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Two of U.S. Steel's 1942-built "Supers" recently carried milestone cargoes. The LEON FRASER loaded an ore pellet cargo at Port Cartier on October 23rd - containing the one millionth ton of that product shipped there since completion of the pelletizing William J. Luke, Editor plant at the port this summer. The ENDERS M. VOORHEES arrived at Lorain from Duluth on November 20th with the 100 millionth ton of ore pellets produced by Big Steel's Minntac facility at Mountain Iron, Minnesota. * Conversion of Upper Lakes Shipping's ST. LAWRENCE NAVIGATOR from a 647-foot salty to 730-foot laker will be done at Port Weller Ship- yards as Hull #66. The project, to be begun next August, will incorporate construc- tion of a new 630-foot bow and midbody section. The rebuild is similar to that being undertaken this Winter on Upper Lake's ST. LAWRENCE PROSPECTOR at St. John Shipbuild- ing and Drydock Co., Ltd., St. John, New Brunswick. The two "new" lakers may re-enter serviced renamed CANADIAN NAVIGATOR and CANADIAN PROSPECTOR. * The strike at Fraser Shipyards, Superior, was settled on September 5th. The walk out lasted 14 weeks. * The former Straits' ferry VACATIONLAND will not be returning to the Lakes. The Michi- gan State Highway Commission has concluded that there would be insufficient railway and vehicular traffic to oblige her operation in the Straits and between Detour and Manitoulin Island. * New owners of the former Boco steamer CHARLES C. WEST, await- ing scrappers' torches at Buffalo, have been identified as Union Pipe and Machinery, Itd., of Montreal. * Davie's tanker ARSENE SIMARD will be sold to Halco, conditioned on inspection at Canadian Vickers' drydock at Montreal on December 15th. At that time she will be named GATINEAU TRANSPORT according to the latest reports.* Ship Repairs' tanker SECOLA will be withdrawn from service permanently at this season's close. * Scrapping operations were underway in mid-November on the former Kinsman steamer HARRY L. ALLEN at Duluth by Hyman-Nichaels. * Bay Shipbuilding, Sturgeon Bay launched Hull #722, a 635-footer for Columbia Transportation, on November 16th. * The first of the Welland Canal remote-controlled "shunters" was completed recently by E. S. Fox of Niagara Falls. The 3,600 h.p. unit will be used in tests with MARINSAL, the decommissioned former laker PETER ROBERTSON (ii), in the Canal next season. * a The former Imperial oil tanker IMPERIAL LONDON had been renamed TEGUCIGALPA at Ramey's Bend in the Welland Canal on November 13th, being readied for service under the Honduran flag in South American trade. * Member, Ron Pennington, recently alerted Goderich, Ontario officials to the forgotten graves there of five unidenti- fied sailors who perished in the Big Storm of 1913. Work has been undertaken to renovate their gravesites. * The scrapper LEADALE was reported under tow of the tug TECHNO VENTURE eastbound on Lake Ontario on November 12th. * Portending another end-of-season rush from the Seaway, a total of 157 salties were reported above St. Lambert Lock at Montreal on November 16th. This compares with 119 such vessels at the same date in 1977. * The former U.S. Coast Guard cutter WOODBINE has been sold by the City of Cleveland to Lake Towing Company of Avon, Ohio for commercial use. * Algoma Central's new 730-foot ALGOBAY which passed up at the Soo on her initial voyage there October 30th, was involved in a collision off Sept Iles on November 14th. Departing there with a pellet cargo for Sydney, Nova Scotia, she collided with the 90,000 ton Italian-flag ore carrier CIELO BIANCO. Coincidentially, the tug POINTE MARGUERITE, which was towing the big salty, was crushed between the two carriers and sank. The tug's mate and engineer were lost. The ALGOBAY sustained substantial damage to her port bow. She proceeded to Ashtabula where her partial ore cargo was discharged. Repairs are being undertaken at Canadian Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd's Thunder Bay yard. She will not return to service until the onset of the 1979 season. * Rumors persist that Kinsman Marine Transit has acquired U.S. Steel's steamer WILLIAM A. McGONAGLE. While the transfer may in fact be effected, the sale had not officially taken place as of December 4th. X