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The Log (Continued) barge MARQUIS ROEN had been acquired by Roen from the Pittsburgh Steamship Company late in 1953 as the 1900-built steamer ROBERT W. E. BUNSEN, long a familiar unit in the Steel Trust fleet. While aboard the steamer DELTA QUEEN last April, in the New Orleans area of the Mississippi River, our member John N. Bascom of Toronto spotted the MARQUIS ROEN, stripped of her A-frame and self-unloader boom, forward cabins and stack. Her surviving deck cranes and rubber hull fenders suggest to Mr. Bascom that she is used to handle cargo from salt-water vessels. ** Peterson Builders, Sturgeon Bay launched the tuna seiner JANE on June 14th. Building for Venatun, S.A., of Caracas, she is a duplicate to the Peterson-built seiners NAPOLEON and CAPTAIN FRANK MEDINA, earlier constructed for Star-Kist interests. ** Slackened activity in the Summer navigation season, by reason of the economic doldrums on the U.S. side of the Lakes, is further pictured with word that the Davis Lock at the Soo will be closed down on July 13th, the Two Harbors-based tug EDNA G. is to be out of service for a 30-day period beginning July 14th and the Soo-based U.S. Steel supply boat OJIBWAY will be inoperative on Sundays. Conversely, the tempo of marine activity in the Canadian Great Lakes fleets this year remains virtually unchanged from last. ** In mid-June, the Chessie System announced plans to construct a $33 million ore transfer and ground storage facility at Toledo, presumably to replace the present Hulett ore- unloading operation there, now serviced primarily for Armco Steel Corporation by units of the Columbia fleet. The new ore dock will provide storage for 800,000 tons of pellets and allow for the movement of 4,500,000 tons of that commodity through the yard annually. Columbia had earlier announced intention to convert their major straight-deck carriers to self-unloaders. Bay Shipbuilding, Sturgeon Bay, will con- vert Columbia's COURTNEY BURTON this coming Winter, with similar rebuilds planned for their steamers ARMCO, MIDDLETOWN and RESERVE at yet undesignated shipyards. ** The impact of the 1,000-foot Lake ore-carrier continues to be manifest in the recent announcement by U.S. Steel of the sale of seven additional steamers for dismantling. The latest disposition of obsolete tonnage involves their veteran carriers EUGENE J. BUFFINGTON, D. M. CLEMSON, THOMAS F. COLE, ALVA C. DINKEY, D. G. KERR, GOVERNOR MILLER and J. P. MORGAN, JR., all of which have been laid up in the Duluth-Superior area for a number of years. Of particular interest in this sale is the 1938-built GOVERNOR MILLER, a relatively new hull, whose introduction, along with her sisters JOHN HULST, WILLIAM A. IRVIN and RALPH H. WATSON, heralded the steam turbine as a revolutionary propulsion unit in that era in Great Lakes transportation. These seven vessels are destined for breakers in Spain and are scheduled for move from the Duluth area to Quebec City in preparation for their respective trans-Atlantic tows before the end of the current navigation season. It will mark the first occasion in which a U.S. Steel Great Lakes ore carrier moves to foreign breakers in her original livery. The Hyman-Michaels yards at Duluth have been the site for dismantling of eight "Tin- Stackers" in recent years; namely the steamers GEORGE G. CRAWFORD, JAMES A, F, ‘LL WILLIAM J. FILBERT, WILLIAM P. PALMER, HENRY PHIPPS, HENRY H. ROGERS, PERCIVAL ROBERTS, JR., and RICHARD TRIMBLE. A final unit, WILLIAM B. SCHILLER, awaits the breakers there. ** USNS CATAWBA passed downbound at Detroit on June 11th on her delivery voyage from Marinette Marine (see Photo on page 4). "GREAT LAKES SHIPS WE REMEMBER" The publication and introduction of the 413-page pictorial work, "Great Lakes Ships We Remember", in the Spring of 1979, marked the culmination of the single most am- bitious project ever undertaken in the 36-year history of The Marine Historical Society of Detroit. The broad acceptance and popularity of the book reflect the high standard of statistical excellence and unusually fine quality of photographs selected to cover the scores of vessels included. The prestigeous North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH), the premier association of professional marine historians, has presented our Society with its 1979 John Lyman Book Award for our "Great Lakes Ships We Remember" as the best pub- lication covering North American maritime history based on the authors' own research. A copy of the award certificate is reproduced on page 6. We are indebted to NASOH for this recognition. Bill Luke Sees