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Khe LOG Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway Company will not resume shipment of iron ore out of the port of Two Harbors, Minn., this coming naviga- The reason given for discontinu- D.M. & I.R. ore tion season, ance is the general decline in tonnage in the last 10 years from 49 million to less than 15 million tons expected for 1963. Henceforth, the railroad will ship all ore out of its Duluth docks. As was reported in the July '62 Log, Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon, has a "Fort-class" pack- age freighter under construction for Canada Steamship Lines. The motorship will enter ser- vice during the 1963 navigation season as FORT ST. LOUIS. Upper Lakes Shipping, Ltd., has package freight operations and withdrawn perma- nently from service their 69-year-old JAMES B. EADS (a.GLOBE). The venerable laker may be broken up at Port Weller this summer, along with Upper Lakes' canallers JOHN S. PILLSBURY and SHIRLEY G. TAYLOR. Wyandotte Chemicals heve renamed their self- unloader CONNEAUT as WYANDOTTE ii. Fate of the firm's original WYANDOTYE, withdrawn from ser- vice at the end of the 1961 season and current- ly laid up at Wyandotte, remains uncertain. Canada Steamship Lines’ bulker PRESCOTT (a. WESTERN STAR, at Hamilton. as a crane barge. (a.HOWARD M. HANNA, JR. i, QUETTE) is Lauzon. McAllister Towing, Ltd., and Navigation, Ltd., McAllister-Pyke Salvage, Ltd. disbanded CSL's upper laker b.GLENSHEE, BARGE "A", the stripped-down hull of the former Paterson canaller LAWRENDOC i, has been acquired by Tank Truck Transport, Ltd., Point Edward. Quebec & Ontario Transportation's steamer HERON BAY (a.AGAWA, b.ROBERT P. DURHAM) has been acquired by Federal Commerce & Navigation she will salt storage barge at Sept Iles, Co., Ltd., Montreal. It is presumed be used as a as was reported in the Jan. '63 Log. Cadwell Marine Ltd's. tug GOOD NEWS (a.LEN- earlier acquired from APE, b.E.E.JOHNSON ii) Arthur Hill interests of Burlington in mid-Jan- vary, broke her winter moorings in heavy ice movements on the Niagara River five miles north The tug, now abandoned by her been moved in the ice a considerable of the falls. owners,has ii (a.METCALFE), sold to Marine Ltd., of Sorel,'in 1960, has been reduced to barge and renamed M.I.L. 4 Paasch Marine, of Erie, planning conversion of its carriers to enter serfice during the 1963 season. last fall purchased a surplus U.S.Army tug, now moored at units. EPH WOOD) will first conversion project at as yet undetermined b.GLENISLE) is being dismantled A portion of her hull may be used GODERICH c.MAR- reportedly awaiting demolition at and Pyke Salvage merged Dec. 21 to become package freighter FAIRMOUNT ndustries, Pa., is lengthening the Cleveland-based excursion boat GOODTIME II by 30 feet to length of Our member, master this coming season, his fourth season in 100 feet, this winter. Capt. John Vitatoe, will be her this capacity. Gartland Steamship Company is said to be three largest bulk unmanned barges, with the first to Gartland Savannah, Ga., to handle these barge Gartland's SULLIVAN BROTHERS ii (a.JOS- reportedly be involved in the shipyard. Scrapping of obsolete lakers continues at Ashtabula. The sandsucker ROCKWOOD (a.JESSE SPALDING, b.MOOREMACK, c.VINDAL, d. CCRDOVA, e. JAY A. PEARSON) and bulk carrier ADRIATIC are currently being dismantled there. The Ann Arbor carferry WABASH has returned to Lake Michigan service after extensive, four- month face-lifting at Manitowoc Shipbuilding. Included in the project was the raising of her entire cargo deck by 42 inches, installation of new oil-fired boilers and replacement of her two stacks with a single streamlined stack. The Ann Arbor road was recently acquired from the Wabash Railroad by Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad Company. The Corrs of Engineers derrick boat HURON is concluding a three-month project on the Pine River at St.Clair involving removal of the sun- ken wocden hulls of the steamers R.P.FITZGERALD and MAURICE B. GROVER. The former was built at betroit in 1887 to dimensions of 256 X 38 X 20; the latter completed at Cleveland the same year to dimensions of 272 X 41 X 21. The 1481-g.t. FITZGERALD and 2213-g.t. GROVER were withdrawn from service about 1930 and left to deteriorate on the Pine Hiver about a mile upstream from the St.Clair River. In her later years of ser= vice, the GROVE had been cut down to a barge. Scuba divers have discovered the wrecks of two more ill-fated lake vessels. Last October the scattered remains of the 256-foot JOHN B. LYON were located outside Conneaut Harbor. The Gilchrist-owned wooden-hulled ore carrier foun- dered in heavy weather on Sept. 11, 1900, nine years after her completion at Cleveland. The remains of what is believed the schooner JAMES F.JOY have been found off Ashtabula Harbor. She foundered in a storm, Oct. 23, 1887. Bill Luke CONTRIBUTORS: George Ayoub, Ottawa; Duff Brace, Ashtabula; Archie Brighton, Grosse Ile; Howard Hodges, St. Clair; Paul Sherlock, St.Catharines; Capt. J ohn Vitatoe, Cleveland, and John Vournakis, ‘