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The Log (Continued) be further tested in the Spring using Carryore, Ltd.'s 715-foot steamer MENIHEK LAKE. She is wintering in the St. Catharines area on the canal in preparation for this role. Arrangements for the use of the salty FEDERAL CLYDE for shunter testing reportedly have fallen through. ** Erie Navigation Company's cement-carrier motorvessel LOC BAY has been acquired by Medusa Cement. Meanwhile, Medusa has taken back its steamer PIONEER, under charter this past season to Cleveland-Cliffs. Her name has been retained for possible future use by Cliffs. The 1943-built Maritime-class steamer is in lay-up in the Frog Pond at Toledo this winter, along with another Maritime-class vessel, Columbia's THOMAS WILSON, which is rumored to be headed to Canadian operators in 1980. ** Bay Shipbuilding laid the keel for their HULL 724 on November 12th. She is being completed as a 635-footer for Boco. No name for her has yet been announced. ** Boco's self- unloader steamer CONSUMERS POWER may be bareboat chartered to Erie Sand Steamship Com- pany for 1980. ** Detroit attorney, Victor Hansen, on December 7th instituted suit against the Augsbury Corporation of Ogdensburg, New York on behalf of the families of seven crewmen killed in the fire aboard Halco's motorship CARTIERCLIFFE HALL in Lake Super- ior last June. Also named as defendants were U.S. Steel Corp. and its subsidiary, Navios Corporation, which apparently were involved in the sale of the vessel to Halco in 1977. The new owners of the venerable motorship TUXPANCLIFFE, formerly Q&0's BLACK RIVER, have been identified as the Cayman Shipping Corporation of Georgetown, Grand Cayman Island. ** Another former Q&0 steamer, HELEN EVANS, has been loaded with a winter cargo of soya beans at Victory Soya Mills, Ltd's Toronto elevator. An authoritative source suggests that the old Laker may be acquired by the mill as a permanent storage hull there. ** The J. W. Westcott Company's Detroit mail delivery service closed for its 106th season at 8:00 AM on December 17th. ** Soo River Company's newly-acquired steamer GEORGE D. GOBLE will be equipped with the oil burners from their grounding-damaged steamer PIERSON INDEPENDENT during this Winter's layup at Hamilton. ** In a significant departure from recent new dry-cargo vessel building contracts on the Lakes, Collingwood Shipyards has recently been awarded an order for a 730-foot straight-decker for Nipigon Transport, Ltd. Continued on Page 6 © FRONTENAC (Photo Courtesy Duluth New-Tribune) - Aground on Pettit Shoal, Silver Bay, Minnesota, November 23rd, 1979. Steel bulk freighter built in 1923 at Ecorse, Michigan by the Great Lakes Engineering Works (HULL #244). US 223078 - 590 x 60 x 27.8; 8,158 g.t. 5.5