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ee the Loc aeral The tug ROD McLEAN, formerly the BAYPORT, a) FAIRPORT, c) TWIN PORT, is now in service for Mc- lean of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Also for McLean, the A. T. LOW- MASTER was brought up this sp- ring from the coast and will be converted for lake towing. She was built for the C&O in 1949 and later converted from steam to diesel. The WILFRED SYKES is out but she looks like the Canadian FRONTE- NAC with her box-like unloading rig located at the stern. The JOHN G. MUNSON will be the next vessel to be lengthened this fall at Fraser Shipyards at Superior. The EDWARD B. ENE and the ARTHUR B. HOMER will follow. The NORGOMA has been sold to the City of Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., and the NORISLE to Manitowaning on the north shore of Manitoulin Island. The SAM LAUD suffered over 600 feet of bottom damage grounding in the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal and will be out for a long times The little DRUMMOND ISLANDER ferry is being lengthened at Sault Ste. Marie, The Interlaker CHARLES M. SCHWAB has been sold to Pearson of Port Colborne, the same people who bought the SILVER BAY this past spring. The new 1,000-foot Inland Steel ship being built at Sturgeon Bay will be named JOSEPH L. BLOCK, The new name for the CALGADOC is EL SALINERO. The ROBERT HOBSON has been sold for scrap to Marine Salvage and will be towed overseas. The OJIBWAY, U. S. Steel service ship at the Soo, has been re- painted with a blue hull and gray cabins. If this color comb- ination pleases those concerned, maybe all of the U. S. Steel fleet will be painted this way. CONSUMERS POWER has been laid up at Nicholson's dock in the Det- roit River. Many other ships have been laid up due to slow- ness of business. Canadian grain earriers are also laid up ee carrying reduced cour ee s. Amon the layups are RIMOUSKI, SEAWAY QUEEN and JAMES NORRIS. Others in the American fleets will be four Cliffs ships and some of the Interlakers. Someone should tell the men on the Bethlehem boats to get with it. The "I" beam logo is grand but the black and white bands above and below it are something else. Every ship is different. Some are parallel to the deck and some parallel to the slant of the stack and the bands don't seem to meet at the back. The new 770-foot bulk freighter for Boland & Cornelius, the ST. CLAIR, was launched July 24 at Sturgeon Bay. The next vessel for Boco will be named the BELLE RIVER. Both will haul coal from Lake Superior ports to the Det- roit Edison plant at Recors Point on the St. Clair River. More scrappings: Reliable sourc- es report that Marine Salvage has purchased four more ships to be scrapped. They already have the PETER ROBERTSON but she has not yet been moved. Pearson of Port Colborne has now bought A. T. LAWSON from Stein- brenner and on Aug. 10 she was waiting at Toledo for the arriv- al of a Canadian crew. Looks as if Pearson was building a small fleet of their own.