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[asthe LoG eo The shipping season is well un- derway once again. The SILVER BAY is now running as the JUDITH M. PIERSON and her stack mark- ings are: Black band on top, silver stack with a large black shamrock or four-leaf clover im- posed on the silver stack. Some of the Quebe¢ and Ontario vessels are sporting a new stack color also: top band is blue, then a white band and light green bottom. The JOHN ROEN V stack emblem has three-bladed propeller with letters E.B.T. on The new Paterson vessel is defi- nately the ONTADOC and made her maiden trip through the Soo on April 24. Fellow member Bill Haller is 3d engineee on her. The JOHN G. MUNSON will remain in the colors of the Bradley Division of US Steel and her hull will not be painted red as expected last fall. The old S. M. DOUGLASS, ex-WHITE STAR, an old sidewheel passenger vessel, later a sand dredge on the St.Lawrence, is now a break- wall at Kingston. About 400 feet of the new Inter- lake 1,000-footer have been com- pleted at Lorain. The JAMES FERRIS has left Port Colborne bound for Quebec. The and KINSMAN VOYAGER will follow her, but the HENNE- PIN will be scrapped at Ramey's Bend. The LAVIOLETTE will return to the lakes this summer. She is owned by Albert Russell Avery of Mooretown, Ontario (near Court- across from St. Clair, supposed to run excursions out of Sarnia soon. The ex Roen barge HILDA is on her way to New Orleans. She was towed to Joliet, Ill., by the tug MARGARET M. HANNAH. The new TEXACO WARRIOR (ex ANTE- RIORITY), built at Wallsend, England, in 1970 has been regis— tered at Toronto and will proba- bly see service on the lakes this summer. CONISCLIFFE HALL has been re- named the TELESIS and is in Port Colborne to be given the finish- ing touches in her conversion to a drill rig to replace the old SIMCOE. The tug LEE REUBEN has been re- named the MARY E, HANNAH, The old barge CHERRYBRANCH and the steamer SPRINGDALE have been scrapped at Sorel. Persistent rumors as to the sale of many of the Kinsman vessels have not panned out as yet. The two self-unloaders, the ROESCH and theyTHAYER are still in Kin- sman colors and are running. The GOBLE, TIETJEN, MCCURDY and HEN- RY STEINBRENNER are still laid up at Lorain. No more news of the return of the SOUTH AMERICAN has come to my desk, but I suppose every- thing is ready for her tow back to the lakes. When this will oc- cur is still not sure but we would like to receive any news about her so we can pass it on to many who would like to take pictures of her upon her return. If you have any news, please let me know. My address is 3030 Don- d, Harsen's Island, Mich., 48028. Any news is welcome and any corrections too!! This type- writer makes some awful mistakes sometimes. Fr. Pete VanderLinden