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te Ee A 126-foot general cargo carrier, the CLARA BERT R., aroused cur- iosity when she docked recently at the foot of Randolph in De- troit. A crewman told a bystand- er that she was going to Lake Michigan to scout for oil. Built in Port Arthur, Tex., she is now owned by lease Flan, Inc. When she docked at the Port Huron Sea- way Terminal for minor repairs, the terminal superintendent was told she is making a geological of the lakes, ac- information received surface survey cording to by Perr Haughton. Malcolm Marine Salvage, of Port Huron, is enlarging its tug boat fleet with a 143-foot ocean-coing salvage tug from the Panama Canal called the TABOGA. A former Navy tug, built in 1943 and sold five years later to the Panama Canal Co., she is now enroute to the Lakes via the Seaway. Her name, taken from a small Pacific island off Panama, will probably be changed. The Halco vessels HUTCHCLIFFE HALL and OREFAX have been sold to a combine of companies on the St. Lawrence to do dredging work on the Seaway. Marine Industries, Porter and McNamara are the firms involved. Lo G Te, The British freighter, SINGAPORE TRADER, which stranded on a pin- nacle of rock in the Seaway re- cently, will be salvaged. The last linseed plant on the American side of the Great Lakes operated by Sherwin Williams Paint Co., at Cleveland, is ex- pected to close after this sea- son. The last cargo of flax was delivered by JAMES E. FERRIS. Similar Canadian plants are very active, particularly in Toronto. Abitibi Paper has sold its tug, NIPIGON, to Jim Reid and Stan Goodfellow, of Sarnia. She was trucked 26 miles from Lake Nipi- gon, where she had spent all her life, to Lake Superior and will be fitted out at Port Arthur Shipyards before making the trip to Sarnia. ORIENT BAY is now the only Abitibi tug on Nipigon. The new CSL self-unloader under construction at Collingwood is to be named NECOUBA. A. H. FERBERT will be repowered (dieselized) at Defoe Shipbuild- ing, Bay City. She will also be automated and receive a new car- go hold (tank tops?) The steamer ROGERS CITY was un- a w 0