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(2 =-sthe The Norwegian ROLWI was the first foreign vessel to dock in Menominee, Mich., since be- fore the Seaway opened. She put in there May 5 with a load of steel pipe from France. salty The salty CATHARINE WIARD was too tall to go under the Fisher Freeway Bridge over the River Rouge and had to dock at Detroit Marine Terminals instead of go- ing to the Ford Motor Co., where she planned. If the engineers had heeded Capt. Frank Becker's advice to build a tunnel instead of a bridge this wouldn't have happened. Kinsman has renamed #.A.S.CLARKE as KINSMAN VOYAGHR and she is back in service. On May 18 tugs HERBERT A. and JAMS WHALEN were listed down at Port Colborne with MANZUTTI. Later they also took MANCOX. CSL's GEORGIAN BAY went aground in the St.Clair Flats May 11. No damage. Greenwood's Lake Boats 1970 is now available from Freshwater LOG c~_w Press, Room 446, The Arcade, Cleveland, O., 44114, for $4.50. Cur Society has 1970 Great Lakes Red Books for $2 as long as they last from John Campbell, 1575 Cleveland, lincoln Park, Mich., 48146. Skip Gilham has taken over Capt. Hawthorne's "Ships That Ply the Lakes" in the Saturday ST. CATH- ARINE'S STANDARD. Also at St. Catharines, radio station CKTB has the daily "Welland Canali Diary" with Bill Bird giving in- formation on vessels in and ex- pected in the locks. 610 on your AM dial.Shipwatchers at the Welland should take along their marine FM radios to hear Welland Canal Control and ships in the canal. Tune in at Cunard Steamship Co., of England and Overseas National Airways have announced a joint venture to own and operate cruise ships. A 700-passenger liner is now being built for the new service in Rotterdam for de- livery in 1971 anda second is scheduled for 1972. two ocean American Steamship has agreed to sell off the 12 boats of the Reiss fleet and not buy any more for five years to settle anti-trust suit. @