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ee the LoG ou This is a new effort to bring the Marine Historian up to date with the latest news about the boats on the Great Lakes. I am in need of many correspondents who will keep this article up to date, so I am enlisting your support. If you have any marine news, just drop me aline, Fr. Peter J. Van der Linden, 3030 Donald, Harsens Island, 48028. Here is some of the latest in the news. The Self-unloader HEN- NEPIN a)SOCAPA, b)GEORGE G. BAR- NUM. is now in layup at. Toledo with almost no possibility of reprieve. She is stripped of most of her "goodies" and is re- ported to be sold to Marine Sal- vage of Port Colborne. The storage barge C. S. BAND a) MARTHA, b DUFLORENCE, c)MAUREEN H. d)FLORENCE J., e)OWENDOC is re- ported to be the next to be scrapped sometime this summer. She is the last of the Paterson barges left at Goderich. The CHEMICAL TRANSFORT, running oil products until the ice be- comes impassable, lost her gen- erator power Thursday, Feb. 12, near Belle Isle and was assisted by the tugs DONEGAL and GALWAY. The steamer THOMAS WILSON, in layup at Toledo Shipyard, has been painted in Columbia Trans- portation colors. The WILLIAM A. REISS a)JOHN A. TOPPING, once again belonging to Columbia, is in the drydock at the sgme place but has not yet received her new colors. The KINSMAN VOYAGER a)H.P. BOPE, D)E.A.S. CLARKE in layup at Tol— edo, has been sold for scrap to Marine Salvage and will probably be taken over by them sometime this spring. The new Paterson boat, Collship #235, has not as yet been named. How about anew BRICOLDOC or perhaps a new SOODOC? These nam- es, once so familiar on the Lakes, would be great and quite in accordance with the logo of naming their vessels with the suffix "doc." She was launched this past January. How about some of you ship fans finding the exact date of the sinking of the BLAIR a)OLIVER H. PERRY, b)MACKINAC ISLANDER? She was lost with all hands off the Aleutian Islands in the North Pacific in December of 1973. She was built at Marine City in 1921 by S.C. McLouth for the Ohio Fish and Game Commis- sion and ran many years for Arn- Paterson old in the Straits of Mackinac. She was sold to the Pacific coast firm of Whitney Fildago Seafoods Co. in 1971 after being taken to the coast in 1968 and belonging to the Rainier Boat Coe, of Seattle. The steamer SILVER BAY has been renamed the JUDITH PIERSON and will sail under the westdale Steamships colors this season. The T#2XACO BRAVE has been sold for scrap to Marine Salvage and will be broken up at Ramey's Bend in the Welland Canal. Quite a bit of her equipment will be used aboard the reconditioned TRILLIUM being restored at Port Colborne. The successful 12 months sailing season has been completed and efforts to continue the winter sailings will be extended next year also. The U.S. Steel fleet will have only 25 vessels sailing this year. The latest to be tied to the wall for the summer months is the JAMES A. FARRELL. Most of the Canadian vessels have been fitted out and many are already sailing but some of the American vessels remain in winter layup. The ice conditions are still bothering some of the vessels. On Sunday, April 6, the South Channel at Harsens Island is still full of drift ice. The Coast Guard vessels are busy here this season, having had troubles in the last few weeks, especially the weekend of March 22-236