Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Detroit Marine Historian, v. 37, n. 7 (March 1984), p. 5

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ly to acquire the ) RIVER and ST. CLAIR will continue to service Edison's needs in these areas. *** Superior Shipbuilding of Neenah, Wisconsin has offered troubled Upper Peninsula Shipbuilding Company of Ontonogon, Michigan, contingent upon arrangements with the state of Michigan, The plant was closed in July, 1982 when state officials withheld further payments on the construction of a tug and four barges which were to be used in railferry service across Lake Michigan. At present, certain members of UPSCO's former management are under investigation for i laritie: ** Consi ion is currently underway toward the establishment of a Welland Canal museum to be located in a section of the abandoned canal north of the city of Welland. Purpose of the project would be to define the history of the four Welland Ship Canals, their importance to the development of the area and, as presently envisioned, would include the placement of a 1920-era lake bulk steam vessel in the project. *** The Lake Michigan carferry CITY OF MILWAUKEE, the last survivior in that class of steamers, has happily been saved from the shipbreakers. Acquired recently by the city of Frankfort for the kingly sum of $2.00, she will be retained by that municipality for use there as an appropriate museum/symbol of those earlier years, *** The Milwaukee fireboat DELUGE, built at Bay City in 1949 at a cost of $340,000, will be replaced by October Ist by a new amphibious craft. Officials there estimate the new craft will save the city's treasury some $400,000 annually. EK OA Buffalo group may acquire the forlorn excursion steamer CANADIANA for a BOECKLING-type restoration. The former Buffalo-Crystal Beach day-boat is presently languishing aground in a mud-flat at Ashtabula. *** Another departure from the Lakes' scene will be the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker ALEXANDER HENRY, built at Thunder Bay in 1959, her spot to be filled late next year by the 200-foot ARCTIC I, presently building at a Vancouver shipyard. eet Upper Lakes Shippings' big salty CANADIAN HIGHLANDER has been transferred to their foreign flag subsidiary and renamed CITADEL HILL. *** With news that U.S. Steel has stripped two more of their old straight-deckers in the sad fleet of obsolete ore carriers in the Duluth-Superior harbors area (M/V EUGENE W. PARGNY and M/V EUGENE P. THOMAS) comes further word that the dismantlers of several "Tin Stackers" in recent times, Western Metals of Thunder Bay, went into receivership on December 13th. Presently moored at Western's Kam River facility are the final remains of the former Goderich-based storage hull LIONEL PARSONS and the recently-arrived former Pittsburghers JOHN HULST and HORACE JOHNSON. Slated for tow there from Duluth this spring, for scrapping, were three more long-idle U.S. Steel ore carriers, the steamers B.F. AFFLECK, JOSHUA A. HATFIELD and AUGUST ZEISING. The shipbreaker's failure reportedly was caused by _ difficulties encountered in its demolition of Toronto's old Maple Leaf Mills elevator, undertaken last year. Efforts are underway to restore work at the Kam River site, under new ownership. *** From the Wallaceburg area comes news that in mid-February, Malcolm Marine's tug BARBARA ANN broke ice in the Sydenham River to lessen flood possibilities in the Wallaceburg and Dresden areas, with the tugs ATOMIC and VAC employed by the Thames River Conservation Authority duplicating that effort to eleviate flooding conditions in the Thames River watershed. *** Last June's "Great Lakes Live Steam Whistle Blast", held at Detroit Edison's Marysville plant, proved to be a big success, with over 600 persons attending the festivities which witnessed the toots of over 30 big whistles from former Great Lakes passenger and freight vessels. LOUIS J. CAHIL Executive Director Relations Group Ltd. Dinner Speaker Canada Public Inside

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