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& The Log (Continued) Duluth had completed 75% of the dismantling on the former Pittsburgh Steamship Com- pany flagship JAMES A. FARRELL. ** Bay Shipbuilding, Sturgeon Bay was the scene of the April 16th christening of American Steamship Company's (Boco) new 728-foot motorship AMERICAN MARINER. Bay Ship has been awarded the contract to convert Columbia's steamer COURTNEY BURTON to self-unloader this coming Winter. ** J. W. Westcott Company resumed its Detroit River mailboat operations on April 9th to be- gin its 107th season of service to the Great Lakes' fleets. ** Davie Shipbuilding, Lauzon, Quebec will build an 11,000-ton tanker for its Branch Lines division for August, 1981 delivery. The ice-strengthened carrier, to cost $21 million will have a 91,000-barrel capacity, substantially greater than any of the fleet's present units. ** Eastern Canada Towing Ltd's new tug POINTE SEPT ILES was christened at Collingwood Shipyards on April 10th. ** The sale of Canada Steamship Lines' package freighter ESKIMO to Quebec and Ontario Transportation is off. Q&0 failed to exercise its purchase option. ** Seaway Towing, Inc., owner-operators of the Soo-based pilot tugs STE. MARIE I and STE. MARIE II, has purchased the 95-foot steam tug DOLOMITE from U.S. Steel. Towed from Calcite to the American Soo in early April, the craft is said to be slated for diesel repowering there. The Two Harbors-based EDNA G., owned by Duluth, Mesabi and Iron Range Railway, will thus survive as the last coal-fired steam tug in Great Lakes' service. ** CSL's steamer HOCHELAGA lost her sel f-unloading conveyor boom when it collapsed at a Windsor stone dock on April 22nd.. ** A new marine bunkering dock has opened on the Canadian side of the Detroit River approxi- mately a mile below the Ambassador Bridge. The facility is owned by Sterling Fuels. ** The Ann Arbor Railroad ferry ARTHUR K. ATKINSON is under refit at Frankfort follow- ing engine renovation and rebuild. After six years' idleness, she is scheduled for service in May. ** Absent from this Spring's Boco appointment list is their steamer MCKEE SONS, laid up at Toledo. Columbia's steamers ASHLAND and THOMAS WILSON remain in ordinary in Toledo's Frog Pond amid rumors of their sale to Canadian fleet opera- tors. ** Upper Lakes Shipping's lengthened motorship CANADIAN NAVIGATOR was moved from the building berth to the fitout dock at Port Weller Dry Docks' yard on April 9th. Her christening took place ten days later. ** The pilot house off Cleveland Cliffs" grounding-wrecked steamer FRONTENAC has been donated to the Great Lakes Maritime Academy at Traverse City. It will be recalled that her original pilot house was presented to the marine museum at Fairport. ** Pitts Engineering Construction Ltd. of Toronto have been using the former Westdale Shipping steamer PINEDALE as a break- water near Wesleyville, Ontario in connection with the construction of a power eae A recent report states that the vessel was refloated earlier this Spring. ** replica of the 1775-built sloop WELCOME, built by McCutcheon Boat Works of nee at the site of Fort Michilimackinac, was slated for launching at the Macinaw City Marina on May 10th. The 45-ton craft measures 55' x 16' x 7'. PIERSON INDEPENDENT Photo Courtesy Thomas W. Wilson Purposely run aground in the Brockville Narrows in the St. Lawrence River at Long Beach, Ontario on October 28th after striking bottom. Both lifeboats were launched, along with a liferaft, as seen in this photo. The tug DANIEL MCALLISTER can be seen at the steamer's stern. Sa5kS