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BADGER (US. 220949) was built at Benton Harbor, Michigan by the Dachel-Carter Shipbuilding Company, and her engines were built by the Montague Iron Works, at Montague, Michigan. In 1922 this tug became the DALZELLITE as a unit of the Dalzell fleet of New York. DALZELLITE served her owners for twenty-eight years in the New York area and was junked in 1950. BEAGLE (US. 219596) was a product of the Burger Boat Company of Manitowoc, Wis- consin, and was equipped with a Montague Iron Works engine. She passed to the Meseck Towing and Transportation Company of New York in 1922 as MARGARET L. MESECK. In 1955, the Meseck tugs became part of the Moran Fleet and MARGARET L. MESECK became the HOWARD MORAN. This vessel was listed as "Out of Documentation" in 1964. BEAR (US. 219483) was built by Leathem & Smith at Sturgeon Bay and her engines came from the Marine Iron Works of Chicago. BEAR served the Cornell Steamboat Company of Albany, New York without change of name from 1922 until final dis- mantling in 1949. BISON (US. 219079) was also a Leathem & Smith hull with Marine Iron Works engines. In 1923 she was acquired from the USSB by the Atlantic Towing Company of Savannah, Georgia and renamed HENRY W. GRADY. However, she returned to New York in 1928 as a member of the Tracy tug fleet named MARY T. TRACY. Seaboard Towing Company operated this tug after 1949 until 1953 when it was dismantled. (To be continued) MARY T. TRACY Luffbarry Photo Cleveland-Cliffs has abandoned plans to utilize the stern section and steam turbine power plant from their steamer FRONTENAC at Duluth. She is for sale there on an "as-is, where-is" basis. Meanwhile, Cliffs has acquired the contract to haul iron ore pellets for Envirodyne, Inc.'s Wisconsin Steel Cor- poration. The latter's 600-foot steamer MAXINE is Bill Luke, Editor not scheduled to run under the new arrangement. ** While bow and cargo hold fire damage to Boco's self- unloader NICOLET was extensive, her repair and rebuild will be undertaken. ** Cargo hold core samplings taken in Huron Cement's steamer E. M. FORD reveal pooner formation up to 26 inches. Estimates to rebuild the vessel are said to be in the $6MM range, a heady figure for an 83-year-old Laker. Refloating of the ee sunk carrier was completed at Milwaukee by McAllister Towing and Salvage Ltd., (Continued on Page 5)