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XS Whe LoG Cc Bethlehem Steel's 600-foot steamer DANIEL J. MORRELL broke in two and sank in 200 feet of water some 26 miles north of Harbor Beach, Mich. in severe weather at approximately 2:30 aem.e, Nove 29, taking all but one of her 29 crewmen to their deaths. So sudden was the hull rupture that no distress call was transmitted from the carrier, in ballast from Lackawanna, N.Y., to Taconite Harbor on her last sche- duled trip of the season. No hint of her fate was known until about 12:30 peme, Nove 30, when Silloc, Ltd's steamer. G.G.POST picked up a body clad in a Morrell lifejacket. The lone survivor, deckwatch Den- nis Hale, of Ashtabula, was taken off the MORRELL's forward liferaft by helicopter 36 hours after she went down. So far all but seven of the steamer's crew have been found. The MORRELL's last known contact was with her sistership, Bethle- hem's EDWARD Y. TOWNSEND, at 12:25 aem.e on the 29%. The TOWNSEND,also upbound in the same area at the time of the disaster, was found to have suffered a cracked plate and has been moored at the Soo where Coast Guard officials declared her unseaworthy. The MORRELL and TOWNSEND were a— mong the earliest 600 footers to be built on the Lakes. The former was built by West Pay City Ship- building.-Co.,“in 1906 for “Cambria Steel Company's Cambria Steamship Co. She became part of the Bethle- hem fleet in 1925 and was repower- ed with a 3,200-hp Skinner Uniflow engine in 1956. 20 The 470-foot ‘iest German motorship NCRDMEER, upbound in Lake Huron with a cargo of coiled steel for Chicago, went hard aground on Thunder Bay Shoal off Alpena Nove 19. Salvage efforts, begun by Mc- cueen Marine, Ltd., were suspended Nove 23 when it was determined the damage was too extensive. On Nov. 29 a Coast Guard helicopter re- moved the last eight crewmen from the 12-year-old salty shortly be- fore she broke in two in heavy weather. The Chesapeake and Ohio carferry CITY OF MIDLAND 41 grounded off the Ludington piers Nov. 27 ina blow, stranding 128 passengers and 56 crewmen for four days until Roen's tug JOHN PURVES pulled her off. The steamer resumed service immediately, apparently none the worse for her experiences Shortly after the grounding, ballast tanks were flooded to hold the steamer on until the storm subsided. Our member, Capte Henry Gates, com— mands the ferry. Hall Corporation's self-unloader STONEFAX was raised in the Welland Canal Nov. 27 after a cofferdam was placed in the torn hull sec- tion. The steamer's cargo of pot— ash had dissolved by the time she was brought up. Drydocking was ef- feeted at Port Weller: .'Dry socks, Ltd. (See Nov. '66 Historian) Hindman's steamer HELEN EVANS (a. JAMES LAUGHLIN) will be repowered at Owen Sound this winter, using a 2,500-shp Liberty ship engine. Her boilers will be converted for oil- burning during the layup. Penn-Dixie JOHN L.A. b.WESTOIL, Cement Corp's steamer GALSTER (a.KAMINISTIQUIA CeJeBeJCEN i) has been laid up at Petoskey and placed in stand-by. Her owners will contract with Medusa Portland Cement Co., next year for space in the a CHALLENGER (a.WILLIAM P. SN ss bsELTON HOYT II 1, ¢G.ALEX D. aoe HOLM) presently being convered for the cement trade at Manitowoc Shipbuilding, Inc. Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon, laun- ched HULL 654, CSL's 730-footer RICHELIEU, Nove 25. Davie's HULL 653, a 370-foot tanker building for Hall Corp., will be christened JAMES TRANSPORT. Fraser Shipyards, Superior, completed Bulk Navigation and has Tow- y ww #)