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Khe LOG The Canadian Government has announced plans to twin the five single locks on the Welland Canal and to construct two locks in the Seaway near Vornwall to make that waterway a fully Canadianaamed op=- eration. The Welland p roject, to cost an estimated $180,000 7000, will be started next year and be complete: by 1968, with the Seaway work to follow. luron Cement's venerable steamer SAM- UEL ANITOHELL is in standby readiness at the foot of Lycaste on Detroit's east side in the event ney services are needed later this season Cleveland c1igrst steamer GRAND I (a.EUGENE ZIMMERMAN), JOLIET i HERBERT F. BLACK) and MARQUETTE (a.E.L.WALLACE) escape the scrap pile at Hamilton. Late word has this trio possibly moving into East Coast hands for use as gra storage units. Gartland steaacbinis RALPH S. CAULKINS (a.J. M. JENKS, b.R.R. RICHARDSON) may see similar use. e Browning Linest SPARKMAN D. FOSTER (a. HOOVER & MASON, b.E.M.YOUNG, c.COLONEL E. YOUNG) was Scheduled to load scrap at Saginaw in_ mid-August. She has been ac- quired by Italian interests for dismant- ling at G e nother unit of the Continental Grain storage fleet at Buffalo, the steamer GEORGE SON, moved soar the Welland Canal on July 12 in tow of the Great Lakes Towing Company tugs NORTH CAROLINA and LAURENCE C. TURNER ie will be bro- ken up at Stelco's aD plant. Gartland Steamship has chartered Han- na's steamer EMORY L Sie for the bal- ance of this season nd a NM. poet con oer sons Ltd's, twin 315- foot package ighters nearing complet- ion at Daviesh: aes jason, hea be chris- tened HAMILDOC and KINGDOC e Canada Steamship Lines have added two n maiden voyage. The Lauzon-built package eee tenten FORT ST.LOUIS, was upbound at Detroit on Aug. 6 on her initial trip. Upper Lakes' newly-acquired steamer RIDGETOWN locked down at the Soo on Aug. 5e be is the former Pittsburgher TILE AM E. COREY. MCNAMA~ entered Ford Motor cospany! s ROBERT S. RA (a.STADACONA i, b.W.H.MCGEAN) ° ° the Fraser-Nelson shipyard at Superior in further bow strengthening and other alterations. She will not be back in her Toledo-Dearborn coal run un- til late fall. ° Kinsman Transit Company, of Cleveland, has become Kinsman Marine Transit Company under a corporate switch which was effec- ted in July. The five Kinsman lakers were eetualie) sold to the new concern, ° The tug WILLIAM A, WHITNEY, idle for five years at Cleveland, was sold in July to Zenith Dredge Company, of Duluth, by Merritt-Chapman & Scott. The tug may be repowered at the Fraser-Nelson shipyard and replace the new owner's tug ESSAYONS, The former Hall Corporation tanker WAVE TRANSPORT (a. Ee) is under- rt g a wo ® ee] bean service. anker was earlier re- ported purchased cee Italien interests. Tomlinson Fleet Conperatienta ee E. DAVIDSON has been acquired by Marine vage, Ltd., Port Colborne. She is eigead to move from Buffalo to Cleveland for a scrap cargo which, presumably, signals another laker's long tow to a European shipbreaker. The former (eaten Shi peut aane gas pany Buffalo-based derr ie k boat which sank there six years ago waa: ieee ing dismantled, was paieedl in mid-July by the Corps of Engineers. The 600-ton pina may be put back into service by Corps e On July 20, off the town of Petite Ri- wera St.Francois on the St.Lawrence, the 2,714-gross-ton British-owned bulk ae rier TRITONICA collided with the 6,0 ton Irish-owned cargo freighter ROONAGH HEAD, the former vessel sinking soon af- ter impact, with the loss of 22 lives. e American Steamship's EDMUND P. SMITH Mee Boon ea KOPP, b.G.N.WILSON, c.CONSUM- a, HARRY YAT ES i cae has been Pati pecs Wada ntling. Further details are not available at this time. Bill Luke CONTRIBUTORS: George Ayoul ub , Arnold eb baa Weeilineweea Paul Sherlock, St.Catharines John Vournakis, American Soo °° Editor, Curtis Haseltine, 13951 Bara pevrotg 23, Meponala, 242303 Vicksburg, Detroit 6, ich.; Assocd ley and pels rer date Ed: toe aan tae eda 83 tunberview, Toronto 9, THE DETROIT MARINE HISTORIAN is published monthly by The Marine Historical Society of Detroit,Inc Hien, Associate Editor-litstorical, Williga & late Editor-current, Willian J. Luke,’1323 North 8 oe sena: Bascom, 100 Whit thal, Toronto 5,