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Che Betroit Marine Historian MARINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DETROIT c Curtis Haseltine, Editor 13951 Faust, Detroit 23 Volume 12, No. 2 October, 1958 Oct. 15 has been set as the date for auction=- ing the cruise ship CANA- DIANA by the U.S. Marshal in Toledo. She will be sold whole or piecemeal. Wilson Merine Transit EDM S Hel ts) New neme in the vessel psssages is the B. W. DRUCKENMILLER (ex-SHE- NANGO), Boland & Cornelius bulk carrier. The Coast Guard hes charged the [UND FITZGERALD skipper of the carferry has sold the SMITH THOMP- ASHTABULA, sunk Sept. 18 SON to T. J. McCarthy to : at Ashtabule in collis- plece the HURLBUT SMITH, ion with the BEN MOREEL, also bought from Wilson with negligence. The but damaged shortly after- freighter was holed ab- ward, Wilson also sold ove the waterline. the ROBERT %. IRELAND for screp after she was dama- ged in @ grounding. Capt. James A. Milne, operating mansger for La Verendrye Line (ex-Keystone Trans- ports) is new cperating agent for Carryore Ltd. in Montreal, This Hanna-maneged company is building a 715-foot bulk carrier at Collingwood for delivery next April and another ordered for 1960, August saw 1,090 vessels transit the U.S. locks of the Seawey. Thus far, the only Americen-fleg passe- nger boats have been the NORTH and SOUTH AMERICAN. New gient of the lakes, Columbia Transportation's 729-footer EDMUND FITZGERALD, docked Sept. 26 at Tole- do with her first cargo, ore from Cirver Bey, Minn. Her upbound pas- sage through the Soo locks Sept. 23 was in company of two other giants, SCOTT MISENER and CLIFFS VICTORY. Detroit Times Photo Color schemes of lake lighthouses are being changed for better visi- bility. Many towers will look different next sea son. One of the largest vessels ever designed for ocean-Seaway-lekes bus-= iness, the AVERY C. ADAMS (of a Wil- son Canadian subsidiery) hes loaded bauxite in Dutch Guiana as her first major cergoe Rear Adm. Joseph A. Kerrins, for- merly of New Orleans, is new chief of the 9th Coast Guard District in Cleveland. Chesspeske & Ohio Reilwey's new coel-loading dock et Toledo, largest end fastest in the world, has gone into full-time operation. It is ca- pable of handling 6,000 tons of coal an hour from reilroed cars into ves= sels and will cut time coal boats spend in port, dumping two railroad cers simultaneouslye Stoddard White