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fee pee CASON J, CALLAWAY is to have 120 feet added to her midsection at fraser Shipyards this winter to bring her length to 767 feet. ENGLISH RIVER is being converted to a cement carrier at Port Ar- thur Shipbuilding, Ltd., Thund- er Bay, Ont. Incan Shipping, Ltd., expects to have its railroad carfloat oper- ation between Thunder Bay, Ont., and Superior, Wis., in operation by late this coming spring. The barge is presently being built on the west coast to carry 30 boxcars parallel sets of tracks, The crossing is expected to require 30 hours. on Dennis Grimm, from Two Rivers, Wis., sends us a report on the salvage of an anchor from the famed "Christmas Tree Ship," the ROUSE SIMMONS, by a group of seuba divers, The one-ton anchor with a 16-foot crossbar was at last recovered in November al- though the schooner's wreckage was spotted two years earlier. The vessel, taking Christmas trees to Chicago, was lost ina storm 62 years ago. Harold Stirton, of Chicago, has sent us the schedule for a new cruise boat to operate between Montreal and Chicago with 7-day trips. It is the M.T.S. GALAXY, built in 1957 by Harland & Wolff Ltd., in Belfast and rebuilt as a luxury cruise ship in 1971, with four decks, completely air- conditioned. She will leave Chi- cago and Montreal on alternate Saturdays. Toronto Harbour Master Capt. John Mann has again blasted the compulsory use of pilots in the open waters of Lake Ontario. The Harbour Commissioners sent a protest to Transport Minister Jean Marchand, charging that the requirement was "not only unnec- essary but costly and contrary to the general public interest." They contended that a pilot was not even necssary to dock at Toronto although experienced men were available if a vessel mast- er wanted such service. Duluth will get anew 225-acre port development for the ship- ment of low-sulfur coal - on the site of its once-great coal re- ceiving facilities, It to have an annual capacity of 10 million tons which may ultimate- ly be extended to 20 million. A heavy demand for the coal which is mined in Wyoming and Montana is expected for plants to meet new ecological standards. truction is to start this spring with completion scheduled for 1976. One of the heaviest poten- tial users, Detroit Edison %., may construct a fleet of boats to handle this coal, is Cons-