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E. M. FORD at Milwaukee Photo by H. Mensing The Log (Continued. Montreal. ** The Welland Canal closed for the season at midnight on December 29th. Last vessels to clear the waterway were ALGOPORT at Lock 8, CANADOC at Lock 1. Major projects being undertaken in the canal this Winter are the resurfacing of the west wall of Lock 1 and the removal of the Bridge 12 abutments at Port Robinson. The American Soo closed on January 15th with final passage being U.S. Steel's ENDERS M. VOORHEES down at 17:30 hours. ** Improperly-stored paint in an area near the “crew's quarters may have been the cause of the June 5th fire aboard Halco's CARTIERCLIFFE HALL on Lake Superior. ** The Canadian government's 20% shipbuilding subsidy_has been extended to June 30th of this year. ** U.S. Steel is installing sewage treatment plants aboard the following units of their fleet this Winter: AFFLECK, ANDERSON, AVERY, CALCITE II, CALLAWAY, CLARKE, HULST, IRVIN, JOHNSON, LAMONT, PARGNY, ROGERS CITY, SLOAN, STANLEY, TAYLOR, THOMAS, WATSON and WILLIAMS. The notable exception to this roster is the self-unloader T. W. ROBINSON. ** The role of the steamer HELEN EVANS as a soya-bean storage barge at victory Mills, Toronto proved short-lived as the vessel was found to be taking on a starboard list by mid-December. Loaded the first week of November, she was unloaded and towed out of Toronto on December 29th to Hamilton where she is now moored near the scrap dock at Strathearne Terminal where the steamer THORNHILL and motorship PIC R. still remain awaiting demolition. ** Triad Salvage, Ashtabula completed the scrapping of HENRY STEIN- BRENNER on January 21st. ** Western Metals, Thunder Bay completed dismantling of the former Goderich-based grain storage hull K. A. POWELL in December. ** Hyman- Michaels has about finished the cutting on the former Pittsburgh sisterships PERCIVAL ROBERTS, JR., and RICHARD TRIMBLE at the scrapper's West Duluth yard, while dismantling of another Pittsburgher, WILLIAM P. PALMER, is being completed at Hyman-Michaels' main facility in Duluth. ** Marine Salvage Ltd. wrecking crews had reduced the GEORGE M. STEINBRENNER to only her stern section at Ramey's Bend by late January. Marine Salvage's Welland Canal shunter test-vessel MARINSAL was towed from Port Weller to Hamilton on December 18th. Present plans call for her to be towed to European breakers in the Spring, possibly in tandem with either ROYALTON or J. F. SCHOELLKOPF, JR., the latter's sale by Erie Sand Steamship having been for- malized on January 18th. ** (Continued on Page 6)