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INTRODUCING, INTRODUCING, cont'd. H. C. HEIMBECKER - Following the rename of WESTDALE (ii) this past winter, the H.C. HEIMBECKER is now in the very colorful Soo River Line. Her familiar deep throated steam whistle, one of very few remaining, has sounded these many years since she was built in 1905. The vessel came out as GEORGE W. PERKINS of the Pittsburgh Steamship Company for whom she sailed until 1964. It is good to see such a staunch vessel still carrying on in her various trades, now including voyages to the lower St. Law- rence Rivers (photo below) 10C BAY - This small self-unloader will probably not become too familiar to boat watchers. It appears she is destined to spend most of her time carrying cement across Lake Ontario between Picton and Charlotte, New York. She came to the Lakes in November of 1976 as the ATLAS TRAVELLER and replaced the PEERLESS on the across the lake run. ATLAS TRAVELLER was renamed LOC BAY short- ly after the 1977 navigation season got under way. Originally a tanker, she was con- verted in 1962 to a self-unloading bulk carrier by the Southern Shipbuilding Corp. at Sidell, Louisiana. Repowering with a G.M. diesel occured at the same time. Erie Sand purchased the vessel from the United States Steel Corp. They had been operating her on deep sea coastal runs. (Photo p.6) MESABI MINER - The fourth 1,000 footer to enter service on the Lakes is the new Inte lake S.S. Co.'s MESABI MINER, named after the many thousands of ordinary people who have labored in the iron mines over the past century. This giant is almost a twin of the JAMES R. BARKER which entered service last year for the same fleet. Ironically she is now laid up at Ashland, Wisconsin because of the miners* strike but she will see many years of service on the Lakes. (Photo p.6) H. C. HEIMBECKER. C.317133 built at Superior, Wis. in 1905 by the Superior S.B. Co. as a.) GEORGE W. PERKINS, b.) WESTDALE in 1964. 569 o.a. x 5612" x 20'9%", 7584 reg. tons, 6553 g-t., U.S.202166. Ed. Photo 5