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Canada Steamship Lines' 730-foot self- Va as the LOG —~_ J mloader LOUIS R. DESMARATS was christened at Collingwood Shipyards on October 27th and passed downbound at Detroit on her William J. Luke, Editor first trip November 8th. *** The CHIT WAWATAM has returned to her station in the Straits. Her new ower is Straits Car Ferry Corporation (State of Michigan), *** The former U.S. Coast Guard buoy ten- der TAMARACK, owned by private interests in Detroit for some years, passed down the Welland Canal on November 2nd enroute to new ownership on Long Island Sound in Connecticut. *** Negotiators for striking iron ore miners on November 7th re- jected the owners' first incentive-pay offer. On November 21st, miners for Cleve- land-Cliffs reportedly had settled. *** The cruise vessel LOWELL THOMAS EXPLORER was auctioned to Liberian interests at Montreal in mid-November for $370,000. Creditors claims were said to total $1,250,000. *** CSL's ESKIMO has been re- turned to the Lakes after charter to eastern coastal operators for some time. *** Envirodyne, Inc.'s recently rechristened MAXINE (b) THE INTERNATIONAL honors the firm's general counsel, Maxine H. Linde. *** Sale of the tanker IMPERIAL LONDON to Honduran flag operators has fallen through. Following drydocking at Whitby for bottom inspection and painting, the steamer was towed back to Marine Salvage, Ltd.'s scrap yard at Ramey's Bend by October 29th. *** The former Halco canaller COVE TRANSPORT was under tow of the tug G. W. ROGERS eastbound on Lake Ontario on Novem- ber 4th. By the 7th, she was reported in the St. Lawrence River with tugs YVON SIMARD and LAVALLEE, presumably headed for Sorel. *** The former Upper Lakes Shipping, Ltd. steamer THORNHILL, which has lain idle at Strathearne Terminal in Hamilton awaiting dismantling, was towed to Toronto on November 3rd to load burned soy beans at the Victory Mills elevator. *** By November 20th, American-flag lakers down the Welland Canal for St. Lawrence ore ports included Ford's ERNEST R. BREECH, JOHN DYKSTRA and WILLIAM CLAY FORD, Interlake's ELTON HOYT 2ND, HERBERT C. JACKSON and J. L. MAUTHE, Hanna's LEON FALK, JR., GEORGE M. HUMPHREY and JOSEPH H. THOMPSON and Bethlehem's SPARROWS POINT; these ten upper lakers are in addition to U.S. Steel's five 1942-built 'Supers' which have been trading down the Seaway since the beginning of the miners' strike and several units of the Columbia fleet which have loaded ore at Picton. *** Interlake's HARRY COULBY, converted to oil at Ashtabula during the last layup season and early summer, finally returned to service on November 27th when she departed for Duluth and a late-season grain cargo. —— = : JOHN DYKSTRA departs Lock #1, Welland Canal for the St. Lawrence. W.J.L. 2