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CG xD The LOG > BULLHORN Skindivers have found a large, center- board schooner on the Canadian side of the St. Clair River opposite the Port Huron Y.M.C.A. She is still loaded with railroad rails. Can any of our members help with her identity? R. E. DoVILLE is being rebuilt at Port Huron this winter. Now owned by Massey Marine Salvage & Construction Co. of Al- pena, she will return to the Detroit sand trade this spring as MASSEY D. Reports indicate that Bayswater Shipping Ltd. has gone out of business and that BAYFAIR and BAYGEORGE are for sale. The large saltwater ice breaker EASTWIND is scheduled to come to the Lakes just as soon as the Seaway is opened. She will break out Buffalo while the MACKIN- AW is busy on the upper Lakes. JOHN J. BOLAND recorded the first 1968 upbound passage at Detroit when she took coal to St. Clair on March 17. On March 22, J. A. W. IGLEHART went to Alpena for cement and on returning opened the port of Cleveland on March 26. Koppers Co. of Pittsburgh has acquired control of Erie Sand Steamship Co. ‘The fleet will continue under present man- agement. Reports indicate that the self-unloader ALPENA will soon be renamed SIDNEY E. SMITH, JR. Tomlinson's JAMES DAVIDSON will be char- tered to Columbia Transportation Div. this season while Columbia's J. CLARE MILLER remains on charter to Gartland. Steel Company of Canada has announced preliminary plans to construct a large steel mill and harbor on Lake Erie at Nanticoke, just east of Port Dover. PERILS OF THE DEEP The 60-ft. tug SEA HOUND and the hull of the veteran tug STRATHBOGIE have sunk in the ice at their Sault, Ontario, dock. The former motor vessel IRONWOOD, con- verted to a sand processing barge sever- al years ago, has sunk at a Toledo dock. It has now been learned that LAKETON (a. SAXONA) sank in the Atlantic at 39.42N by 30.36W on Jan. 13, while being towed to Vado, Italy, for scrapping. SCRAPS Mid-winter reports indicate that son ERICSSON is almost all gone at Hamilton, CONSTITUTION was going fast at Port Col- borne, and that SULLIVAN BROTHERS is un- der the torch at Duluth. A published report indicates wee the tanker DETROIT (a. SERVITOR; b. PULOE BRANI; c. B.B. MeCALL; d. A.J. PATMORE; e. PEGGY REINAUER) 48 scheduled to be scrapped in July. SHIPYARD SHAVINGS The new Imperial Oil tanker announced in last month's "Log" will be for saltwater service. She will be similar to IMPERI- AL ACADIA but larger. The 6th of 7 cutters being built by the American Ship Building Co. at Lorain, U.S.C.G.C. DEPENDABLE was launched on March 16. Meanwhile STEADFAST has been moved to AmShip's Toledo yard for fitout. SWAPS & SALES Hall's tanker OIL TRANSPORT (a. mransor, b. OIL TRANSPORTER) has reportedly been sold for bunker service and storage in the West Indies and will leave Port Dal- housie this spring. 4. late report indicates that Algoma has sold ALGOCEN (a. JOHN J. BARLUM) to the Hindman Transportation Company Ltd. BAYSHELL (1)(a. JUSTINE C. ALLEN), owned by Marmando Cia. Nav. S.A. of ieee Kong, has been renamed STELLA. The veteran CHIPPEWA, built in 1900 at Toledo as a passenger steamer for Arnold Transportation Co. for service between Petoskey and the Sault, and long in ser- vice as a ferry in the Pacific Northwest, has been sold to Donald Clair of Oakland, California for use as a marine museum. Dave Glick + The Detroit Marine Historian is pub- + + lished monthly in the U.S.A. by the + + Marine Historical Society of Detroit + + Incorporated, a Pa society. +@ + Editor: esident: + + CURTIS HASELTINE EDUARD J. MORRIS + + 13951 Faust 22919 Alger + Pra s Detroit, St.Clair Shores, + Michigan 48223 Michigan 48080 +