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© SCRAPS United Metals has apparently bought the McAllister tug GRAEME STEWART. U.S.S.TOWHEE (AGS-28) b.MSF-388) stricken list on May 1, 1969. She was a Minesweeper built as HULL 1019 by Amship at Cleveland in 1945. (a. AM-388, from Navy ILERI (a.LAKE GAITHER, b.TEXAS RANGER, c.EMPIRE SNIPE, d.STAX- TON) owned by Mustafa Ve Ahmet Ve Venbi Aldikacti Vaporculuk Kollectie Sirketi, Istanbul, Turkey, was broken up in Turkey in 1968. She was a WWI "laker" built as HULL 108 by Manitowoc SB & DD Co. in 1919. (We had to use this item for the name) MANITOBA arrived under tow at Newport, Monmouthshire, England, on July 19 to be broken up by John Cashmore, Ltd. United Metals was to scrap barge HILDA (McAllister-Ryke's, not Roen's) but she was in such bad shape they towed her out of Kingston and intentionally sank her. MARTIAN and PORTADOC were still at Sorel on Sept. 30. PHILIP MINCH will be scrapped by Ramon-Mari-Pino of Madrid,Spain, SHIPYARD SHAVINGS Cleveland Tankers' new unmanned barge PHOENIX was scheduled to be launched by Wyatt Industries’ Port Houston Shipyard, Houston, Tex., Oct. 14.: She will be 341' long and carry 58,000 bbls. She will be pushed by a chartered "Designed for, her." She is to the lakes tug supposed to come via the Seaway. TYEE SHELL scheduled out of Col- lingwood in November, 68'6" longer, 6' wider and 4'6" deeper carrying 32,000 bbls and to be renamed ARCTIC TRADBR. Still owned by Shell of Canada. The third module for the new Bethlehem 1,000-footer was fin- ished at Erie in early October. Ingalls SB module, along with the bow and The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports, is also building one stern, at Pascagoula, Miss. "Two more like her are expected to be built two for operation by Wilson Mar- in the next year or ine Transit." PERILS OF THE DEEP Salvage work began Oct. 14 on GRAND HAVEN at Cleveland. Murphy Marine using equipment subcontracted from G. & W. Welding, got the job. Pacific Salvage, Hal Jackson and Dave Glick