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The Log (Continued) for July, 1981 delivery. The last such Laker so constructed was Halco’s OTTERCLIFFE HALL, a product of the Davie yard at Lauzon, Quebec in 1969. ** Operation of the St. Mary's River automobile ferry SUGAR ISLANDER was transferred from Poirier Marine to Eastern Upper Peninsula Transportation Authority (Transpo) effective January lst. ** The storm— wrecked salty PHOTINIA, earlier sold for dismantling at Chicago, was towed from there to g Kewaunee, arriving on November 14th where her scrapping will presumably be undertaken. *k Hall Corporation Shipping, Ltd., whose corporate name was recently changed to Halco, Ltd., has purchased the 15,000-ton salt-water chemical tanker BIRK from Norwegian owners, and renamed her COASTAL TRANSPORT. She will be chartered back to her previous owners until mid-year for operation between the Gulf of Mexico and Western Europe. Another chemical tanker, the Norwegian-flag LONN, is said to be in Halco's plans for similar use. Both vessels are scheduled for Halco operation in the Lakes and St. Lawrence River ser- vice in season; on salt water during the Winter months. ** Tentative agreement has been reached by National Gypsum Company to sell its Huron Cement Division to General Dynamics' Material Service Corporation. On December 24th, Huron's 82-year-old steamer E. M. FORD was severely damaged at her temporary winter-quarters dock at the Seaway Storage Terminal on Jones Island at Milwaukee when high winds and waves broke the vessel from her moorings. Loaded with 7,000 tons of storage cement, the steamer sustained a 24-foot gash in her bow and numerous hull cracks while being battered against the steel-faced concrete dock there. The steamer's stern sank to the slip's 28-foot depth. The possibility of her return to service in the 1980 season is highly questionable. ** In yet another early-season layup incident, Boco's self-unloader motorship NICOLET sustained heavy damage to her forward cabins and cargo holds as result of a fire which broke out at the Hans Hansen Welding facility on Toledo's Maumee River on December 30th. Columbia's steamer ASHLAND, moored alongside the 75-year-old NICOLET, escaped any serious damage. 2a [Saar Ui CONSUMERS ees. © 8 a) CONSUMERS POWER Photo by Pete Worden Steel freighter built in 1927 at Lorain, Ohio by the American Shipbuilding Co. (HULL #796). US 226276 - 586.3 x 60.2 x 27.9; 8,004 gt. as a) GEORGE M. HUMPHREY (i). Sunk in coll: in the Straits of Mackinac with the steamer D. M. CLEMSON, June 15, 1943. Raised and re: covered September 10, 1944. Renamed b) CAPTAIN JOHN ROEN in 1945. Converted to self- unloader in 1948 and renamed c) ADAM E. CORNELIUS (ii). Renamed d) CONSUMERS POWER (iii) in 1958. =N6Ce