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more package freighters for N. Me. Paterson & Sons, Ltd., were erro=- neous. (See LOG, Sept. '66) Kingston Shipyards are converting CSL*s self-unloader GLENEAGLES from coal to oil-fired boiler op- eration during this winter lay-up. Quebec & Ontario Transportation's affiliate, Comet Enterprises, Ltd. is making the same fuel conversion aboard their steamer HERON BAY ii (a.J.PIERPONT MORGAN) at Port Col- borne. In late December it was announced that negotiations between Upper Lakes Shipping, Ltd., and Ishika- wajima-Harima Heavy Industries, Tokyo, for the construction of a 24,000-dwt bulk carrier had been suspended. Collingwood Shipyards will build another 640-foot diesel-powered, self-unloader for Algoma Central and Hudson Bay Railway Co., simi- lar to' Roy A. JODREY. Designated HULL 189, the motorship is sche- duled to be delivered in spring of 1968. SWAPS & SALES On Jan. 4 Cleveland Tankers, Inc., bought the 345-foot motorship MARTHA E. ALLEN from National Mar- ine Service. Just prior to this transaction, Cleveland Tankers sold their steamer PLEIADES (a. FRANKLIN, b.eMAINE) to Charles Kurz Cos, of Philadelphia. The purchas- er will use the vessel for trade- in on surplus Maritime Administra- tion tonnage. Confirming earlier reports, Pick- ands-Mather late last season ac- quired the steamer WILLIAM P. SNY- DER JR. from Shenango Furnace Co. In late January it was announced that the same two concerns were negotiating for transfer of owner-— ship of the 710-foot steamer SHE- NANGO II. The steamer COL JAMES M. SCHOONMAKER, under charter to Wil- son Marine Transit the past two seasons, returns to Shenango oper-— ation this spring. Pickands-Mather has applied to the Maritime Administration for per- mission to sell their long-idle steamer HARRY W. CROFT (a.FRED G. HARTWELL i) to Canadian interests. Whether PM's Canadian affiliate, Labrador Steamships, Ltd.e, is in- volved was not indicated. SCRAPS A.B.McLean & Sons, Ltd's. 120-foot steam tug STRATHBOGIE (a.LAVAL) has been dismantled at the Canad- ian Soo. Scrapping of Reoch's 310-foot self-unloader VALLEYDALE (a.VALLEY CAMP) is reported underway at Ham— ilton. In early November, Hindman's barge MITSCHFIBRE (asMARCIA) was towed into Ashtabula for dismantling. Inoperative for some years, she was used principally as a grain storage unit at Owen Sound, in company with Mohawk Navigation's barge ALFRED KRUPP. In MITSCHFIBRE holds on arrival at Ashtabula were remains of Hindman tugs SULPHITE (a.eBALLEW) and LYNDA HINDMAN (a. WILLIAM A. MCGONAGLE i, b.MARGUER- ITE W., c.RUTH HINDMAN i) earlier dismantled at Goderich. The hull of the latter has been acquired by Siddall Fisheries, Goderich, for rebuild as a commercial fishing tug. The 52-year-old passenger steamer PELEE, sold by Pelee Island Ship- ping, St.Thomas, to Goderich Mar- ine Salvage, has been burned out and dismantled at Port Stanley in operations which began in November She was replaced in service in 1958 by the new PELEE ISLANDER and had laid idle at Port Stanley since that time. Pelee Island Shipping has announced plans for a new vessel of 500-passenger capa- city, to cost $1,750,000 and to be ready late this year or early next The PELEE ISLANDER will be trans- ferred to other service, possibly between Port Dover and Erie, when the new vessel is placed in ser- vice. Bill Luke