The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

BULLHORN Chicago, Duluth and Georgian Bay Transit Co. has announced plans to liquidate, so it appears that the Lakes will be with- out cruise service this summer. Observed at Nassau in mid-January; BULK GOLD (a. GRAINMOTOR) in lay-up and TRUE GOLD (a. GLENROSS; b. BATTLEFORD) active in the package freight trade between the Bahamas and Jacksonville, Florida. PERE NOUVEL (a. VACATIONLAND: b. JACK DALTON) arrived safely at Vancouver,B.C. in June. She was renamed SUNSHINE COAST QUEEN rather than WESTERN QUEEN as re- ported in the August Log. AVONDALE received the final load of coal from Ashtabula's old N.Y.C. Coal Dock on Dec. 2. The dock is now being torn down to make way for new facilities. According to the Wall Street Journal the tug FRANCIS SMALL was arrested at an un- disclosed East Coast port on Dec.13 upon complaint of the Marine Midland Bank of Western New York, holder of a $1,180,000 mortgage on the tug. SHIPYARD SHAVINGS Just as U. S. Lake shipyards show signs of coming out of their lone slum. the yards onthe Canadian side are fearful that their lone boom will end in lay of 1969 when the subsidy is lowered. Port Weller Dry Docks have already announced that 700 workers will be laid off this summer unless new orders are received. On December 28 Collingwood Shipyards laid the keel for HULL 191, a 730' bulker for Algoma Central Railway. + The Detroit Marine ‘Historian is pub- + + lished monthly in the U.S.A. by the + + Marine Historical Society of Detroit + Incorporated, a non-profit society. + Editor: President: + CURTIS HASELTINE EDWARD J. MORRIS + 13951 ra ee ae Alger + Detro t.Clair Shores, + ichipan 48223 ntightran 48080 + Pett tet sthe Loc. Ce ae SWAPS & SALES (e) Quebec and Ontario Trans. Co. has sold JOSEPH MEDILL PATTERSON (a. BATE COMEAU) to Shallow Draft Bulk Carriers, Ltd. of Nassau who have renamed her FXYUMA SOUND. She was refitted for saltwater service at Halifax and has now joined: her sister, MONTAGUE BAY (a. MANICOUAGAN; b. COL. ROBERT R. McCOFMICK) in moving bauxite out of limited depth Central American rivers to a deep water redistribution terminal. ANN ARBOR No.5, earlier turned in to the Maritime Commission, has heen sold to Bultema Dock and Dredge. The tug MUS- KEGON towed her from Frankfort to Manis- tee on Dec. 1. Her fate is uncertain. SCRAPS LAKETON (a. SAXONA), in use since Aug. of 1965 as a floating granary holdine feed at St. Johns, Newfoundland, for Hillcrest Turkey Farms, has been sold by Lundrigans Ltd. to Steel Factors, Ltd. who in t have sold her to Italian shipbreakers. She was scheduled to leave St. Johns be- hind the Italian tue KORAL on Dec. 29. A late but undetailed report says that she has sunk in the Atlantic. The Hyman Michaels Co. reportedly will scrap three veteran Lakers at the Ameri- can Lakehead. They are PRAVFY PIONEER (a. STEPHEN M. CLEMENT; b. UNITED STATES GYPSUM: c. JOHN J. BOLAND; d. NIAGARA MO- HAWK), SULLIVAN BROTHERS (a. JOSEPH WOOD) and GRORGE HINDMAN (a. WILLIAM D. CRAW. FORD; b. BARD TEWKSBURY). On Dec. 5, RENVOYLE (a. GLENLEDI) arrived at Ashtabula for scrapping by Acme. Dave Glick CONTRIBUTORS: D. Brace A. Kunz L. Cahile W. Luke A, Danpster P. Sherlock E. Goebel V. Stecker W. Harkins and...S. Blossom G. Hawthorn D. Skillings @ [MARCH MEETING...At 8 P.M., Sat., Mar. 2 Tilustrated talk by R. GORDON WENOT, O "Reflections of Sandusky Bay"