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L2 >» the BULLHORN Upper Lakes' new flagship, CANADIAN PRO- GRESS passed upbound through the Welland Canal on Aug. 23 on her maiden voyage. She was bound for Vonneaut to load coal for Ontario Hydro's Toronto plant. The new boat, lqrgest self-unloader on the Lakes, may well set tonnage records. Water was let into the new Poe Lock for the first time on Aug. 27, the beginning of a month of testing before the new $40 million lock becomes operational. Dedi- cation ceremonies have been put off un- til early next summer. Completion of the 1,200 x 110-foot structure was delayed by a series of strikes. The new Poe will accommodate vessels 1,000 x 105 feet. Pickands-Mather and the Diamond Shamrock Corporation have agreed to merge. EDMUND FITZGERALD broke the all-time ore record for the Soo when she carried 30, 800 tons through on July 30. A report from the East indicates that the SOUTH AMERICAN is boarded up at Nor- folk and is for sale. Public tours are being offered aboard two veteran Lake boats "commanded" by our fellow members. At the Michigan Soo, Tom Manse heads an operation that offers tours of the freighter VALLEY CAMP (a. LOUIS W. HILL). Meanwhile, Pat Labadie is moving to Douglas (Saugatuck) to head up tourist operations aboard K=ZEWATIN. Congress on Aug. 2 authorized spending $31,300,000 on the All-American Channel between Grosse Ile in the lower Detroit River and the mainland. The project as approved calls for a 28-foot channel 300 feet wide with a new turning basin at Gibraltar and compensating dikes. LAKE MANITOBA made her maiden voyage up the Welland Canal on July 31. At Quebec, GASPEDOC (a. LST 885) has ap- parently been renamed CHESTERFIELD. SCRAPS Tugs G. W. ROGERS and TRAVELER towed the BRYN BARGE (a. BRYN MAWR) down past De- LOG aw troit on Aug. 15 and then went back get the ROEBLING and finally the J( (FRITZ. All three of the Upper Lake Goderich grain storage fleet reporte¢ will be used for a temporary construc ion breakwater near Toronto. CHARLZS A. DUNLAP (a. L.M. BOWERS) v reported at Quebec in early August « may have been towed overseas by now. BRICOLDOC (a. JAMES H. HOYT) was tov down the Seaway on Aug. 6 by the tr SALVAGE MONARCH and JAMES BATTLE. ¢ is evidently headed for Europe. SWAPS & SALES The crane boat ELBA has been sold to t Waterman Steamship Company for probat trade-in on saltwater tonnage. Gartland has sold FRANK E. TAPLIN ( CHARLES W. KOTCHER) to Sea-Land Servic Inc., for probable trade-in. al At aU. S. Marshal's sale in New % City on Aug. 15, the Superior—built t FRANCIS A.SMALL was bid in at $1,000,C by Tidewater Dredging Corp., a subsid ary of Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. Labrador Steamship has agreed to se POINTE NOIRE (a. SAMUEL MATHER) to Upr Lakes Shipping, subject to Maritime 4 ministration approval. In the meantin Upper Lakes is operating her under che ter and she is carrying an Upper Lak stack while retaining the Labrador 1x hull. PERILS OF THE DEEP A barge made from the bow section of t old tanker ORION (a. EDGEWATER) sank ¢ the mouth of the Black River, Lorain, July 23. She was being towed from Tole to Cleveland by the tug LAURENCE C. Tl NER when heavy weather got the best her. Abandoned, she was raised on Aug. by the Army “‘ngineers and beached@ Lorain. LI