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SHIPS The JOHN 0. McKELLAR carried a record load of 703,086 bushels of wheat recently. The ERNEST T. WEIR brought the largest cargo of ore ever unloaded at Cleveland, 21,057 tons, equivalent to 368 railroad cars. The C. & O. car ferry, PERE MARQUETTE 22, has returned to service on Lake Michigan after her rebuild, which included addition of a O foot new midsection, wit new boilers and engines. One large "coffee pot" style stack has replaced he two former stacks. Her sister ferry, the P.M. 21, has gone to the Manitowoc yards for a similar going over. The hulk of the U.S.S. SCORPION has been raised from the bottom of Penetanguishene Harbor, where the vessel has lain since a few years after the War of 1812. The Hutchinson freighters, W. H. McGEAN (ex Stadacona) and FRANK BILLINGS (ex Champlaine), are to be converted from coal to oil fuel, and will receive new channel tank tops at the Rudd Machine Co. in Cleveland this winter. Rudd has recently completed the mod- ernization of Merritt, Chapman, Scott's tug AUBREY, including the installa- tion of a 300 h.p. diesel engine. The C-l type vessel, MARINE STAR, has been brought up the Mississippi to Lake Michigan, and will winter in Muskegon, before being taken to Manitowoc for further alterations. Rumors state that she will be a passenger ship, to be operated by her owners, the Wisconsin and Michigan Line. One guess on her future name is CHICAGO CLIPPER. Mohawk Navigation Co. has purchased the tanker, IMPERIAL WOODBEND, from Imperial Oil and will convert her into a bulk freighter at Port Colborne this winter. It. is reliably reported that Upper Lakes & St. Lawrence will get IMPERIAL RED- WATER for a similar conversion. No authentic information on IMPERIAL LEDUC at the moment. IMPERIAL SARNIA will be taken to the coast via the Mississippi this winter and will be used in salt water service by Imperial Oil. The new self-unloader, JOHN J. BOLAND (third ship of that name), is now in service. The tug, BUTTERFIELD, during the past summer, moved 12 rafts across Lake Superior, totaling 45,000 cords. The Bethlehem freighter, MARYLAND (ex Arthur E. Newbold, ex James Corrigan, 1908) has been floated from the beach near Marquette and taken to Superior Shipyards for survey of damage. Con- flicting data states she will be repaired, and on the other hand that the damage is so great as to render rebuild unprofitable. The AMAZON has been laid up, and may be scrapped. The five old freighters owned by the Maritime Commission, which Cleveland Cliffs have been operating for some years, were returned to the Government as of October 1, to be sold for scrap. (Editor's note: In a future issue of the "Marine Historian" we will describe these ships in our feature column, "Ships That Never Die".) The Interlake freighter YOUNGSTOWN (ex H. H. Porter), is at the yard of the Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding Co. for installation of new tank top and side tanks. HARRY W. CROFT (ex Fred G. Hartwell) of the same fleet is getting new boilers at the Christy yard, also in Sturgeon Bay. E. A. S. CLARKE (ex H. P. Bope) is at Lorain to receive a new crankshaft, while C. H. McCULLOUGH, JR. (ex Ward Ames) will be repowered there. Word from across the Atlantic tells of the recent purchase by British shipbreakers of the Finnish freighter, KURRIKA (ex P. E. CROWLEY, ex BUFFALO, 1899), once the pride of the Western Transit Co's fleet of fast package freighters. (See DMH, vol. 2, no. 8), and of the Costa Rican freighter, OLGA (ex Sundervig, ex Constancia, ex Genevieve Lykes, ex LAKE GADSDEN), built at Manitowoc: in 1918. Dieselization of the Great Lakes Towing Co's tug, SUPERIOR (ex Richard Fitzgerald) has been completed. wa w ins and a 1200 h.p. diesel engine. She be seen when at her station near the W. HHH HHH EH PITTSBURGH Before continuing with our FLEET Cont. Steamship Company, we wish in the last issue. The E. purchased by Pittsburgh from Hawgood in the freighter, GEORGE G. CRAWFORD, were 585 x 60. Co., February, 1901. Sold, 1926. Included in the job are new cab- is now stationed at Detroit, and may Jefferson S$ eee eH eH 4 eee HK list of the ships of the Pittsburgh to correct an error and an omission C. COLLINS (ex EDWIN F. HOLMES) was 1916, not 1912. The dimensions of \ omitted by oversight. They are Continuing, then, where we left off last time: ALVA C. DINKEY, built for the fleet, 1909, Lorain JAMES B. EADS, (ex GLOBE), 1893 Cleveland, 6 dimensions 580 x 58. 00 x 43. From Bessemer Steamship (Continued, next page