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THE LOG (Continued) McGarvey Shoal -- off Roscoff, Ontario on Lake Superior's north shore. The Cousteau divers filmed the EDMUND FITZGERALD wreckage in a manned under-water vehicle. The GUNILDA, which sank August 31, 1911, had grounded on the shoal earlier and was owned by William L., Harkness, son of an early Standard Oil Company mogul, and had been built in Leith, Scotland in 1897. Jean-Michael Cousteau later speculated that the 729-foot FITZGERALD may have broken in two on the surface prior to her foundering. He reported that damage to her starboard bow had obliterated the letters EDMUN, suggesting surface impact in the heavy seas with the vessel's separated stern section. The absence of some 100 feet of the vessel's mid-section might possibly be explained by battering on the Lake's surface. The CALYPSO findings, the first undertaken by manned divers, surely add new dimensions to the conjecture following the loss of this The Cousteau TV presentation of this Lake Superior expedition is scheduled for showing a year from now. ** The 4th Annual "Tashmoo-Toot" whistle blow was held at Chuck Muer's River Crab restaurant at St. Clair this past Labor Day. From its introduction in 1977, this affair has grown to significant proportion with entrants for this year's event having come from such notable steamers as CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, CITY OF BUFFALO, CITY OF ERIE, NORTH AMERICAN, SOUTH AMERICAN, Columbia's BUCKEYE and JOSEPH H. FRANTZ, Pittsburgh's WILLIAM EDENBORN, Cleveland-Tankers' METEOR, Erie Sand's SIDNEY E. SMITH, JR., Gartland's FRANK E. TAPLIN and Interlake's VERONA plus the tugs CHRIS M. and ROGER. Also included were tooters from assorted train, factory and Mississippi and Monongahela River steamers. Absent from this year's participa- tion was the Bob-Lo steamer COLUMBIA, whose new owners have seen fit to discontinue the annual July 4th and Labor Day cruises from Detroit to Port Huron and return. This year's honoree was Bob Lee, recently retired curator of the Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Belle Isle. Your "Log" editor salutes the annual Tashmoo Toot's prime movers, Chuck Muer and marine artist Jim Clary, for their sponsorship of this color- ful annual blast. ** While there has been no definite confirmation that the Soo River steamer PIERSON INDEPENDENT was moved overseas for scrapping, it is known that she was under tow eastbound in the Seaway on May 3rd, outbound from Hamilton. ** Boco's self-unloader steamer JOHN A. KLING, recently drydocked at Toledo, has been found unfit for further service and will be dismantled. ** While Columbia's self- unloaders JOSEPH H. FRANTZ and W. W. HOLLOWAY have been returned to service recently, the plight of the U.S. economy continues to be manifest in the layup of additional units of U.S. Steel's fleet. Included are the steamers ARTHUR M. ANDERSON, CASON J. CALLAWAY, PHILIP R. CLARKE, ROGERS CITY and T. W. ROBINSON. Future post-1980 service of Cleveland-Cliffs' steamers WILLIS B. BOYER, RAYMOND H. REISS and WILLIAM P. SNYDER, JR. is doubtful, according to authoritative sources. Huron Cement has laid up their steamers J. B. FORD and LEWIS G. HARRIMAN at Alpena. ** New owner of the former Mohawk Navigation steamers SENNEVILLE and SILVER ISLE has been identified as Pioneer Shipping, Ltd., an affiliate of the Richardson grain interests. The latter vessel will emerge in the 1981 season in the orange-and-yellow livery sported this season by SENNEVILLE, following her survey. ** In news of other scrap-bound vessels, the former U.S. Steel bulker GOVERNOR MILLER, enroute to Spanish breakers, was found to have taken on 14 feet of water in her engine room during her tow down Lake Huron on September 9th. She was taken into Alpena for pumping by Massey Marine Salvage. By the 15th, she was moored alongside the storage barge KINSMAN ENTERPRISE at the Seaway Terminal at Port Huron. In the early hours of the 28th, she was downbound at Detroit, nine hours ahead of the steamer D. G. KERR, also headed for Spanish breakers. The KERR, remembered as the fastest-loaded ore-carrier (12,507 tons at Two Harbors on September 7, 1921 in just over 16 minutes), had been safely delivered to her Port Colborne pier by September 30th, behind the tug TUSKAR, owned by McAsphalt Company of Toronto. The KERR's departure from Hyman-Michaels scrap dock at Duluth on September 23rd, where she took on her scrap metal cargo, had been marred by her collision with the harbor entrance's north pier to the Duluth Ship Canal, causing substantial damage to surface and sub-surface construction. ** U.S. Steel's newest entry, the Lorain-built 1,000-footer EDGAR B. SPEER, was upbound at Detroit on her maiden voyage at noon on September 20th. Her initial Lake Huron transit involved further equipment testing. She was upbound at the Soo at 9:00 A.M. on the 22nd. Her construction at Lorain's American Ship Building Company, plagued by the long strike there, gives her the distinction of having been longest from keel-laying-to- delivery of any Amship Laker. Her final entry-into-service this Fall ironically coincides with the departure of U.S. Steel's veteran bulkers EUGENE J. BUFFINGTON, -Continued on Page 6- grand Laker.