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The LOG MARINE Transit has shelved, at least tenperariy, plane to convert a second ore car= rier t: unmanned barge. Be studies ional inves Plans for ore reet on next season are uncertain, WILTRANCO I ‘8 been pushed by the McAllister NA. MCALLISTER this summer at speeds Reeseing 8 to 8} mph. MEANWHILE Gartland Steamship Company have evi- denced intentions to proceed with t! conver et on program. The firm on the East Coa tay Yedo or Chicago by mid-Septemb repowered with 4 ,000-hp diesel. She may be CEMENT'S Meteo AMUEL MIT- owed by JOHN PURVES She has re- there asa returned to steamer, S. tug BOARDMAN has active service. SCRAPFING operations at thes picascn elson shipyard at Superior, Wis., reduced the ‘ormer Pioneer bulk carrier’ FRAN BILLINGS (a. CHAPLAIN i) to her bottom plates. The ti BRITANNIA, former Detroit-Windsor ferry, re- mains intact at the yard, arta ca cena D. FOSTER ia HOOVER & MASON, iG, c.COLONEL E.M. fi nal r last trip, via La zon, to shipbreakers at Genoa, Italy. TWO PanILIAR Tomlinson steamers have been sold ine Salvage, of Port Colborne, for dis- mantling. The JAMES E. petri and BALL THERS were transferred will see the scrap to Genoa dem, The latter departed own power Aug. Indiana Harbor. at Hamilton, ont., by the Steel Company of Cae AMERICAN Steamship's EDMUND P. Rae plaesacde Py bGeNeWILSON, ¢. CONSUMERS Ap. as been acquired fee hari in turn, sold her for scrapping LURIA BROS., scrap dealers, have resold bulker MALIETOA ,to Soa Simon, of Ashtabula, for scrapping there, Sale price was $26,000, She was moved from Cleveland Aug. 21. pedis STEEL OEP has aosennees of two lak- the steamers CARLE C. CONWAY (a.WILLIAM . “talc , beReLeAGASSIZ) " and EDMUND \!. MUDGE (a-QUINCY A for oo ling. h have en acquire: am Sit for scrapping at Ashtabula, The conn is moored at Milwaukee; the MUDGE at Manit FURTHER sere ing news involves Reoch's WIL. LOWDALE (a.T: ITE, b.IMPERIAL MIDLAND) curs rently peeing broken’ up at Toronto. ‘the color- ful carrier saw service earlier Ares sete hse at Toronto under the torches are Paterson's canallers COTEAUDOC (a.DAMIA) and PRESCODOC (a.SIOUX) CONTINENTAL Grain, Buffalo, Cleveland ee steamers GRAND NE ZLWEER (ae HERBE for pieteed bere winter Aen port. The CAULKINS Wall reported]; Privo PRINCE. While unconfirmed reports indicate that all or part of thie sroup will move with scrap cargoes next summer to Italy, © be unloaded then moved to India to serve for grain storage a uN Shipping old the canaller W: Lake Superior service. not available. Further details are PORT WELLER Dy, Docks pave completed HULL 36, a small tug about ern long, foe MacFadden umber Co., of Sanger? Ont. She has been named C, E, TED SMITH. THE FORMER Hall Corp.tanker WAVE TRANSPORT (a. BRITAMOLENE Joleared Port Weller shipyard east ound as FLOR anian registry, a aos Decadis ‘concerning her saltwater US 6 career are not clear at this point. CHRISTY CORP., Sturgeon Bay, has a 120-foot fishing boat’under construction for Alaskan AT THE TIME of her sinking in the St.Lawrence in July, following collision, the salty TRITO- ICA was under Canada Steamship Lines' owner- thie through their Bermudian affiliate, Ocean ta= nium ore pellet run between Havre St. Pierre been replaced in that ser- Ma Ait C8L's neuly-conpleted; 730-foot MURRAY THE FORMER Beaconsfield careers parent WOOD and WILLIAM WARREN are rel for dismant. eines The BEDI FERN has been converted to a fish processing barge Bee service Newfoundland, her diesel ropulsion ‘unit. having been removed. IMPERIAL OIL'S second Port Weller-built bun- kering unit, IMPERIAL VERDUN (see front page), cleared there Aug. the ae CANALLER See cue ane Bae reported at anchor New Orleans. been awaiting di: spos= ition there since “Sines #1982. she’s last opera- ted in Lakes-Seaway service as a of Ahe: Shipping, of Montreal, Mnieheeceed operations last year. Bill Luke CONTRIBUTORS: George Ayoub, Paul Sherlock, ote Ca tharines John Vournakis, American Soo