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Meanwhile, the European arrivals of some of the earlier tows have been reported. cage ees at San- tander, Spain, on June 16, was BLANCHE HINDMAN (a. THHODORE H. WICKWIRE, b. HARRY YATES). On July 8 the same port saw the ar- rival of ALGOCEN (a.JOHN J. BAR- LUM) and HILLSDALE (a.CALDERA, b.A.T.KINNEY. On June 17 SOODOC ea TAYLOR) and R.O. PETMAN a.E.B.OSLER, b.OSLER) arrived at Spezia, Italy. SHIPYARD SHAVINGS The Coast Guard's new cutter, VENTUROUS, built at Lorain, was commissioned at Cleveland Sept. 12 and passed down the Welland Sept. 14 enroute to San Diego, Calif. Keel-laying ceremonies for HULL 900, the 858-footer for U.S. Steel, were held Sept. 3 at Lor- ain where 250 feet of the stern will be built in an existing dry dock pending completion of the new, large dry dock. Blount Marine, of Warren, R. I., is building an 86%-foot, 500- passenger ferry for May, 1969, delivery to Straits Transit Co., of Mackinac Island, to replace the STRAITS OF MACKINAC. HULL 191 at Collingwood is s¢he- duled to be christened ALGOCEN (ii) on Sept. 20. The Navy patrol gunboat DEFIANCE was christened Aug. 24 at the yard of Peterson Builders at Sturgeon Bay. The new self-unloader CANADIAN PROGRESS made her maiden voyage on Aug. 23. On Sept. 3 she set a record when she loaded 29,067 tons of coal at Conneaut. SWAPS & SALES Another queen has been lost from the Lakes. Our beloved ASSINI- BOIA was sold again - this time to Assiniboia Steamships Corp., Philadelphia. On Aug. 28 she left Sarnia under her own power and was down the Welland on Aug. 31. Unlike 1907, the last time she was down that way, she was able to sail through the canals without being cut in two. A few days later she cleared Montreal, reportedly under a new name, and by now should be undergoing con- version to a floating restaurant on the Delaware River. Coastlake Tankers, Ltd., has sold three tankers to Hall Corp. TRANSINLAND (a.STEEL CHEMIST, b. THE INLAND) is renamed INLAND TRANSPORT, COASTAL CREEK (a.SAS- KATOON, b.ROSEMOUNT, c.WILLOW- BRANCH, c. SMPIRE TADPOLE, d. BA- SING CREEK) is renamed CREEK TRANSPORT. COASTAL CARRIER (a. INTERWATERWAYS LINE INCORPORATEB 104, b.I.L.I.104, c.ALDEN BARNES FIERTZ) is renamed BAY TRANS- Industrial Development Bank of Ottawa is advertising BAYFAIR and BAYGEORGE for sale "as is, where is,priced for quick sale." PERILS OF THE DEEP The German freighter RHEIN ran aground in the Saginaw River on Aug. 25 but was pulled free by the veteran tug LIBERTY. 6,500 gallons of heavy fuel oil, aboard the salty FRANCISCO MORA- ZON ever since she was abandoned on South Manitou Island in 1960, caught fire on Aug. 29 shortly after Michigan's attorney gener- al proposed legal action to eli- minate the pollution danger. AUGUST ZIESING grounded in a fog at the entrance to the West Neebish rockcut on Sept. 13. Af- ter all but two of the gates of the control dam at the Soo were closed, part of her cargo was Llightered and four tugs got into action, she was freed Sept. 15. While she had the channel block— ed, both upbound and downbound traffic used the Middle Neebish Channel. MUNSON towed ZIESING to South Chicago for repairs.