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salty MOUNT EDEN. *** The new $600,000 MAID OF THE MIST V was lowered into the Niagara Gorge on June 8th. She replaced MAID OF THE MIST I, a veteran of years of service in the roar and mists of the Great Falls. *** The recent tow from Cleveland to Ashtabula of the excursion steamer CANADIANA does not necessarily signal her demise. Resting in the mud near the site of the old Great Lakes Engineering Works, she may emerge in yet another role. Further details will follow as they become available. U.S. Steel's giant 1,000-foot sisters EDWIN H. GOTT and EDGAR B. SPEER may be converted this Winter to conventional self-unloaders, enhancing their use in a broader range of cargoes and ports. *** The unique union of the bow and midsection of Upper Lakes' steamer NORTHERN VENTURE with the stern of the former package freighter CABOT now underway at Port Weller Dry Docks' yard will emerge as CANADIAN EXPLORER. The similar project involving HILDA MARJANNE and CHIMO will sail as CANADIAN RANGER. *** Unusual passages at the Soo this Summer have included U.S. Steel's Bradley-fleet motorships CALCITE I and MYRON C. TAYLOR, Boco's ROGER M. KYES and RICHARD J. REISS and Shediac Bulk Shipping's tanker SEAWAY TRADER, formerly Imperial Oil's IMPERIAL COLLINGWOOD. *** The U.S. Navy's destroyer EDSON is their representative on this Summer's goodwill tour of Great Lakes ports. *** Winner of this year's International Tugboat Race, held on the Detroit River on July 2nd, was Malcolm Marine's 2,150 hp BARBARA ANN. At the Soo, their second annual race winner was the U.S. Coast Guard ice-breaker KATMAI BAY. *** Two new Great Lakes cargo records have been established. On June 9th, Algoma Central Marine's ALGOWEST cleared Thunder Bay with a total of 1,047,758 bushels of wheat for the lower St. Lawrence River. Interlake's WILLIAM J. DELANCEY established her third record for the season when she left Escanaba on July 23rd with 67,104 tons of ore pellets (on a 30-foot draft) for Indiana Harbor. *** The hull of the stripped former Halco tanker WITTRANSPORT II (CAPE TRANSPORT) has settled by the stern at her causeway bridge berth at Kingston, the apparent victim of vandals. Efforts continue to have the vessel removed from that location. *** A new privately-owned firm, Michigan Wisconsin =62 Transportation Company, has purchased the C&O ferries BADGER, CITY OF MIDLAND 41 and SPARTAN and plan their operation between Ludington and Kewaunee. *** The Automobile Club of Michigan is considering the broadening of service to Bob-Lo Island from sites near Gibraltar and Grosse Ile with the construction of additional small ferries to handle the potential new routes. Further, the Auto Club has applied for a $50,000 federal historic preservation grant, to be matched by the AAA affiliate, for restoration of woodwork and stained glass aboard the steamer COLUMBIA. This Society, some time ago, made application for a similar grant for this purpose. were denied. *** Williamston, Michigan publisher John McGoff is investigating the purchase of the troubled Upper Peninsula Shipbuilding Company on Ontonogon which is presently stalled by contractual differences with the state in the completion of the controversial tug and barges program. The tug and one barge sit partially complete at the yard at present, work towards their completion halted months ago. *** Scrapping operations on two Canadian-flag self-unloaders are said to be progressing at a rapid rate. The bow section of Westdale Shipping's LEADALE is virtually gone at Dwor's Marine Salvage yard at Rameys Bend near Port Colborne while the stern portion of Westdale's NORDALE has been cut away at es former Algoma Steel dock at that same . *** Newman Terminals and Be patiaiion Inc., of Windsor has initiated a new truck trailer hauling service between there and Thunder Bay. Capable of transporting 50 to 60 trailers per trip, Newman has chartered the Panamanian- registered ferry CARIBBEAN TRAILER, a 350-footer operated by Lakespan Shipping Ltd, a Canadian firm. The ferry, operating out of the former CSL terminal below the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor West, loads the truck trailers from her stern, her bow protruding directly into the Detroit River. A number of Canadian shipping firms, including Jensen Shipping of Montreal, filed objections to the use of a foreign-flag vessel in this service but were denied by reason of their inability to provide suitable vessels. The new operation out of Windsor began in late July. **#* EL SALINERO ex CALGADOC (2) sank off El Paraiso September 21, 1982. 18.44 W. x 103.59 N. while on a voyage from San Carlos to Salina Cruz. ] “ Y