Takoma, built at Bay City in 1936 is TAHOMA to be deccmmissioned, The Grond Haven station will be served henceforth by the larger and newer Diesel drivon WOODBINE , vuilt at Supurior during the War, The WOODBINE serwid racently in Porto Rico waters, What cae aS aae pps for the TAKOM, is not known, * * * TONG The San Francisco stdrmahseler DELTA QUZIN was towed 500° VOYAGE miles; via Panama and New Orleans, to Cincinnati, where ghe is being reconditioned for river cruise service in the Greene Line. : %. i ee eH not the 22nd, as CORMZCTION ; Mecting date, is the rien