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The L0G TOLLS will be re-instituted on the Wel- land Canal at the outset of the 1964 nav- igation season on the basis of two cents per vessel's gross tonnage plus two cents for every ton of bulk cargo and five cents for every ton of general Tolls on the St. Lawrence River Seaway section are four cents, 40 cents and 90 cents respéctively. Welland tolls were suspended July 18, 1962. STRAITS ferry CHIEF sian has been giv- en a temporary reprieve. Her owners will operate her until May 24 under reduced boiler pressure. 0 SEAWAY closed Dec. 13 with the cpeebound transit of Hall i ‘AG: passage of Canada subieshipe Lines' COVER- e TWO more American. steamers will be equip- ped with bowthrusters over the winter layup. Interlakes' ROBERT HOBSON will get a thruster at the Fraser-Nelson yard Superior, while Huron Cement's S.T. C b will be.so equipped at G. & W. Welding, Cleveland. e NEW owners of ie former CSL package steamer WEYBURN, which left freshwater in November, are listed as Maryland Interna- tional, S.A., Panama. Maryland Shipbuil- "Baltimore, is agent for the new CONSTRUCTION activities on the the Soo will resume at new lock bulk carriers. ° CHRISTY Corporation, Sturgeon Bay, is low bidder at $5,506,919 on a Navy AGS-26 class survey ves sel. The yard launched the Alaskan ferry TUSTUMENA Dec. the e TWO Ea tesouen Steamship Division steam ers, idle e 1960, will re-enter ser- vice next season in new poalors HENRY C. FRICK has peers sold to Algoma Central & Hudson Bay way Company, while her sister, GEORGE i PERKINS, is said to be slated for use in Upper takes Shippings' fleet size of breat Lakes e HINDMAN Transportation Company, Ltd., has acquired Interlakes' steamer HARVEY H. BROWN (a.HARRY A. BERWIND ering nee vage, Ltd., Port Colborn purchas Interlakes' FAYETTE BROW es CHARLES HUTCHINSON i) for undisclosed purposes. IT DEVELOPS that the former Hanna _ steam ers CARLE C.CONWAY (a.WILLIAM A. HAWGOOD, b.R. L. AGASSIZ) and EDMUND W. MUDGE (at QUINCY A. SHAW) never were owned by Sam i scrap, dealer. of Cleveland, who subsequently resold the pair to Western Iron and Metal Company, Fort William. The CONWAY is being dis- mantled at the Fort William Coal. Dock on the Mission River.(See Sept. & Nov.Logs). UPPER Lakes Shipping, Ltd.,will construct another self- untoaden at Port Weller Dry Docks, © be similar to the 680', at ieesuieetace Beedned now on the ways at Port Weller, the second unit will be -con- structed to maximum Seaway dimensions of 730! Xe 75" Both units wi be used principatly in the coal trade between jova Scotia and Toronto. e ONE saltwater-bound steamer did not make the Seaway closing deadline. The former Texaco lake tanker TEXACO NICHTGAN (a. HORACE S. WILKINSON i, b.BELGIUM, c.MICH- IGAN), renamed TRINA by her new owners, Lakes and Ocean Transportation Company was enroute from the Lakehead to Vonttent with corn, thence to Jackson, Miss. She is wintering, instéad, at Kingston. O SCRAPPING operations are underway on the steamer MALIETOA at Ashtabula and canal- ler WELLANDOC (a.EDWARD L. STRONG, b. SHERBROOKE, c.AROSA, d.IDA 0.) at Port Dalhousie. e LEADALE Shipping, Ltd., a Reoch-operated fleet, has acquired Boland & Cornelius’ self-unloader DOW CHEMICAL ii (a.LOUIS R. DAVIDSON, b.DIAMOND ALKALI i) and will rename her FERNDALE in the spring. O « & I's railroad carferry WABASH has tee renamed CITY OF GREEN BAY. e TWO of the 16 maritime-class lakers of gue. EOE) Semper gion. Steamship's 621! RICHARD Me TREISS di will be converted at Manitowoc and equipped with bowthruster, re-entering service in mid-season 1964. Boco have acquired the Buckeye steamer JOHN T. HUTCHINSON and will convert her at Fraser-Nelson Ship- building in a $2,000,000 project. Bill Luke CONTRIBUTORS: George Ayoub, Ottawa SORE Wearnanday American Soo