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' The Detroit Marine Historian Journal of Marine Historical Society of Detroit Volume 25, Noe 6 13951 Faust, Detroit, Michigan 48223, February, 1972 Photo by Ed Haun Weatbie Ends Leap Carce 7 Ai rs he Coast Guard buoytender WOODBINE has been withdrawn from SRREAG service on the Great Lakes and will be declared surplus. The pxiz-g Grand Haven-based 180-footer was the oldest of six her size on the Lakes and became one of 11 being decommissioned nationally in an economy move. The nearly 30-year-old veseel came to the Lakes in 1947 after seeing war service in the Pacific and for almost a quart- er of a century shepherded tankers and carferries across Lake Michi- gans The new polar icebreaker EDISTO, based at Milwaukee, will take over some of WOODBINE's icebreaking chores while her duties in set- ting and maintaining navigational aids will be divided up among the MESQUITE, SUNDEW and the big icebreaker, MACKINAW.