Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Detroit Marine Historian, v. 19, n. 7 (March 1966), p. 3

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The former Fjell-Fjord passenger- cargo liner PRINSES IRENE has been sold to Djakarta Lloyd, of Indonesia, and renamed TJUT NJAK DHIEN. Johnstone Shipping's LAKE TRANS- PORT (aeREDHEAD, b.eBLUE CROSS) has been chartered to a consort- ium of Canadian oil companies for use at Montreal as a bunker fuel unit. She will be renamed CONGAR. SCRAPS Ports in Spain have been reported as final points of destination for dismantling three former lak- erse The tankers IMPERIAL SIMCOE (aeSIMCOLITE) and IMPERIAL WEL- LAND (aseROYALITE) arrived in tan- dem tow at Santander Oct. 13. The FEDERAL HUSKY (aeAGAWA, b.ROBERT P. DURHAM, ceHERON BAY i) put in at Bilbao with ocean tug Nove 26.6 United Metals and Refiners, Ltd., Hamilton, are presently dismant- ling the former Midlake Steamship Line's canaller WALLACEBURG (a. JOHN J. RAMMACHER) which ran last season. At the same site awaiting the torch are the canaller WHEA- TON (aeWESTCLIFFE HALL i) earlier reported for breakup at Stelco, Hamilton, and the tug SOGENADA. United Metals have been confirmed as dismantler of the last two whaleback barges, ALEXANDER HOL- LEY and 137 (See Jan. '66 Kog) A portion of the unloading system off CSL's GLENELG is being in- stalled in that fleet's METIS at Kingston this winter, heralding her impending scrappinge The former CSL package-freighter WEYBURN which left freshwater in 1963 and was the subject of a feature story in the October, '64 Historian, relating her eventful voyage to Pakistan, is to be dis- mantled at Karachi by Mohamadi Re-Rolling Mills, Ltd. She has laid idle at Chittagong, Pakistan since her arrival there in 1964. PERILS OF THE DEEP Marine Industries, Ltd., will raise Sorel, Hall Corporation's 730' LAWRENCECLIFFE HALL ii this spring. By late January her cargo of ore had been removed and a cofferdam has now been built to protect the capsized motorship from ice damage. Foundation Mari- time, Ltd., has reportedly bought salvage rights on the 730' steam- er LEECLIFFE HALL (See Dec.'65Log CORRECTIONS: Reference - Dece '65 Log = Scott Misener Steamship's MERTON E. FARR was drydocked at Port Arthur late last season for inspection and returned to Port Colborne where she is undergoing renova-= tion and conversion to oil-fired boilers this winter. She may be renamed J.S.WALTON ii this ‘spring. Reference - Jane '66 Log — Davie Shipbuilding's HULL 656, complet— ing for N.M.Paterson & Son, Ltd., will be the second unit to bear the name LABRADOC, not third as was indicated. Reference - Feb. '65 Log — HARRY E. EWIG should read HARRY T. EWIG Bill Luke Contributors: D. Gordon Brace We Russell Brown Capte A.sC.Frederickson Capt. Geoffrey Hawthorn James Me. Kidd Richard J. Wright Late Flash! Dunbar & Sullivan have bought out the entire Great Lakes op- eration of Merritt-Chapman & Scott which will become the marine construction division with headquarters remaining in Cleveland and the Uhicago sta- tion of M-C & S continuing un- der the name Fitz-Simons and Connell Dredge and Dock Co. Dunbar & Sullivan, the oldest dredging and marine construct- ion firm on the lakes, was formed in 1844. M-C & S* began lakes operations in 1860,

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