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THE LOG (Continued) personnel, have been placed aboard the ferry. Her top deck has been weatherproofed and general maintenance work performed. ** Further details concerning the sale of the two Welland Canal shunter units have surfaced. The pair was built by E. S. Fox, Ltd., of Niagara Falls, Ontario for $3 million, each equipped with a 3,500 hp modi- fied railway diesel engine. They were sold for $300,000 to H. Orleans and Asso- ciates of Minette Bay, Kitimat, B.C. for conversion to tugs. ** Late season activities of P&H Shipping's lakers, formerly the Soo River units, have been ob- served with considerable interest. Following delivery of her Owen Sound grain cargo to Montreal, rather than Port Cartier, FERNGLEN returned to Huron, Ohio for another grain cargo, passing downbound through the Welland Canal on November 9th enroute to Toronto, where she will apparently Winter, her future sailing in question. At the same port, OAKGLEN was reported at mid-November, in layup position without cargo. Of considerable interest at this time is just how the P&H fleet will emerge next Spring; in what colors, and in what number... ** While the future of CHIEF WAWATAM remains a big question comes rumor that CITY OF MILWAUKEE may be converted to a "motorized barge" at a cost of $1 million for Straits operation, replacing the CHIEF, whose future may indeed be final layup at Frankfort. ** Also said to be headed for final operation this season is the Canadian tanker TEXACO WARRIOR, to be withdrawn on December 19th. The costs required to bring her to new Canadian safety standards are said to be the reason for her permanent layup. ** McAllister Towing and Salvage received the $297,500 contract to refloat the passenger motorship ROYAL CLIPPER, which capsized at Montreal following a fire which gutted the vessel in December of 1977. Authoritative sources in mid-November suggested that the liner would be brought to Port Dover for dismantling. ** The salty LAGO was recently reported to be sold to Pakistan breakers. As MONTROSE, she sank on July 30, 1962 directly beneath Detroit's Ambassador Bridge following collision with a cement- clinker-laden barge. Salvaged that late season by Merritt-Chapman and Scott, the salty was partially refurbished by American Ship that following Winter, departing the Lakes the next Spring as CONCORDIA LAGO under Norwegian flag. Despite her tragic fresh-water visit, she had a fairly long salt-water career. ** By mid- November, Dale Shipping's venerable self-unloader SILVERDALE was laid up at Toronto amid rumors that the fleet's ERINDALE might not see further operation. Dale's LEADALE was the only other vessel to see service during the clouded 1982 navigation season. ** Meanwhile, Johnstone Shipping of Toronto, owners of the self-unloader CONALLISON and tanker CONGAR, were said to be in receivership, another victim of these harsh economic times. Their motorship CONDARRELL was earlier said to be sold to East Coast interests through Marine Salvage, Ltd., Port Colborne. She will be best remembered as the well-kept D. C. EVEREST. ** Iron Ore Company of Canada will "mothball" its Schefferville, Quebec ore mining operations next July as a result of slumping international demands. The significance of this decision is most note- worthy, as it was the discovery of vast ore deposits in that Labrador-Quebec area that signalled the effort to finally construct the St. Lawrence Seaway, completed in June of 1959. As a further reflection of current downbound trends for this hemisphere, Quebec's second largest ore producer, U.S. Steel's Quebec-Cartier Mining Company, announced temporary closings of its operations at Gagnon and Fermont, Quebec. It comes as no surprise that few westbound ore cargoes have moved in Great Lakes carriers during this past 1982 navigation season. ** In the current feature- article series covering the salvage of Kinsman Transit Company's flagship GEORGE M. HUMPHREY (i), U.S. Steel's Pittsburgh Steamship Company carrier D. M. CLEMSON has a prominent role as she sank the HUMPHREY while upbound in the Straits enroute from Lake Michigan to the Round Island passage. It should be noted here that the final scrapped-out remains of the CLEMSON were removed from the bottom of the Kam River at the Canadian Lakehead during the week of July 19th by Western Metals of that city, leaving the salvaged HUMPHREY in service alone as CONSUMERS POWER (iii). Western Metals also has undertaken the demolition of the Maple Leaf Mills elevator on the West end of Toronto's harbor, a landmark to so many natives of that city and marine-oriented visitors. RRKKK MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!