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CXS Whe LOG o> BULLHORN American Ship Building Co. has announced the purchase of the four-ship Buckeye Steamship Co. fleet which will be oper- ated as a subsidiary, retaining the fam- ous white "H" stack marking. American will also buy the assets and vessels of the Kinsman Marine Transit if its stock- holders approve. U. S. Steel has announced that all of its boats on the Lakes will sport the same stack marking this season. It will be the familiar Pittsburgh stack, top third black and bottom two-thirds silver but there will be a silver circle in the black top with the letters "USS" in sil- ver inside. SCRAPS It now appears fairly certain that SCOIT MARK (a. WILLIAM H. DANIELS) was scrap- ped at the Canadian Lakehead last win- ter by Western Iron & Metal. The best lead we got on the mystery tug in last month's Historian comes from our old friend, Bill Prentice of Toronto: I think that the tug is WALES, There was a picture of her in the Huron Institute at Collingwood, which was, of course, burned in the fine of a ew years ago. Also Listed in Vol. 111 of the In- stitutes papers and records is the following, "Picture: 1855 first ele- vaton at Colkingwood. Tug WALES with Capt. Ben Tripp about _ on 1857." I do not remember this dis- tinctky, but when it first appeared dn the ENTERPRISE BULLETIN, 1 {elt dune that it was WALES. She had been built for service a- round Kingston but drew too much water s0 was sent to the upper Lakes. She must have been deep seen an the pieture you can nig through the cabin over both * the en- gine and boiler space. SWAPS & SALES The Canadian sandsucker NIAGARA (a. RID- EAULITE; b. IMPERIAL LACHINE) has been sold by Holden Sand and Gravel Ltd. to McNamara Marine Ltd. It has been reported that ownership of Canada Steamship's self-unloader R. 0. PETMAN (a. E. B. OSLER; b. OSLER) has been transferred to Hamilton's United Metals. Her fate is uncertain. SHIPYARD SHAVINGS Pennsylvania's Governor, Raymond P. Sha- fer, will break the ground for Litton Industries' Erie Marine Division's new shipyard at the foot of Holland Street, Erie, on March 12. Imperial Oil Ltd. has ordered a $7 mil- lion tanker for delivery from Davie at Lauzon in the spring of 1969. First re- ports indicate she will be for saltwater service. Dave Glick PRO barges ee i Muskoka Mikes r Tsanth. of Buffalo. Because of her size, she could . get up the channel to the Mills but tied up at Whaken's Dock, closer the Bay. Wales Rock at Muskoka Mikls (now deserted) is nam- ed for her. If this identification is correct this must have been the tug WALES built at Brockville in 1864 rather than the steam barge WALES built at Sarnia in 1881, the same year the first WALES was dismantled. Does anyone else remember the picture in the Huron Institute? Can anyone come up with a picture of WALES so that we can make a comparison? Member Alfred H. Troy, 3351-A North 20th St., Milwaukee 53206, writes to tell us that he collects pictures of commercial fishing boats of the Lakes and especial- ly Lake Michigan and would be happy to hear from anyone with similar interests.