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GZ The LoG > BULLHORN Canada Steamship Lines' 4-month-old package freighter FORT WILLIAM cap sized and exploded at a Montreal dock Sent. 14. The 489-foot motor- ship rolled on her starboard side, causing 300 tons of powdered car- bide cargo to mix with water, form- ing an explosive gas which precipi- tated a heavy explosion and subse- quent fire. Five crewmen lost their lives. The newness of the boat and 35-foot depth of water at the dock would appear to suggest her salvage this fall. Medusa Portland Cement has altered plans for use of the former Inter- lake steamer AMASA STONE and Wilson steamer CHARLES Se HEBARD. The hulls, originally intended to be sunk end-to-end to house a conveyor system at Charlevoix, will be sunk as breakwaters. Their cabins have been stripped and the vessels will be filled with limestone to serve as harbor shelters. Medusa earlier purchased the hulls of CHEMBARGE #3 (aeCARTIERDOC) and IMPERIAL HAMIL- TON (a-eSARNOLITE, beIMPERIAL SARNIA i) as part of the original program. They are now for salee Interlake Steamship has delayed re- naming of their steamer WILLIAM Mc- LAUGHLAN to SAMUEL MATHER iiiii un- til fit-out next spring. SHIPYARD SHAVINGS McQueen Marine's new tug AMHERST- BURG was launched at Erieau Spril 3 Collingwood Shipyards launched their HULL 186, a 640-foot multi- diesel self-unloader for Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railways on Sept. 9. She will be christened ROY A. JODREY in November ceremon- ies. Canada Steamship Lines! diesel straight-decker, on order at Col- lingwood as HULL 182, will be named SIMCOE. This 730-footer will be in service sometime next svring. Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon, launched their HULL 655, a 730-foot diesel for Hall Coro. of Canada on Sept. 17. She has entered service as Beavercliffe Hall. SWAPS & SALES Scott Misener Steamships' LAKETON (a.SAXONA) has been acquired by Crosbie & Co., Ltd.,:for use as a grain storage unit at St.John's, Nfld. She passed down the Welland under her own power on Auge llo Fraser Shipyards has acquired the tug BUFFALO from American Steamship Coe, for use at their expanding Superior, Wise, facility. The tug had been based at Oswego. SCRAPS The. Hall Corporation canallers COALFAX and KEYSHEY (a.CLEARWATER beTRENORE) have been welded shut at Kingston, apparently headed for European breakers. The former's self-unloading rig has been removed Marine Salvage, Ltd's L.D.BRCWNING (asCORALIA, eTROY H. BROWNING i) was towed out of Port Colborne by the tug G.W.RCGERS to Stelco's Ham— ilton plant for dismantling the week of Auge 23. The former Browning steamer MICHAEL Ge BROWNING (asEDWIN N. OHL, -be MICHAEL GALLAGHER i) arrived at Genoa in tow of the German tug, ROBBENPLATE on Nove 20, 1964. The old Cliffs' steamer POWERAUX ROGER (aeE.L. WALLACE, beMARQUETTE) was delivered to breakers at Hamburg on March 4. Bill Luke John H. Bascom Duff Brace Arnold Dempster David T. Glick James M. Kidd Paul Sherlock John Vournakis William R. Wilson CONTRIBUTORS: ~ wo