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"he . W. Westcott Company began its 89th F of marine peporesne at Detroit on April 4th year for the Detroit of Transport fleet, heretofore designated as eee venne Ser- vice, has been renamed Canadian t Guard. A new fleet color scheme will give the vessels red hull with white superstructure. er yellow and black stack colors have been al- tered to white with red maple leaf and single red band. aeorice of Port Weller Dry Docks' lengthen- & O's CHICAGO TRIBUNE (a.THOROLD) aye een released. A new 61-fo eae taecesce has b: overall with deadweight tonnage increased Bees 3700 to 5000, Vessel was re-engined (900 to 1600 hp) at Port Weller in 1958. Valley Camp Coal's self-unloader VALLEY CANP' has been equipped with new stack this winter at Port er. Isbrandtsen Seeeaehin Company has obtained operating subsidy approval for its Great Lake trade. Former Interlake steamer ARCTURUS (a. res B. WOOD) terrae a eae Apa baes Jan. 11 a's Department position 46.10 N hile in tow o: cee uguese tug PRAIA GRANDE Shrouce’'to Norwegian shipbreakers. Position sinking is jus west os a of Biscay Form lisener canaller DAVID BARCLAY (a. sALEscutere HALL i) sold to Kingcome Navigat- on Co., Ltd., Vancouver, in September, 1959, an subsequently reduced to paree and renamed LOG TRANSPORTER, was lost while in tow off Cape Mudge, B.C., Oct. 25, 1961. Imper: fal oil's TMpeRiAl HAMILTON (a.SARNO- LITE, b. IMPERIAL SARNIA i) will not be fitted tor ervice for 1962 The enlarged Poe Leck at named in honor of Minnesota Rep. John A nik The former Great Lakes Transit Corp., pack- age freighter FRED W. SARGENT (a.DELAWARE, la- ter @.PAPUDS and d.RAULI) reportedly arrived Seville, Spain, Oct. 31,1961, for dismantling. was last operated by Navie: ri Chilena del the Soo mer be re- « Blat- ile. ASHLEY has been newly-acquired CHARL- ES L. HUTCHINSON iii wa: christened ERNEST R. BREECH at Detroit's Civie Center April 1l. Mohawk PAE seen cons tier F.V.MASSEY has hal been | sole ca | Shi pbrS Terainal!s COASTAL CAS- cADES. tas CHARPENTIER, b.VERNON, c.CEDARBAY,d. JOAN VIRGINIA) was scrapped during 1961, det— unknown Canadian ackeres Montreal, has secured an order from Canada's Department. of Transport to construct a $2, B60: 000 *icebreake t. Lawrence Seaway velopment Corp's tug Corps of Engineers surned over to the General stration for disposa Ha ecnomecinat s foot. tanker under eductnticn at ye Shipbuiading, peal was scheduled for nching April 12. Vesse. will be named ibsot TRANSPORT. Canada Steamship Lines' self-unloader COAL~ HAVEN has been sold to Bayswater Shipping, and renamed BAYFAIR, Service's ferry RANGER ii (a. has been sold to the University ef Michigan. Hechristened INLAND SEAS, he was refitted at Sturgeon Bay for the univer= ity's use in study of the Great Lakes. Yankeanuck Steanships is contemplating con- struction of a peeneshars YANKCANUCK ii ning of the Seaway was delayed more than week "Wien a) crack: veandlacovenedtiny ei1l/or Eisenhower Lock. Traffic resumed April 23. L0G Interlakers ADRIATIC and CRETE have been sold to Sam Simon's Inland Ship Salvage Com- pany, nereabales CRETE will be dismantled at Ashtabula. ADRIATIC has been, resold to New York City Sewe r undisclosed purposes. Creveland-Clifre’ “GRAND ISLAND” (ae? BUGENE ZIMMERMAN) a: nd MARQUETTE (a.E.L.WALLACE) have been put up sal e. Former NICHOLSON Transit craneship SONORA has been stripped of her cranes at Fairport by Columbia ieeneporve:son Company. She will towed to the Pinney Dock at Ashtabula soon fee dismantling by Hyman-Michaels Co. Former Buckeye barges MAGNA and MAIA hav. been cue ae have mer Nicholson steamers C. GEORGE 7 *RuSSELL} and CHARLES DONNELLY (a. TROY). November '61 LOG Seroneously: reported sane was to ape aorecs eo Deen scrape December '61 ltwate: cieebe. ker NEW ORLEANS ace E850 EW ORLEANS) might D converted for lake has proved incor: pects The steamer is aden rebuild on East Coast for further ocean servic: rowning Lines chartered Hanna's Est T. AON. (a.VENUS) which fall while being towed to oh peeeaeera has pnepored been sur- id freighter under construction at Port Weller will be christened SIR JOHN CROSEIE inclair Refining Company has awarded entrees Marine Division, Ingalls Works, Decatur, Ala., for conetruction ef 4000-ton twin- revere eankers To be diesel pro- vessel will be 330 X 50 X 22. ‘h Teabroaker bow, enabling op- eration out of Sinclair's Peer Chicago, Ind. refinery year around. Delivery is scheduled canadian 730-footer HAMILTONIAN, was aun ched at St.John, N.B., April 7 will be operated as a unit of Papachristidie! Eastern Lake Carriers, Ltd. Another E.L.C. unit, the 730" HONTREALAIS, was christened at Montreal on pri American Oi1 Company's (Standard Oi1-India~ na) tanker RED CROWN ha m renamed AMOC INDIANA. The company's remaining three ‘eke tankers will be similarly renamed, presumably reflecting firm's operations in Michigan, Ill- inois and Wisconsin Veteran sandsucker ALGONAC (a.SYRACUSE, b. LAKEWOOD, ¢K.V-SCHWARTZ) has been sold to De- troit Marine Disposal Company for conversion to a bar; Paterson's new 291' newsprint carrier DOC iii, cleared Collingwood shipyard Sprit, in enroute to the Lakehead on her mai voyage. Sistership LAWRENDOC ii, cleared same yard on begin lake trials. The Arthur Hill fleet, of Burlington, was sold at auction April 17. Ves: were tanker GOOD HOPE CAMPBELL, c.RIVERSHELL) Ont., and tugs GOOD WN sand OOD FORTUNE (a. b.LUCKENBACH NO. 4, V-EHUNT). While “names of d. THO! MAS J. SCULLEY, HANT, 4. GOTHAM, purchasers are yet unknown, is reported that GOOD FORTUNE and GOUD HOPE vyill be scrap- PVONDALE (a,STARWELL, b. Reech! JOHN A, FRANCE i) and WESTDALE (a.RALFH GTLe CHRIST, b.E.P. MUKPHY) are to be dismantled. Bill Luke CONTRIBUTORS: georee Ayoub, Ottawa; Duff Brace, Ashtabula; Al Bradley, Detroit; Howard Hodges, St.Clair; Jim K: St. eathas ings: a fe Toronto; Paul Sherlock, Frank’ Zuzek, Vournakis, Sault Ste. Marie, and ead t