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9 SCRAPS lgoma Central's steamer ALGOSOO (ae ATURN i, be J. FRATER TAYLOR) locked ownbound with grain in the Welland on ece 4 for Sorel. She will be broken > at a European yard next season.(See aips-That-Never-Die this issue). SWAPS & SALES 1 Jane 18 Wyandotte Chemical announc- 1 the sale of their steamers HURON ad WYANDOTTE ii (asCONNEAUT) to Col- abia Transportation, bringing an end > the Wyandotte fleet. The steamer »sPENA was sold to Erie Sand Steamship 1 December. Columbia will haul coke id limestone for Wyandotte Chemical ider a 10-year contracte ie U.S.Maritime Commission has recei- 2d application from Wilson Marine transit Coe, to sell its steamer LYMAN » SMITH to Hindman Transportation, ven Sound. wusa Portland Cement has acquired iterlake Steamship's steamer ALEX D. TISHOLM (aeWILLIAM P. SNYDER, beELTON X2YT 2nd i) for conversion to cement irrier. The 550-footer will be equip- 2d with unloading equipment encom— assing a boom which will discharge argo directly into a shoreside hopper : Medusa's storage facilities at Mil- aukee, Manitowoc and Detroit.Medusa's 1arlevoix plant will be the wessel's yading site. Other alterations plan- 2d for the CHISHOLM, which will be named, include conversion to oil- ired boilers with automated controls id installation of bowthruster. This ajor conversion program is scheduled 2%” completion by June, 1967, at a 2t-to-be-selected shipyard. The CHIS- XM has laid idle at Erie the past 70 seasonse Medusa officials indicat- i that a second carrier would be re- ilired when anticipated expansion of 1e Charlevoix plant is completed some sars hencée 4 PERILS OF THE DEEP »BeMcLean & Sons Coe, Ltd's tug MISE- RD and gravel barge CHARLES W. JOHN— SON (a-IOCOLITE, bs IMPERIAL KINGSTON) were driven ashore off Cedar Point in the upper St.Marys River in bad weath- er Nove 3. The tug sank in shallow wa- ter, resting on her starboard side. Both units were returned to McLean's base at the Canadian Soo for repairse On Oct. 29 Bultema's tug ROY R. LOVE was moving southbound toward Frankfort with two barges in tow when heavy weather caused one of the tows, meas— uring 170' x 50', to break loose and founder off Cathead Point. The second barge struck the breakwater at Frank- fort and sank. This unit may be raised this spring. Both barges were fashion- ed from the hull of the former Columb- ia Transportation steamer HARRY E. EWIG (a.W.W.BROWN, b.BALTIC, c.JOHN W. AILES) acquired by Bultema Dock and Dredge Co., Manistee, in 1963. Bill Luke CONTRIBUTORS: Capte A. C. Frederickson Be. De Garrett Capt. Geoffrey Hawthorn J. Albin Jackman R. Warren McNab Francis P. Strong John Vournakis