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"The Collingwood Shipyards' HULL 172, a 730-foot- er building for Canadian General Electric, was launched on Sept. 20 as BLACK BAY. The vessel will next spring under Canada Steamship Lines' colors. Ford Motor Company has purchased Pioneer Steamship's W. H. MCGEAN (a.STADACONA i) prin- cipally for use in the coal run between Toledo and the Rouge. The 500-foot steamer will und- ergo bow strengthening for ice navigation prior to her entry into Ford service around Dec. 1. Ford's motorship HENRY FORD II will winter at the Fraser-Nelson shipyard, Superior, for bow strengthening and the installation of a bow thruster, the first straight-deck laker to be so equipped. Ford's entire fleet will be fit- ted with thrusters eventually to assist in nav- igating the River Rouge. Columbia Transportation's PIONEER CHALLENGER (a.NESHANIC, b.GULFOIL) and CLARENCE B. RANDALL have been renamed MIDDLETOWN and ASHLAND, res- pectively, for Columbia's prime customer, Armco Steel, which maintains mills at Middletown, 0., and Ashland, Ky. Nipigon Transport Ltd's. 730-foot LAKE WIN- NIPEG (a.TABLE ROCK, b.NIVOSE) cleared Sept Iles on Sept. 18 with 22,584 long tons of ore for Lake Erie delivery on her initial lake voy- age. Converted from a T2 tanker at Glasgow, Scotland, the carrier will be operated by Car- ryore, Ltd. This season has been of record-breaking cargoes, made the near-comyletion of connecting channel dred- ging and the host. of 730-footers in service. In the ore cargo category, Inland Steel's EDWARD L. RYERSON holds the new mark, having loaded 25,002 long tons at Allouez in early September for Indiana Harbor delivery. Scott Misener Steamship's BAYTON WIDLAR), earlier reported to have permanently withdrawn from service, may have escaped the shipbreakers. She is said to be under repair at Sorel. Another Canadian laker, also earlier report- edly through, has been reactivated for service this fall. She is Mohawk Navigation's SIR THO- MAS SHAUGHNESSY. Steamship's slated to be scrapped. enter service notable for the number possible by (a. FRANCIS ore-carrier In active Buckeye venerable PRINCETON is LOG service most of last season, her demise will mark the end of the well known "college" class of bulkers built for the Carnegie fleet of the Pittsburgh Steamship Company at the turn of the century. On Sept. 19 Defoe Shipbuilding laid the keel for the first of two guided-missile destroyers for the Navy for re-sale to Australia. They will be similar in armament and equipment to the four DDGs which Defoe built under a $68 million contract for the U.S.Navy. The two for Australia will cost $29 million. Sand Products! cruise ship AQUARAMA (a.MAR- INE STAR) has entered the Manitowoc shipyard for repairs and survey. Indications are that she will replace the MILWAUKEE CLIPPER (a.JUNI- ATA) in the Muskegon-Milwaukee service for Wis consin & Michigan Steamship Co., the service for which she was originally converted. The stripped-down hulls of the canallers LAWRENDOC i and THORDOC (a.CASCO) were towed from Humberstone to Hamilton early in September to load fertilizer for Cardinal. The hulls are then to be converted to acid tanker barges at Quebec City. Bradley Transportation Line's self-unloader IRVING L. CLYMER (a.CARL D. BRADLEY i, b.JOHN G. MUNSON i) is for sale at Rogers City, accor- ding to an authoritative source. Scrapping operations o1 e former Misener canaller FRANK WILKINSON rena have been completed at Port Dalhousie. Esco Dredge and Fill Corporation, on a bid of $59,223, has won the contract to sink the former Pittsburgh Steamship carriers. WILLIAM EDENBORN and JAMES J. HILL off Gordon Park near Cleveland. The hulls will be used as breakwat- ers. The Canadian tugs SALVAGE MONARCH and JAMES BATTLE took the former Kinsman Transit steamer LABELLE down the Welland Canal on Sept. 19, en- route to Toronto to load scrap for Europe. Bill Luke Arnold Dempster, Collingwood; Paul Sherlock, St.Catharines; Kenneth E, Smith, Detroit, and C. W. Tully, Thorold. CONTRIBUTORS: LATE FLASH ~ Ford will rename the \/.H.io (see 2nd parazraph above) {OBERT 3. 1.CNAaMAl hononine Defense Secretary who was formerly Ford's president. w