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HINDMAN, BLANCHE HINDMAN and MARTHA HINDMAN will sail as MARIHILL, MELDRUM BAY, LAC STE. ANNE and LAC des ILES respectively, these melifluous new vessel passage entries to reflect the owner's mining and woodlands property holdings. Operation of the fifth ex-Hindman vessel, the HELEN EVANS, is uncertain and she will be held in reserve at the season's onset. ** Port Weller Dry Docks' HULL 65 will be christened CANADIAN ENTERPRISE for Upper Lakes Shipping upon her completion. The christening date for the builder's HULL 64, the CANADIAN TRANSPORT, has been announced for April 7th. ** Another christening, this at Bay Shipbuilding, will take place on May 8th when Columbia's FRED R. WHITE, JR., is officially named. Bay also has announced that its HULL 724 will be another 635-foot selfunloader for American SS. Co. ¥** Collingwood Shipyards’ 658-footer building for Algoma Central Marine will be named ALGOPORT. ** Conversion of Medusa Cement's HULL 3 for the cement trade will include construction of a conventional self-unloading boom and bucket system which will permit the vessel's use in other bulk cargo trades. No shipyard has yet been designated for the rebuild of this 1943-built Maritime-class Laker. ** Huron Cement is said to be planning the conversion of their steamer S. T. CRAPO to diesel power and the lengthening of J. A. W. IGLEHART. ** On April 1st, National Steel Corporation of Canada, Ltd., was scheduled to close and mothball its Moose Mountain mine and pellet plant near Capreol, Ontario and close its loading dock at Depot Harbor. ** In February, the Canadian eorern ment announced its intention to continue the 20% shipbuilding subsidy. ** Wall Street Journal of February 12th reported that American Shipbuilding had settled its labor disputes at the Toledo and South Chicago facilities. No end is in sight, however, at Lorain. ** Fraser Shipyard, Superior, will install a stern thruster in the WILLIAM CLAY FORD during her lengthening from 647 feet to 767 feet there this lay-up season. ** Soo River's steamer H. C. HEIMBECKER would seem to have a renewed lease on the future with news of installation of a new galley this past Winter at Midland. ** The Canadian Coast Guard decommissioned its 50-year- old icebreaker N. B. MCLEAN at Quebec City on February 7th. Plans are afoot to save her as a museum there. ** No buyer found, the PAUL L. TIETJEN's Skinner engine has been scrapped at Ashtabula's bone yard. ** Another candidate for dismantling may be the Strait's ferry CHIEF WAWATAM, whose high operating and crew costs and need for renovation appear to doom her future beyond her March 31st service extension date. Her use as a barge is considered a possibility. ** Rumors abound that Canadian Steamship Lines' HOCHELAGA may move to Westdale Shipping before long, replacing FERNDALE, recently sold to the breakers. ** The fifth and sixth new U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker tugs destined for Great Lakes' service have been identified as NEAH BAY and MORRO BAY and are due for July and October, 1980 delivery. ** The severity of Chicago's winter weather caused Inland Steel to send the EDWARD L. RYERSON to Milwaukee in February with steel products to serve area customers deprived of normal rail service. ** Upper Lakes Shipping's CANADIAN PROGRESS is said to be in need of new propulsion equipment. Her engine renewal will undoubtedly be done at Port Weller Dry Docks' facility at Lock #1 on the Welland Canal. ANNOUNCEMENTS The annual dinner meeting will be held on Saturday, April 28, 1979 at the Thomas Riverview Inn, 475 Water St., Marine City (next to the ferry dock). A buffet -- including chicken, ham, and sauerkraut and kielbasa -- will be served for $8 per person. The enclosed reservations card should be returned promptly to Fr. Donahue. Harry Wolfe will be the speaker. The May meeting will be held on the 19th at the Arts & History Museum in Port Huron at 1:30 P.M. Jack Goodrich will be the speaker.