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Ford Motor Company's steamer ERNEST R. BREECH was towed from her River Rouge moorings to Cargill's East Side elevator on the Maumee River at Toledo on October 9th by Gaelic Tugboat Company's SHANNON and KINSALE. She will winter there with storage grain, marking the first time a unit of the Ford fleet has been used for this Bill Luke, Editor purpose. Ford began fitout of their motorvessel BENSON FORD in late October, with her sailing set for November 5. **k The on-again, off-again She has been in ordinary at the Rouge since late July plans to place Bethlehem's new 1,000-foot BURNS HARBOR in service this season finally got the green light with her maiden voyage up at the Soo on September 29th. She is the 13th 1,000-footer to enter Great Lakes service **k The U.S. Coast Guard's fifth new ice-breaker tug, NEAH BAY, was inbound at Quebec City on her She will replace the SUNDEW at The MESQUITE will go from delivery trip from Tacoma on October 14th. ' newly-acquired motorvessel Charlevoix. The SUNDEW will be reassigned to Duluth. Duluth to Galveston, Texas. ** The Groupe Desgagnes MATHILDA DESGAGNES, formerly CSL's ESKIMO, was equipped with two deck cranes at Quebec City in mid October. ** Columbia's veteran self-unloader W. W. HOLLOWAY is said to be in her last season of operation this Fall. ** Westdale Shipping's crippled self-unloader BROOKDALE was towed from Port Colborne to Port Maitland by the tug GLENADA during the week of October 13 where she will be dismantled by Newman and Sons. The former Westdale self-unloader PINEDALE is presently being scrapped at the United Metals dock at Hamilton. ** The parade of Lakers to overseas breakers for this season concluded with the departure of the U.S. Steel carriers ALVA C. DINKEY and GOVERNOR MILLER behind the Fednav tug KATHY B. from Quebec City on October 18th. The Canadian tug TUSKER was upbound at Quebec on the 17th on her return to Toronto from Sydney, Nova Scotia where she had delivered another former U.S. Steel bulker, the steamer D. G. KERR. ** The former Misener steamer ROYALTON and Welland Canal test-vessel MARINSAL arrived at La Spezia, Italy on June 25th. The pair had cleared Quebec behind the tug HANSEAT on May 3lst. In another European arrival for breakers in Spain, the former Soo River Company bw steamer PIERSON INDEPENDENT put in at Santander on June llth. The former Erie Sand self-unloader J. F. SCHOELLKOPF, JR., reportedly cleared Quebec for overseas tow on June 27th. The tandem tow of the Q&0 steamer HELEN EVANS and Upper Lakes Shipping steamer THORNHILL left Quebec behind the ocean tug CAPT. IOANNIS S. on September 17th. *k Following her September dry-docking at Toledo, Boco's steamer JOHN A. KLING was granted a short reprieve for four more trips in the local self-unloading salt and stone trades. ** An engine room explosion aboard Misener's steamer RALPH MISENER in the lower St. Lawrence River on August 20th claimed the life of her Chief Engineer and seriously injured three other crew members ** The Lake Michigan carferry SPARTAN has been laid up and partially stripped at Ludington, where she is for sale by the Chessie System. ** The 1921-built sandsucker AMERICAN, long idle on Lake Michigan, was towed out of Manistee on July 1lth by the tug LENNY B., enroute to Calumet Marine Towing Company's Chicago docks where she will be reduced to a barge. ** There have been a number of groundings in the St. Lawrence River near Brockville Two more occurred in mid-October aueeuving and the "Crossover", the past two seasons. CSL's NIPIGON BAY, which sustained a 100-foot rip in her bottom, and Groupe Desssenes’ ROLAND DESGAGNES, whose stranding halted traffic in the area for some time. Repai: to NIPIGON BAY have been undertaken at the Thunder Bay shipyard, where CSL's ae HOCHELAGA will receive a replacement of her self-unloader boom over the Winter lay-up *k Upper Lakes Shipping's steamer JAMES NORRIS, idle at Toronto during July and August by slackened business activity, was towed to Port Weller Dry Docks' facility at Lock 1 on the Welland Canal in early September in preparation for conversion to self-unloader over the Winter. Upper Lakes' new 730-foot Laker-Salty on the es ways at the Port Weller yard is to be christened CANADIAN PIONEER. Bay Ship' HULL 724, the 735-footer completing at Sturgeon Bay for American Steamship ce It now appears that the carrier, to be kK (Boco), was to have been named CUYAHOGA. used in the transport of ore pellets between Lorain and Republic Steel's Cuyahoga River plants, will be named AMERICAN REPUBLIC. ** It is apparent now that when Seaway Towing Company acquired U.S. Steel's steamer PETER A. B. WIDENER at Duluth (Continued on Page 6) A Cece.