Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Detroit Marine Historian, v. 29, n. 3 (November 1975), p. 2

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lo te LoG Ps) CHARLES DICK is NOT being scrapped! She is away from the city view of Port Colborne and lying at Ramey's Bend. The GEORGE SEEDHOUSE upbound for Sturgeon Bay on the evening of Oct. 24 by the tugs DONEGAL and JOHN PURVES. Looks like she is being spared from the breaker's torch, too, to be made into a floating workshop. The steamer was towed The new carferry being finished at Port Weller is named the SIR ROBERT BOND. The tug MANICOUAGAN that was stationed at Port Cartier has gone to the West Coast. She was built on Georgian Bay as the FEDERAL BEAVER. The Canadian motor vessel AIGLE D'OCEAN, built in 1919 anda frequent visitor to the upper lakes, sank on the evening of Aug. 20 off Port Burwell after coming in contact with an ice- berg. ‘his Port Burwell is off the coast of Labrador. Two men lost their lives as the result of the sinking while five were rescued by a helicopter which then crashed. Two of the heli- copter crewmen died and two of the rescued were missing. Rumors from the Duluth area have it that the HATFIELD, CLEMSON McGONAGLE and KERR will not run next season. Are they all due for the scrapyard? The new boat for Inland Steel, the JOSEPH L. BLOCK, will be 728 feet long, not 1,000 as previ- ously stated. The name of the firm that bought the former SILVER BAY and CHAR- LES M. SCHWAB is Pierson, not Pearson. Sorry about that. (See Skip Gillham's story elsewhere.) Success with the Lykes Line ves- sels that entered the Lake trade this year has prompted that com- pany to go along again next year and possibly increase the ser- vice. Hope you people that read these notes every month, even though they may be late going to press, will help out a little more. Ev- ery few weeks I get some help from a very reliable source from aboard one of the vessels, but that is all I get. In order to keep up these columns, we need your help. Won't you please send along any information you get? I won't be able to answer your letters but I will get your in- formation to the editor. Send along your notes to Fr. Pete Van der linden...4190 Green Drive, Island, Mich. 48028... I'm now located right on the shipping channel, next to the Church and will gladly receive any news you have. Harsens “

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