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[sche loge Transfer of the FAUL THAYER and WILLTaM R. ROESCH to the Pringle Transit Co., has been completed. Both are now painted in Columbia colors but the -tacks are maroon with the old Pringle Barce line -- P-Ring-Gull -- insignia en- bossed in whit>. The ROs HOBSON will not be scrapped. She has been sold by Narine Salvage to the Q&O and is being refitted at Fort Colborne. The CHARLES DICK has been sold for scrap to Marine Salvage. The LACHIN2DO* has been sold to Persian Gulf interests. She left Montreal Sept. 8 as EMERALD for Belfast in Northern Ireland with a cargo of soybeans. SARNIADOC has been Paterson and will be fitted out to run between Wallaceburg and Cardinal rest of this season. for the The new Paterson boat building at Collingwood to the same din- ensions as ONTADYC will be named soODOC. The rest of the Steinbrenner fleet has been transferred to S& E Steamship Co., but will retain the of this season at least. Kinsman colors for the rest A-T. LOWMASTER, the tug recently retained by" bought by Mclean at Soo, Ont., has been renamed WILFRED COHEN. CHARLES if. SCHWAB has been re- named PIERSON DAUGHTERS and for- get the bad jokes involving the MCKEE SONS. Despite the skipper of the A.T. LAWSON says she nas NOT under rumors, been sold aniis the U. S Flag. sailing The Steamship Historical Society of America is publisher of a new enlarged edition of "Merchant © Steam Vessels of the United States, 1790-1868" after being out of print for several years. Also known as the lytle-Hold- camper List after the compilers, it lists basic data on more than 10,000 steamers up to the start of "Merchant Ves- sels of the United States" in 1868. Edited by Brad Mitchell and Kenneth Hall, it is availa- ble at $15 from the University of Baltimore Press, 1420 Mary- land, Baltimore, Md., 21201. original There is again a K. A. POWELL at Goderich. ELMDALE which is now a grain storage hulk there, has been renamed POWELL to keep the name of the old barge alive. fraser Shipyards will lengthen ARTHUR B. HOMER by 96 feet this winter to be followed by P. R. CLARKE, ARTHUR ANDERSON, JOHN G. MUNSON and RESERVE.