Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Detroit Marine Historian, v. 23, n. 6 (February 1970), p. 2

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V2 5S the Con-Bridge Ltd., of Toronto, has an $80,000 contract for a 1,760- foot breakwall along the shore at Amherstburg just below the town. The University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee has purchased a 65- foot former Army supply boat, built in 1953, from Mackinac College for $9,200. They will convert her into a research boat at a cost of $30,000 for their Center for Great Lakes Studies. 1969 saw 899,200 visitors at the Soo Locks -- an all-time high. Amship is taking over the Great Lakes Associates, Inc., the only stevedoring company in They had been in it as grain Buffalo. a joint venture. IRVING S. OLDS went into Cleve- land with a rare load of Wilson ore on Dec. 2 and another rare load was carried by CANADIAN PROGRESS when took 26,190 tons of Sept Iles ore to Lacka- wanna on Nov. 27. The "standard" 730-footers can carry only about 22,900 tons at this season on this run. she Detroit in 1969 recorded a total of 14,059 passages as against loG-— 13,976 in 1968. This one vessel every 26 minutes dur- ing the shipping season. Salties were down to 979 from 1,033 in 1968, showing that the lakers had a better season. averages A record 3,316,734 tons of iron ore came down in December, top- ping the 43,149,947 tons in Dec- ember, 1959. CLOSINGS: Duluth-Superior, Marquette, Presque Isle Dock, CLIFFS VICTORY, 12/15 Havre St.Pierre, Que., RIMOUSKI, 11/8 Pointe Noire, SIMCOE, 12/7 Silver Bay, 12/16 Superior, Great Northern Dock, JOSEPH H. THOMPSON, 12/19 MERCURY, 12/24 CHARLES M. WHITE, Duluth, D.M.I.R. Dock, ERNEST T. WEIR, 12/17 Taconite Harbor, 12/18 Michipicoten, 12/4 JOHN SHERWIN ROY A. JODREY, Keel for the 425-foot stern sec- tion of U.S. Steel's 858-footer was laid at Amship, Lorain, on Dec. 29, but no completion date

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