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BLANCHE HINDMAN aground in St. Clair River (See LOG) Peter Worden Photo q National Steel's ERNEST T. WEIR was downbound | oa the LoG ~~] at Detroit on May 12 carrying Ene deckhouses and hatch covers for the company's 1,000-foot motorvessel under construction at Lorain, re- William J. Luke, Editor portedly to be christened GEORGE A. STINSON. The covers and houses were fabricated at Amer- ican Ship's South Chicago yard. Work on the midbody for the STINSON appears well along at the shipbuilder's Toledo facility. * Meanwhile at Lorain, P.M.'s MESABI MINER was scheduled for dock trials June 4, with christening at Duluth on June 11. P.M.'s fit- out roster fails to list E. G. GRACE, laid up at Ashtabula. * Our member Bill Hoey has added another tug to his Gaelic Tugboat Co. fleet. The SHANNON arrived at the firm's River Rouge docks on May 12 following voyage from Savannah, Georgia via the New York State Barge Canal. She is the former U.S. Navy tug YTM-388, U.S.S. CONNEWANGO, built in 1944 at Morris Heights, New York City to dimensions of 101' o.a. x 28'. * The first Cuban salty to enter the Lakes in about 15 years, the IGNACCIO AGRAMONTE, passed up at Detroit on May 14 bound for grain at Thunder Bay for Havana. * Erie Sand Steamship's newly-acquired ATLAS TRAVELER, a.) SPINDLE TOP, b.) LAKE CHARLES, has been named LOC BAY for Lake Ontario Cement and Bay of Quinte. * Kinsman's GEORGE M. STEINBRENNER (ii), a.) ARTHUR H. “HAWGOOD, b.) JOSEPH BLOCK, resumed service May 5 after two seasons of idleness in the Frog Pond at Toledo. * Hyman-Michaels by late April had cut away the stern half of WILLIAM J. FILBERT, a.) WILLIAM M. MILLS, at Duluth. Next in line there for dismantling would appear to be HENRY PHIPPS. * Marine Salvage, Ltd. cutting crews had sandsucker CHARLES DICK almost totally apart at Ramey's Bend by mid-May. * The South Jersey Port Corporation has been advertising sale of SOUTH AMERICAN at Camden, New Jersey She will go to the highest bidder, at a $40,000 minimum offer, on June 20. It will be re- (Cont'd. P. 3)