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CXS The LoG SS BULLHORN The Seaway closed Dec. 16 with the westbound passage of Bayswater Ship- ping's self-unloader BAYFAIR (ae COALHAVEN). The Welland Canal closed the following day with upbound pas— sage of Hall Corp's tanker GULF TRANSPORT (a.eBRITAMOCO). CSL's SIR JAMES DUNN was the final Soo passage when she locked down on Dec. 18. The last salty to clear the Seaway was the Norwegian tanker ANINA with her Dec. 7 departure at the St. Lam- bert Lock at Montreal. Only one salty remains in the lakes this win- ter, the PROTOSTATIS, a Greek-flag Liberty. She grounded Sept. 29 near Kingston and was lightered. On Nov. 16, in tow of three tugs, she again grounded, 16 miles east of Kingston. She was abandoned by her master and has been seized by the Department of Transporte She had loaded cargo at Detroit for Italy. Hall Corpts 730' LAWRENCECLIFFE HALL ii will be righted and repaired next seasone She capsized in 30 feet of water near the Isle of Orleans, some 20 miles below Quebec City, follow- ing collision with the British-flag SUNEK on Nove 166 Interlake Steamship and Bethlehem Steel have swapped sisterships. In- volved are Interlake's FRANK PURNELL and Bethlehem's STEELTON (a.PILOT KNOB ii), both built by Great Lakes Engineering Works for the Maritime Commission in 1943. The carriers will enter service next season with swapped names. Interlake's STEELTON will be converted this winter toa self-unloader in a $3 million pro- ject at American Ship Building's Toledo yard. This conversion will reduce her capacity from 15,700 to 14,200 tons when she re-enters ser- vice next July as FRANK PURNELL ii. She will be Interlake's first self- unloader. It is the writer's belief this is the first instance in Great Lakes history where two sisterships have been exchanged by two companies with the vessels so renamede SHIPYARD SHAVINGS Collingwood Shipyards was awarded a $2 million contract Dec. 10 to build a 167" sounding vessel for the De- partment of Transporte Presumably to be designated the yard's HULL 183, the twin-screw motorship will be laid down in March. She will replace DOT's FRONTENAC in St.Lawrence River service. Port Weller Dry Docks, Ltd., have secured an order from the DOT to build a twin-screw diesel-electric lighthouse tender for May, 1967, delivery. Canadian Vickers, Montreal, was the site of the joining of bow and stern sections of Hall Corp's 730" MAPLE- CLIFFE HALL late in November. The 250' bow section was built at Vick- ers' Lauzon yarde N.M.Paterson & Sons, Ltd's twin 315! diesel package freighters were launched at Davie Shipbuilding, Lau: zon, Nove 24. Designated HULLS 656” they will be christened LABRADOC iii and PRINDOC iii res- pectively in May ceremonies. Davieship's HULL 650, a 730° multi- diesel self-unloader for CSL, will be christened MANITOULIN. Her keel was laid June 18. She is scheduled to be launched in April with deli- very in June. Meanwhile, CSL has ded Davie th contract to build a 730' single diesel, straight deck bulk carrier for April, 1967, delivery. She has been designated HULL 654.6 The U.S.Navy tanker PASSUMPSIC pass-— ed downbound through the Welland Canal under her own power Nov. 23, following lengthening at American Shipbuilding's Lorain yard. Defoe Shipbuilding have completed their HULL 436, the guided-missile destroyer H.M.eA.S. HOBART for thi, Australian Navy. She passed down at Detroit Nov. 23, enroute to Boston Navy Yard for final inspection and commissioning.