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GENERAL ORLANDO M. POE Fr. Dowling Collection Steel bulk freighter (US. 86501) built in 1900 at Cleveland, Ohio by the American Shipbuilding Co. (Hull #81); 470,0 x 50.0 x 29.0; 5,619 gross tons. Made into a barge and renamed b) WYCHEM 104 in 1955. Scrapped at Hamilton, Ontario in 1956. Selvick Marine Towing Corporation's 98-foot diesel tug LAUREN CASTEL sank in 400 feet of water one and a half miles northeast of Lee's Pointe in lower Grand Traverse Bay at approximately 1:30 a.m. on November 5th after colliding with the tanker AMOCO WISCONSIN. The tug's Chief Engineer was lost in the sinking, which occurred as the LAUREN CASTLE was pre- paring to take the tanker in tow. The Amoco steamer had been disabled two and a half miles off the tip of Cat's Head Point in Lake Michigan by a main engine malfunctioning while enroute from Whiting, Indiana to Traverse City. She was moved into the bay by two U.S. Coast Guard units. Oil leakage from the sunken tug and the damaged tanker was a problem for some time following the mishap. ** Another tug, Bultema Dock and Dredge Corporation's 43-foot SOUTH HAVEN, foundered off Michigan City in lower Laker Michigan on October 28th when a hull plate was lost. The tug's lone crewman was safely re- trieved. ** In yet another incident, the Straits rail ferry CHIEF WAWATAM struck the concrete dock at Mackinaw City on October 27th sustaining bow damage estimated at approximately $90,000. The steamer will be repaired at her St. Ignace dock. *k Seaway Towing's grain barge PETER A. B. WIDENER may winter in the St. Lawrence River at either Montreal or Sorel. She was involved in a collision with the wine tanker RHOME at Montreal in early November. Details at this point are sketchy. Meanwhile, the company's other grain storage barge, the CLARENCE B. RANDALL, has ** The United States Coast Guard's newest icebreaker She will Bill Luke, Editor been loaded at Milwaukee. tug, NEAH BAY, was formally commissioned at Cleveland on October 25th. be stationed at Sturgeon Bay, rather than Charlevoix as was earlier reported in this colum. ** Columbia's steamer WILLIAM A. REISS has been loaded with storage grain at Toledo, presumably for delivery down the seaway in the spring. - Continued on Page 6 - =, Sys