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MANISTIQUE in the ice, St. Clair River A. G. MOREY (center) PEARL (left) Dues and Log Correspondence 20255 Wellesley Birmingham, MI 48010 Bill Luke, Editor The 1984 Great Lakes navigation season will be best remembered af the one which began with an ice jam and ended with a bridge jam. Between the two, a total of almost six weeks was lost to traffic moving normally in first the ake Editor's Collection Fr. Dowling Collection St. Clair River's lower reaches and finally the St. Lawrence Seaway in the Valleyfield region above Montreal. Seaway traffic was restored at 2315 hours on December 9th beneath the Larocque Bridge, 18 days after that bridge had jammed while being raised. A total of 160 vessels awaited that lift; 99 downbound, 61 upbound. It was even reported that engineers had at one point considered blowing the bridge up. The first eastbound passage was the U. S. C. G,. cutter MESQUITE, given priority in line following her earlier departure from Charlevoix enroute to Grenada to relieve the icebreaker tug MOBILE BAY, which had been