Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Detroit Marine Historian, v. 22, n. 10 (June 1969), p. 2

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te > theloG: 3 BULLHORN KELLEY ISLANDER was up the Wel- land on June 3 and was scheduled to be christened at Kelleys Is- land on June 7. HENRY G. DALTON downbound with ore, grounded off Mud Island in the Detroit River, about 4 a.m. on Tuesday, June 10. She was fi- nally refloated early on June 12 after T. F. took out most of her cargo. Great Lakes tug SAMUEL BOOL ar- rived at Detroit June 9 towing river-type pusher towboat ST. JOSEPH, a 150', 2800-hp monster for the N&W railroad. June 10 she received a 42' high pilot- house at Nicholson's and did a little practicing on the River with the N&W carferries. The MANITOWOC will be first to be reduced to a barge with stacks, spars and part of bridge removed but engines and boilers left in to weight her down. WINDSOR will be next between July 15 and Aug. 15 and then DETROIT will be last after Aug. 15. Tug is on charter from Sioux Barge Lines, of La- Mont, I1l., and will be joined by S. P. REYNOLDS, also owned by Sioux, about July 15. The Coast Guard is considering a rule that would require the in- stallation of radio-telephones on all drawbridges on the Lakes system. The tug GRAEME STEWART is re- ported out of om SEOs The Hanna report for June 15 says the MERLE M. MOGURDY (a.WILLIAM B. DICKSON) is being fitted out at Lorain but that she and the WILLIAM J. OLCOTT have been de- leted from the Kinsman Fleet in an apparent inter-company move. SCRAPS Oxford Shipping Corp., of New York City, was high bidder on the four Lakers turned in to the MarAd by Sea-Land Service; J. E. UPSON, PETER ROBERTSON (a.E. J. EARLING, b.ROBERT 3B. WALLACE), HARRY W. CROFT (a.FRED G. HART- WELL), and PHILIP MINCH. Oxford, who are said to represent a West German scrapper, bid $166,275. MANITOBA (a. VERONA, be oo STEINBRENNER, c. UHLMANN BROTH =ERS) reportedly was sold to Com- mercial Metals in Texas but we understand that she will be scrapped in England. She arrived at Detroit under her own power on June 2, loaded scrap at De- troit Marine Terminals and de- parted at 1:45 p.m. on June 5. Norlake is delivering her to Quebec. HOWARD HINDMAN (a.A.A.AUGUSTUS) is going for scrap. She was down the Welland under her own power on June 5 at 9:20 a.mo PEAVEY PIONEER (a. STEP! M. CLEMENT, b.UNITED STATES GYPSUM, c. JOHN ae BOLAND, d.NIAGARA Mo- HAWK) had her forward geen cut off at Duluth on May 20 SHIPYARD SHAVINGS Barge D.B.WELDON (a.MARICOPA, b. JOHN P. GEISTMAN, c.E.E. JOHNSON, d.ALTADOC) was towed to Colling wood on June 22 for removal of cabins and machinery and hull repairs. When finished she will reportedly go back into the grain storage fleet at Goderich. By Dave Glick & Hal Jackson As we go to press an old sailing vessel has been raised off Chambers Island in Green Bay, believed to be the ALVIN CLARK built in Trenton, Mich., in 1846 for the Clark Fisheries, which sank June 10, 1864, -)

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