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NEW FACES Two more vessels which entered service this year under new names are the MARIHILL and PIERSON INDEPENDENT. This concludes our New Faces feature fot 1979. MARLHILL Steel bulk freighter built in 1908 at Ecorse, Michigan by the Great Lakes Engineer- ing Works as a) HARRY A. BERWIND (Hull #40) US. 205072. 532 x 58.3 x 32; 7,815 g gross tons. Renamed b) HARVY H. BROWN in 1917. Sold Canadian in 1964 and renamed > c) PARKER EVANS C. 306052. Renamed d) MARIHILL in 1979. PIERSON INDEPENDENT Bob Campbell Photo Steel bulk freighter built in 1906 at Ecorse, Michigan by the Great Lakes Fngineering Works (Hull #22) US. 203628 as a) T. H. SHEADLE (1); 530 x 56.2 x 26.7; 7,238 gross e) tons. Renamed b) F. A. BAILEY in 1924. Renamed c) LA SALLE in 1930. Sold Canadian in 1966 and renamed d) MEAFORD (3) C. 325783. Renamed e) PIERSON INDEPENDENT in 1979. SE