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wip De LOG o—~ 1 George M. Steinbrenner III has been named "Great Lakes Man of the Year." He was honored at a dinner at the Soo on Sept. 15. At the same occasion the late Stoddard White, Marine Editor of the De- troit News, was named "Marine Editor of the Decade." Mr. White, a long-time mem- ber of this Society, passed away on Sept. 3. Canada Cement Company has asked for tenders on a new tug/barge conbination. Ferry SUGAR ISLANDER has gone on the drydock at the Soo to receive two more powerful engines and some bow and stern modifications to assist her annual fight with the ice of the St. Marys River. Ashtabula's Union Dock was back in operation about Aug. 12 with 3 Huletts as scrapping continued on the fourth. One of the first vessels to be unloaded when operations were resumed was GEORGE E. SEEDHOUSE which caused all the trouble in the first place. Frank Hoffman, the diver who raised the ALVIN CLARK from Green Bay two years ago, is developing an extensive marine museum around the boat a Menominee, Mich. He has plans to expand his small museum and add a restaurant and "other Great Lakes vessels of another era," all to be done in a pre-1850 mood. The small tanker HUSKY 120 which has been idle at the Soo for several years, departed there under her own power on Aug. 20 having been purchased by Harry Gamble of Port Dover, Ont. Sketchy reports say that the barge PETER REISS has been renamed CARL KRAMER and entered the Lake Erie coal trade in late August. C. S. L.'s SAGUENAY has returned to service as a self-unloader. Columbia's ASHLAND, complete with automated boilers, is again in service. The tanker GOLDEN SABLE (ex-IMPERIAL CORNWALL) departed Montreal for Louis- ville, Que., behind the tug R.F. GRANT on August 12. A fine article in the Aug. 16 issuc of Sault Ste. Marie News and Upper Michs igan Farm Journal featured our beloved Past-President Father Edward Dowling the cae ecebecced Dean of Lake Histor- ns."" The story also made the AP wire eaaeaniae a picture of Father in a very "salty" baseball cap and windbreak "salty" baseball cap and windbreaker piloting the Wellingtons’ SUGAR ISLANDER In early August,the tanker TRANSBAY (a. E. GUNNELL; b. PETER KOENIG; c. AM- HERST) loaded liquified asphalt for Havre St. Pierre in tow of the tug JAMES WHALEN. On Aug. 7, a few miles from Sept Iles, the towing cable parted and TRANSBAY capsized and sank in deep water Thus apparently ends the career of a boat built in 1912 at Manitowoc as a schooner-barge; in 1943 was converted to a suction dredge; in 1952 was converted to a powered tanker; and in recent years has been used as a tank barge. The ex-Quebec City ferry BIENVILLE operated as a floating restaurant @ Sorel last summer. N Stender's new tug, WILLIAM W. STEN- DER, is the former Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. tug WILLIAM P. FEELEY, origin- ally the G.W. CODRINGTON (laid down as ATA-230). She was built in 1949 at Or- ange, Texas. The Coast Guard has assigned the RARITAN to Grand Haven as a replacement for the decommissioned WOODBINE. Erie Sand Steamship Co. has pur- chased the JACK WIRT from American S.S. and placed her in service as a replace- ment for SIDNEY E. SMITH, JR. A report says that no rename is planned. Bob Massey, using the MASSEY D. as salvage vessel, is bringing up steel fro the Liberian MONROVIA which was sunk in collision with ROYALTON in July, 1959 of of Alpena. Diver Frank Besette lost hi life in an accident aboard the wreck o Sept. 5. NX The last whaleback, the tanker MET EOR, passed up the Soo on Sept. 10 in to of JOHN ROEN IV destined for Superior Wis. where she will become a museum.