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wo HILLSBORO ex SAIPAN ex MAINE and PINELLAS ex FLORIDA WSC May '83 Bill Luke, Editor Ford Motor Company's Rouge Steel Company has reduced its operations with the recent shut-down of one coke oven. A blast furnace is scheduled to be closed around Labor Day. The Ford steamers WILLIAM CLAY FORD and BENSON FORD were on their last trips for the season on August 4th, with their steamer ERNEST R. BREECH headed for Bay Shipbuilding's Sturgeon Bay yard for her five-year survey. Only the HENRY FORD I will remain in active service for the firm as plans now stand. *** Workers at Collingwood Shipyards went out on strike June 30th, indefinitely Eger boning the July 14th-planned launching f new CSL 730-foot straight-decker each reportedly will be named PRAIRIE HARVESTER. *** The M.E.B.A. struck the Kinsman fleet the week of Au; 1st leaving the KINSMAN INDEPENDENT at Cleveland and WILLIAM A. MCGONAGLE at Buffalo. The only other two units of the fleet which had earlier sailed this Skip Gillham Photo season, the ALASTAIR GUTHRIE and MERLE M. McCURDY, had previously been laid up at Duluth by reason of poor business conditions. The fleet's remaining two steamers, C. L. AUSTIN and FRANK R. DENTON, both have been idle for some time. *** Interlake laid up their 1,000-foot MESABI MINER at Detour in early July, joining her sister JAMES R. BARKER and = Maritime-class SAMUEL MATHER there in ordinary. *** Two new Canadian 730-footers began their Great Lakes trade in July. Upper Lakes' CANADIAN AMBASSADOR left Port Weller Dry Docks' facility on July 4th for Conneaut where she loaded coal for Nanticoke. She had been christened June 11th. Misener's Govan, Scotland-built CANADA MARQUIS was upbound at Detroit on July 25th on her maiden voyage. Lake Ontario Cement's newly-converted STEPHEN B. ROMAN cleared the Collingwood Shipyards before July lst, some time earlier than expected, by reason of labor unrest there. Final touches to her i leted at Toronto. She is operated by CSL, under whose colors she sailed as their package freighter FORT WILLIAM. *** CSL's first ship-to-ship coal transfer of the 1983 season was completed near Quebec City in early June. Involved in the 60,000-ton switch were H. M. GRIFFITH, J. W. MCGIFFIN and NANTICOKE and the big