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L2 >» the Posiedon's TRANSMICHIGAN, which was dam- aged in a collision with Brazilian NETUNO just above the Blue Water Bridge at Port Huron, left the dock at Sarnia, Ontario on September 6. She passed Detroit, downbound, with a large patch on her port side which was put.on after she was towed to Sarnia. Gaelic Tugboat Co. has purchased another tug. She is the former Texaco Tug RICH- MOND, built in 1942 at Madisonville, La. as C. T. DeBARDELEBEN (later LAFAYETTE). LOG oH and she was subsequently sold to a Mr. Richards and renamed R. W. RICHARDS, She left the lakes in early August bound for Charleston, S. C. KILLARNEY will be membered as the old engineer's tug BAR- LOW. re- THOMAS F, PATTON, TOM GIRDLER and CHARLES M. WHITE of the Republic Fleet will go to Cleveland Cliffs next year. Tug B. E. WEST goes on the black at a sheriff's sale in September, she was last She is a 75.9 x 23 x 10 tug and has been seen in Pt. Clinton, Ohio. renamed KILKENNY in keeping with the This new surplus Irish names of Gaelic's acquisition made the tugs. KILLARNEY Canada Steamship Lines SAGUENAY is to be converted to a self-unloader this winter. a} ‘Denes t The ROGER BLOU pletely designed, en; Great Lakes. Its\o to indicate that it wa built by The Americ: This vessel has mar are its unusually larg system will discharge hour off its stern. T and can extend 54 f port or starboard. Its twin diesel engi propeller will give her