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The The Moran Towing and Transportation Co., of New York, has received ICC ap- proval to engage in general freight service on the lakes, using barges, The company has chartered two 211! barges, STILIMAN and WALLACE, from Time, Inc., to haul paper from Buck- port, Me., to Chicago, Moran tenta- tively plans to buy these units and has a 231' barge on the drawing board, Nicholson Transit Co. has disposed of the remainder of its lake fleet, DONNELLY TROY), There is speculation that ISE- ONEER and SONORA may again op- erate. The cranes on SONORA have been sold to Columbia Transportation for replacement of steam cranes on one of that company's vessels, Nicholson's PERSEUS (a,FRANK J, HECKER), earlier reported sold to Hyman-Michsels, has been resold to Asienda Ricuperi Demol- izioni Martimi, S.P.A., Genoa, Ita ly for dismantling in that country. The final unit in the Nicholson fleet, the TRONWOOD HARLES BEATTY, b,USONA, pure’ chael Toth, of Toledo. With the pos- sible exceptions listed above, these units probably will find their way to the scrap pile. Moore-McCormack's new Sun-built cargo liner MORMACLAKE was moored at Detroit Harbor Terminals during the week of July 24, on her maiden voyage, Paterson's CANADOC ii passed up- bound through the Welland Canal July 24, marking her initial voyage follow- ing completion at the Davie yard, Lau- je £ Que, Last month's "Log" reported raising of the ofl barge CLEVECO off Cleve- land, The salvors, finding her tanks virtually empty, towed the barge up- side down further out in the lake and sank her in 72‘ to 75' of water, The April '61 "Log" reported that Verolme Cork Drydock, Ltd., of Cork, Eire, had a contract for a 14,000-g.t, laker, She is for Mohawk Navigation ZO Gr Company, Ltd. The turbine-driven steamer is scheduled for service in 1962 and will be built to 730' over- all, by 75' in breadth, Former Pioneer Steamship Co. bulk carrier WILLIAM A, PAINE, passed down through the Welland Canal on July 28, on her way to the shipbreakers. Site of dismantling is unknown at present, Oranje Line's second passenger= cargo liner, the MARGRIET, tied up at Detroit's waterfront on Aug. 1, enroute to Chicago on her maiden voyage. Collingwood Shipyards has received acontract for two 291' freighters for N. M, Paterson & Sons, Ltd, To be built with all cabins aft, the ves- sels will presumably enter the pack- age freight trade, Further details are WN. The steam tug BRITANNIA, the form er Detroit-Windsor ferry, has been sold at Duluth by T. J. McCarthy Steamship Co. to Duluth Iron and Met- al Co, for sarap. Idle since 1947, she was used during World War II in towing log rafts on Lake Superior, Pioneer Steamship's PIONEER CHAL- LENGER (a.NESHANIC, b,GULFOIL) enter- ed Fraser-Nelson's newly enlarged graving dock at Superior early in August after striking a submerged ob- ject off Buffalo, This marked the first time a Seaway-sized lake vessel had used the improved graving dock, The T2 tanker SWEETWATER cleared Baltimore July 26 in tow of the Pol- ish tug PRAI GRANDE enroute to LaSpe- zia, Italy, and presumably the ship- breakers there, An early Seaway vis- itor in 1999, she grounded near Bob- Io that season after striking bottom inside the Detroit River Light. She was raised and towed to the Rouge shipyard where she wiivered and last summer was towed to Bethlehem's Bal- timore yard, Bill Inke ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Al Bradley, Detroit; ald, Detroit.