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Zhe L.0G T. J. McCarthy Steamship Company will not put its fleet of auto carriers into service this season. approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission last year have dealt what may be the death knell to the De- troit-based company, Affected are the steam= ers .GEORGE H. INGALLS (a, WILLIAM L. BROWN), MATAAFA (a.PENNSYLVANIA), T.J-MCCARTHY (a.MARY C. ELPHICKE, b.MORRIS S. TREMAINE) and GEORCE W. MEAD (a.FRANCIS L. ROBBINS). Reduced rail rates Marinette Marine Corporation, Marinette, Wis., $4,256,560 contract by the Navy to build eight harbor tugs. The 109-foot tugs will be delivered at Boston between Feb- ruary, 1965, and October, 1966. has been awarded a ° The proposed merger of Reiss Steamship and the Tomlinson Fleet Corporation, announced earlier as pending, is off. O Providence Shipping Co., Ltd.'s, (Algoma) new- ly-acquired steamer HENRY C. FRICK will enter service this season as MICHIPICOTEN, ° Browning Lines' last steamer NORMAN W. FOY (a. SHELDON PARKS, b.EDWARD A. UHRIG, c.DAVID M. WEIR) has been sold to Marine Salvage, Ltd., Port Colborne, for undisclosed purpose. e Columbia Transportation's Joseph H. FRANTZ will be converted to self-unloader. Contract for conversion will be let this sum- The 600-footer has been idle since 1962 and is laid up at Superior. steamer mer. The Mpntreal-built bulk carrier ALEXANDER T. WOOD has been renamed LEADENHALL by her salt- water owners, Bury Court Shipping Co., Ltd., London. Papachristidis Company, Ltd., will place three more lakers in operation. vessels are slated to enter service during the 1965 navi- gation season, with the third scheduled for 1966. Construction contracts have not been let. Canada Steamship Lines said to be planning two additional bulk carriers, presum- ably of the 730-foot class. CSL's earlier plans to build another Forti-class package freighter have been shelved temporarily. Two are U. S. Steel's newly-acquired T2 tanker CHADD'S FORD (a.CHADD'S FORD, b.ESSO GREKNVILIE) has undergone conversion at Baltimore for service hauling semi-finished steel from the East Coast to the West Coast. Recently rechristen- ed COLUMBIA, she was originally to have been under Pittsburgh Fleet operation. She will not enter the lakes, for similar use by U. S. Steel and may be re- christened GENEVA, (See October '63 Log) A second unit is planned e The self-unloader BAYANNE (a.ARAGCN) floated in the Bay of Quinte near Belleville on Dec. 10, almost 4 year to the day after she P, E. Larose, of Williamsburg, undertook her salvage. was re- sank there after grounding. 1964 navigation in the lock and canal systems, weather Tentative opening dates for season permitting, are as follows: Welland Canal.....April 1 Two more Canadian vessels have been sold for ieee Soo Locks...+.+e.-April 13 dismantling, Paterson's PRINDOC (a.HAROLD B. * Seaway.cccccececceApril 15 NYE, b.W. D. CALVERLEY, JR.) and Hall's BAY TRANSPORT (a.BRITAMLUBE). Bill Luke e iB peraorr aanmae wrsrorzay fe Haseltine, 13931 Nedonada, 3303 Hiokabure,,Detro Maras Bifsinghan, 'Hdch- and, Canadien oh, Meas 83 Humbervie shed aonthl; Becrote 23, ‘Toronto 9, acetate ates Sohn ie Beton, 4 he Marine Historical Soctety of Detroit,Inc. aj, okagoctate Baitor-itetorteal, Willtén 4, or=Curr accu” 1222 Roreh 100 vide jehali, Tc as