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The Log (Continued further service. The pair are the J. R. SENSIBAR and SYLVANIA, whose careers began as straight-deckers in the Tomlinson Fleet. ** Halco's CARTIERCLIFFE HALL was downbound in the St. Clair River on May 24th following stern cabin rebuild at | ® Collingwood over the past Winter and Spring. In May, the U.S. Coast Guard re- leased its final report on the fire which destroyed her stern accommodation in Lake Superior on June 5th of last year. While the precise cause of the blaze was not determined, careless crew smoking or spontaneous combustion of stored paint were cited as the two most likely causes of the disaster. ** Between the Fall of 1951 and the following Spring, three converted C-4 Class ocean-built steamers began service for Republic Steel under Browning operation on the Lakes, their hulls moved to American Ship's South Chicago yard via the Mississippi. In recent years, this trio (TOM M. GIRDLER, THOMAS F. PATTON and CHARLES M. WHITE) has been operated under bare-boat charter to Cleveland-Cliffs Steamship Company, Republic's carrier. Since January of this year, with the move of Republic's ore-hauling contract to PM's Interlake Steamship Company, the fate of this trio of relatively small carriers has been in question. The steamer PATTON, laid up at Toledo since late last season, has remained in ordinary there, amid rumors of her impending defueling and tow to Lorain for further inactivity. The steamer GIRDLER has been moored at the old B & O coal dock up the Black River at Lorain since June 4th, stripped of her Cliffs' stack markings and side lettering. She was in service early in the year. The steamer WHITE cleared Cleveland's Cuyahoga River basin on June 17th, bound for lay-up along- side GIRDLER at Lorain, where she too has been stripped of her Cliffs' insignia. Continued on Page 4 © MONTREALAIS Photo by Editor Steel bulk freighter (C. 314394) built in 1962 at Montreal by Canadian Vickers (Hull #278) with the forward section built by George T. Davie & Sons, Ltd., Lauzon, Quebec for Papachristidis: 730 x 75 x 39; 17,647 gross tons. Sold to Upper Lakes Shipping, Ltd. in 1973.