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THE LOG (Continued) had arrived at Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia on Christmas Eve behind the tug JOHN ROEN V, renamed TRIO BRAVO, for refuge in bad weather. The tug then proceeded alone to Port Everglades, where she sank on January 21st while being fueled. The barge, under tow of another unidentified tug, iced up, capsized and sank in the Atlantic between Rockland and Yarmouth, Maine at an earlier date. The pair was to have been used to haul scrap from Port Everglades to Progreso, Mexico, on the northern coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. There are scattered reports that the Lake barge HILDA was also involved in these moves of the former Roen tug and barge to the south. ** The former Lake railferry PERE MARQUETTE 21, in use in the Caribbean as the roll-on/roll-off barge CONSOLIDATOR, was lost off Honduras on November 12th in Hurricane Jean. She departed fresh water in the Fall of 1976. *k «©The tanker barge LIQUILASSIE, being pushed by the tug TUSKER, hit the Gandy Bridge at Tampa on February 6th, doing substantial damage to the structure, closing it for about three months. The barge escaped the mishap only slightly damaged. *k The former Lakers THOMAS F. PATTON and CHARLES M. WHITE left Quebec City behind the tug FAIRPLAY IX on September 8th enroute to Karachi, Pakistan. The TOM M. GIRDLER, behind the tug HANSEAT, cleared Quebec City on September 16th, also for Karachi with intended stop at the island of St. Helena off the African coast. ** The scrappers EUGENE J. BUFFINGTON and J. P. MORGAN, JR., arrived at Bilboa, Spain on October 22nd. The pair was later moved to Aviles, Spain by mid-November. ** The hull of the cabin-stripped tanker CAPE TRANSPORT, still moored at Kingston, has been renamed WITTRANSPORT II, suggesting that her earlier-intended move to the Caribbean may yet be made. ** Dismantling of the salty PHOTINIA was begun at Kewaunee in January. ** Scrapping of the former Cliffs' motorship RAYMOND H. REISS by Marine Salvage at Humberstone appeared to be underway by late February with word of removal of her bow thruster and burn-out of a portion of her forward cabin. ** The proposed purchase of National Gypsum's Huron Cement division by General Dynamics has been cancelled. ** Collingwood Shipyards will enlarge their 518' x 56' drydock to 645' x 70' in a project to begin this Summer. The yard's HULL 223, the 730-foot straight decker for Nipigon Transport, will be launched in late April as LAKE WABUSH. Her keel was laid October 20th. ** Columbia's 1,000- footer completing at Bay Shipbuilding's Sturgeon Bay facility will be christened COLUMBIA STAR. ** While the name of the 730-foot Upper Lakes Shipping motorvessel now on the stocks at Port Weller has been identified as CANADIAN PIONEER, the next carrier there, also for Upper Lakes, will be named CANADIAN AMBASSADOR. Her delivery is scheduled for mid-1983. ** The complexion of U.S. Steel's ore fleet will change further with word of their intention to convert their steamers ARTHUR M. ANDERSON, CASON J. CALLAWAY and PHILIP R. CLARKE for the self-unloader trade. The projects are said to be scheduled for this coming Winter at Fraser Shipyard, Superior. Meanwhile, two more former Tin Stackers have been stripped out at Duluth; the steamers JOSHUA A. HATFIELD and AUGUST ZEISING. ** The Halco motorship OTTERCLIFFE HALL will not be converted to self-unloader, as was earlier outlined. The vessel is receiving new side and tank tops at Toronto during the current layup period. ** Iron Ore Company of Canada will close its Sept Iles plant by May 15th because of weakened ore markets both here and abroad. ** The 240-acre Bob-Lo Island and the excursion steamers COLUMBIA and STE. CLARE were recently sold at Detroit to a new investor group, as yet unidentified. The sellers, owners only since 1979, were reportedly asking $11 million for the operation, which fell on hard economic times during last year's season. Operations are expected to resume on schedule this Spring. ** The 140-foot, 1948-built motorvessel AVALON VOYAGER broke up on the rocks at Scotch Bonnet Island in Hay Bay west of Tobermory on October 30th. The vessel, which had served for a time at Toronto as a pilots' office, was being moved from Kincardine to Owen Sound for restaurant use. Heavy weather and mechanical problems forced the crew to abandon the craft. They were rescued by the four-man crew of the fishing tug W. A. SPEARS. ** Group Desgagnes and Logistec Corporation have merged to form Navigation Sonamar which will operate a fleet of 15 vessels ranging in size from the 6,470 deadweight ton MATHILDA DESGAGNES, formerly CSL's ESKIMO, to the 1,015 deadweight ton coaster MONT ST. MARTIN, another Desgagnes unit. Logistec will contribute nine vessels, the largest of which are the three 4,300 deadweight ton motorships FORT GASPE, FORT KENT and FORT LENNOX. Sonamar has a 20-year contract to move salt from the Hagdelan Islands for the Quebec government and has long-term chartered Algoma Central's self-unloader ALGOSEA. Hots