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Ce > the BULLHORN ALGOCEN made her first trip down the Welland on Sept. 28. The RESEARCHER, a 278' x 51' x 41%' survey vessel, was chris- tened at American Ship Build- ing's Toledo yard on Oct. 5. Skindivers have recovered the propeller and shaft from the steamer PRINCE which burned and sank just east of Kelleys Island in 1911. It is now on display on North Shore Blvd., just west of Lakeside, Ohio. KINSMAN ENTZRPRISE was aground in the lower harbor at the Soo from Oct. 7 until Oct. 9 when the tugs JOHN PURVES and AM- HeRSTBURG finally freed her. She apparently suffered little dam- age from her mishap in the fog. The Lorain-built Coast Guard cutter STZADFAST was commission- ed at Cleveland Oct. 7 and was down the Welland Oct. 8 enroute to her new station at St.Peters— burg, Fla. The Japanese salty KIMAKAWA MARU extensively damaged the Welland Bridge 3 when she hit it in mid- October. It may be necessary to replace the bridge. serapping operations have be, at Hamilton on BLUE RIVER REDCHIEF). At Port Huron on Oct. 12 skin- divers recovered a large anchor from the schooner JOHN MARTIN. The MARTIN was sunk in collision with the steamer YUMA on Sept. 22, 1900, and had laid just a- bove the Blue Water Bridge all these years. (Somehow that just doesn't sound right. She wasn't really above the bridge. Maybe it should be upstream instead. 9) LEONARD C. HANNA and WINDOC (a. LOG c~_w M.A.HANNA, b.HYDRUS) arrived in a double tow at Spezia, Italy scrapyard on Aug. 1. SCRAPS Columbia's Pringle Barge Line has sold the tug S.N.DZAN to the McAllister Brothers of New York. Serap bids will reportedly be asked soon on the barge MAIDA ringing down the curtain on the long-familiar coal barge service between Toledo and Detroit. The small passenger boat NORMAC (a.JAMES R. ELLIOTT) has been sold by Owen Sound Transportat— ion Co., Ltd., to Don Lee of Port Lambton at a reported price of $7,000. She is presently laid up at Wallaceburg and may be put to work breaking ice there. Cleveland Tankers are having a 57,000-barrel, 341' x 54' x 22! tank barge built at a Gulf ship- yard for 1969 delivery to the Lakes. Canada Steamship Lines has sold three more boats for scrap. The package freighter COLLINGWOOD was towed down the Seaway Sept. 18 by the tugs JAMES BATTLE and GRAEME STEWART. The bulker HAG- ARTY (a.J.H.HAGARTY) made qa sim- ilar voyage with the tugs JAMES BATTLE and SALVAG MONARCH Sept. 24. Both have pees pee Aes Steel Factors the self-unioader MIDLAND PRINGE has been sold to Marine Salvage, Ltd. At last report she was laid up at Kingston. For the first time in history more grain cleared Lake ports in August aboard saltwater vessels than aboard Lake boats. On Sept. 26 Henry G. Steinbren- ner was honored at the Soo as "Great Lakes Man of the Year." At the same time the first six men were inducted into the Mar- ©