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BARRYTON (S) - (US. 218179) still another Bethlehem tug (#2129) from the builder's Elizabeth yards. Made several trips into the Great Lakes in the early 1920's while operated for the Shipping Board by the Moran Towing & Transportation Co. Later acquired by Moran and renamed THOMAS E. MORAN. In later years carried the names CHETCO, THOMAS E. MORAN and NEPTUNE. Repowered in 1947 with a Fairbanks- Morse diesel engine of 1,400 horsepower. The end came on November 16, 1948 when this tug was sunk in collision with the C-2 freighter HERALD-OF-THE-MORNING, off the Columbia River bar, Oregon. Last owners were the Puget Sound Tug and Barge Co. BATHALUM (S) - (US. 218587) built at New York by the Providence Engineering Company, which company also built the engines. Another of the Ford acquisitions of 1925 BATHALUM was sold to the Russian Government in 1934 and was stationed at Vladivostok. Like so many USSR ships, there has been no official report since 1950. BAYMEAD (S) - (US. 219142) also built by Providence Engineering Company and ac- quired 1 by Ford in 1925 and sold to Russia in 1934. Not reported since 1950. BUTTERCUP (S) - (US. 218243) built by Bethlehem (Hull #2131) at Elizabeth and sold to Ford in 1925. Towed Ford barges on the Great Lakes until World War II when it was requisitioned and assigned to our Navy and renamed U.S.S. CHATOT (ATO-167). Pareeyecene the Soviet Government in 1949 and renamed ALBATROS. No report on it since 1954. (To be Continued) BATHALUM is getting her stack marking rearranged in this Ford photo taken while the tug was in winter layup. ake o