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THE LOG (Continued) ** The American Soo locks will close for the season on December 31st. The Cana- dian lock at the Soo will be shut down on November 28th. ** The scrapping of the former U.S. Steel steamer JAMES A. FARRELL has been completed at the Hyman- Michaels yard at Duluth. The lower hull sections of the steamers PERCIVAL ROBERTS, JR., and RICHARD TRIMBLE remain to be dismantled there. Next in line for the breakers at Duluth would appear to be the steamer WILLIAM B. SCHILLER. ** Seaway Towing's tug DOLOMITE, acquired from U.S. Steel last winter and moved from Rogers City to the American Soo, is now moored at the Twin City Dry Dock and Marine facility where her conversion from steam to diesel power will be undertaken this winter. Her steam engine has been donated to the Great Lakes Maritime Academy at Traverse City. ** Halco's 730-foot motorship OTTERCLIFFE HALL, the last straight- decker built on the Great Lakes (1969), will be converted to a self-unloader this winter at Thunder Bay. Her rebuild, unfortunately, will be similar to CSL's FRONTENAC and Halco's FRANKCLIFFE HALL. At Port Weller Dry Docks' facility on the Welland Canal, Upper Lakes Shipping's steamer JAMES NORRIS will emerge next spring as a self-unloader with her reconstruction said to be similar in design to Ford Motor Company's motorvessel HENRY FORD II. ** Bultema Marine Transportation's tug JOHN ROEN V will take the barge MAITLAND NO. 1 to Pensacola, Florida. Both tug and barge have been sold into Panamanian registry and will operate between Panama City, Florida and Mexico. The barge was loaded with a scrap cargo at Holland, Michigan prior to the pair's departure for Quebec City, where the new owners took delivery. The barge was used in the salvage of the steamer GEORGE M. HUMPHREY in the Straits of Mackinaw in 1944. ** Q&0's handsome steamer LAC DES ILES failed her inspection at Port Weller and was moved to layup at Toronto on November 19th. ** Bay Shipbuilding, Sturgeon Bay, on November 6th, announced receipt of two contracts for the building of salt water barges. The first, a 610-footer, will go to Beker Shipping of Greenwich, Connecticut on her completion in early 1982. The second, a 550-footer, will go to Universal American Barge Corporation, also of \ Greenwich, next August. The projects are Bay Ship's HULL #728 and #729 respectively: ‘ + LAUREN CASTLE Photo by Fr. Dowling Steel tug (US. 203337) built in 1906 at Chester, Pennsylvania by the Deleware River Iron Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. (Hull #335) as a) GENERAL G. M. SORRELL 92.0 x 21.5 x 18.8, 169 gross tons. Renamed b) MCALLISTER BROS. in 1960 and re- named c) NORTH AMERICAN in 1968. Came to the Great Lakes. Renamed d) LAUREN CASTLE in 1970. Rebuilt in 1963 to 97.9 x 21.5 x 10.8, 180 gross tons. Sank November 5, 1980 in Grand Traverse Bay. Gwe