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| the LoG oH Speaker for our September meet- ing will be Bill £ngleman, look- out on the Bob-Lo steamer COLUM- BIA, who will show selections of his extensive slide collection. The meeting will be held at 1:30 Pem.e on Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Sarnia Public Library. The Toronto Marine Historical Society's publication, "Scanner" reports that the TRILLIUM is in the process of restored to service after being drydocked at Whitby. The THOMAS RENNIE was reported by Scanner to be back in service after installation of sidewheeler being Toronto Bay new Caterpillar diesels. The vice has proposed to spill some oil in the St, Clair River be- tween Port Lambton and Walpole Island to test oil recovery sys- tems. Despite the promise of a full backup system, the project has drawn the ire of a number of environmental groupse Canadian Environmental Ser- The Drummond Island ferry, DRUM- MOND ISLANDER I is to be length- ened and get a new engine and lighting and heating systemso The Chippewa County (Mich.) Com- missioners approved an $80,000 grant to the road commission for the improvements. Amship board chairman George M. Steinbrenner III has announced that his company is considering selling the Kinsman Marine Tran- sit Co., to put Amship in a pos- ition whe e it "would no longer be competing with the for which we are vessels." companies building new A shortage of Canadian vessels to handle the grain trade out of Thunder Bay has resulted in some shipping by rail directly to the east. Two trainloads are expect- ed to go from Moose Jaw to Que- bec. A management consulting firm has recommended that the port auth- ority boards of Duluth and Sup- erior be merged and given powers to encourage industrial develop- ment of the two ports. The ROCKET (see Page 3) was re- moved from service because she was "weeping" oil around rivets. The HERBERT C. JACKSON is to be converted to a self-unloader at Defoe Shipbuilding this winter, Divers plan to go down 270 feet in Lake Ontario six miles north- west of Port Weller to see if a wreck that has been spotted is indeed one of two U.S. schooners lost in the War of 1812. The wreck could be either SCOURGE or HAMILTON, both of which capsized in a violent storm in 1813 while seeking to engage British ships.