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Zhe Pioneer Steamship Company stockholders in mid dune approved plans to liquidate the 62-year-old Of the firm's vessels, only four were fitted out this spring. To date, three of the company's steamers have been sold. Included in the group yet to be disposed of are the FRANK BILLINGS (a,CHAMPLAIN), GENE C. HUTCHINSON (a. WILLIAM C. MORELAND, b.SIR TREVOR DAWSON, c. HARLES L. HUTCHINSON i) and W. H. MCGEAN (a. STADACONA i). On the eve of the recent Canadian general el- Welland Canal was announced toll- concern, six ections, the free. Fees collected were placed in escrow un- til legislative action is completed. WASAC Waterways' ALGOMAH II (a.BAINBRIDGE) has entered charter service out of Lake Erie ports as ERIE QUEEN, Failure of Pittsburgh to fit out THOMAS W. LAMONT this spring strengthens speculation that the steamer may be slated for transfer to Brad- ley fleet and conversion to self-unloader. Columbia's J. R. SENSIBAR (a.FRANK C. BALL) has been fitted with the 182-foot unloading boom off the company's steamer SIERRA at Toledo. The charge came after SENSIBAR's 250-foot aluminum boom was damaged. The SIERRA has been perma= nently withdrawn from service. The Swiss salty NYON, frequent lakes visitor collision with the Date and place of the last season, sank following Indian freighter JALAZAD. incident are not known. The Contimantal Grain storage fleet of 13 ob- solete lakers at Buffalo has been sold to Marine Salvage, Ltd., Port Colborne. It is understood the vessels will be broken up at the Stelco plant at Hamilton, Ont. First of the group to move down the Welland Canal was the former Nich- olson-Universal steamer FRED L. HEWITT ii (a.SO- NOMA, b.DAVID S. TROXEL, c.SONOMA), towed down by Great Lakes Towing's AMERICA and LAURENCE C. TURNER on June 14. Scott Misener's yacht VENETIA, idle for some years at Port Colborne, has been sold to a Sar- nia yacht club. Abitibi Power and Paper Company, Ltd.'s 120- foot steam tug STRATHBOGIE (a.LAVAL) has been LOG acquired by A. B.McLean & Sons, Ltd., at the Ca- nadian Soo. Reports indicate the tug may be converted to diesel. Great Lakes Towing Company has discontinued tug service at the Soo. The handling of barges in the locks will henceforth be provided by A.B. McLean & Sons, Ltd. Port Weller Dry Docks, Ltd., was the scene of the christening on July 14 of the new 253-foot motorship SIR JOHN CROSBIE, completing for Cros- bie & Co., Ltd., St.John's, Nfld. It has been reported that petition has been filed in U.S.District Court for appointment of a receiver for Tomlinson Fleet Corp. Hall Corporation's 386-foot HALLFAX arrived Montreal June 19 Sydney, N.S. to Toronto on her initial trip fol- lowing completion by Wm. Hamilton & Co., Ltd., Port Glasgow, Scotland. Nipigon Transport Ltd.'s LAKE WINNIPEG (a. TABLE ROCK, b.NIVOSE) is scheduled for entry in- To be operated as self-unloader enroute from to lake service in September. a unit of the Carryore, Ltd. fleet, the 730-foo- ter was converted from a T-2 tanker in Scotland. Defoe Shipbuilding in late May completed the fourth and final guided missile destroyer under their $68 million Navy contract. The U.S.S.HOEL passed Detroit downbound on May 22, enroute to Boston Navy Yard for final inspection and formal commissioning. Hanna's THOMAS E. MILLSOP (a.WILLIAM C. ATWA- TER, b.E.J.KULAS i, c.BEN MOREELL i) sustained engine damage on lower Lake Huron in late Way. Repairs were effected at American Ship Building Comrany's Lorain yard, Mohawk Navigation's motorship CAPTAIN C. D. SECORD (a.CHARLES R. VANHISE, b.A.E.R.«SCHNEIDER, c.S.B.WAY i, d.J.M.OAG) returned to service in late June following major engine repairs at the Port Arthur shipyard. The vessel became dis- abled in Lake Superior last December in heavy weather when her crankshaft broke. After taking on a load of baled scrap at Cleveland and Ecorse, the former Interlake stea- mer JAMES C. WALLACE passed downbound through the Welland Canal on July 6 under her own power (Continued on Page Three)