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Ce the BULLHORN Another barge deal has gone into operation. Huron Cement is oper- ating the LEWIS G. HARRIMAN as a barge, towed by Great Lakes Tow- ing's LAURENCE C. TURNER, bet- ween the Alpena plant and Sag- inaw and Detroit "as long as the demand lasts." This is similar to the C.H.MCCULLOUGH JR. being operated as a barge by Pickands Mather in Lake Michigan and the Norfolk & Western railroad car- ferries at Detroit being trans- formed into barges. And here we thought barges were outmoded and scrapped the MAIDA and CONSTITU- TION! Next thing you know they will be coming out with schooner rigse Late reports indicate there is still hope for a couple of our old favorites. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports CANADIANA is still owned by James Vinci of Diamond Jim's Steakhouse and is NOT for sale. He is fixing her up for a nightspot. Also ERIE QUEEN is to be renamed THE BOAT AT THE RIVERS EDGE and has or will open shortly. RICHARD TRIMBLE blew a cylinder down the river and took her in tow to the Soo where she tor- rowed a cylinder head from the VALLEY CAMP to steam to Superior for permanent repairso STONEFAX was up the Welland on Sept. 10, her first trip of the year and was at Ojibway for salt on Sept. 20. SHIPYARD SHAVINGS Scuttlebutt has it that SAGUENAY will be converted to self-un- loader this winter and that CSL will build two more self-unload- erse IMPERIAL BEDFORD was turned over to Imperial Oil by Davieship on Auge 6e LOG oy Shell Canada, Ltd., has ordered a 1200-ton barge from Port Wel- ler Drydocks to be used in the Hamilton area, towed by the tug TIFFIN which came down from the Lakehead. SCRAPS On Aug. 30 the tug HERBERT A., formerly SUSAN HINDMAN, towed PORTADOC (a.H.C.FRICK, »b.E.A.S. CLARK, c.MARS, d.CANADOC) up at Port Colborne. Reportedly she was bound for Port Maitland to load a dismantled floating oil rig and then be towed to Trois Rivieres and possibly overseas for scrapping. MARTIAN (a.NEPTUNE, b.WILLIAM M. CONNELLY) cleared Windsor under her own power on Sept. 13 at 12:45 a.m, enroute to Quebec with a Hindman crew and Capt. Doug Post, of Owen Sound, as her skippers PERILS OF THE DEEP Great Lakes tug MARYLAND sank two miles off Sturgeon Point in Lake Huron on Aug. 26 while un- der tow by LAURENCE C. TURNER. When she started to go down, the TURNER headed for the beach but she sank in 40 feet. Raised in mid-October, she was taken to Alpena. Tug JOHN ROEN V_ caught a cable in her wheel on Lake Michigan in early August and tug JOHN PURVES had to tow her and her oil barge into port. Carferry GRAND RAPIDS bumped a railroad bridge over the Kin- nickinnic River at Mailwaukee It put the bridge out of commission a couple of days but the carfer- ry suffered little damage. CITY OF GREEN BAY suffered con- siderable waterline damage when caught by wind at Frankfort. Hal Jackson and Dave Glick &