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FEDERAL LAKES The LOG (continued) Fednav Photo self-unloader CONALLISON, best remembered as Columbia's J. R. SENSIBAR, was dismantled at San Esteban de Pravia, Spain with initial cutting begun late last October. The former CSL Laker-Salty ST. LAWRENCE arrived at Luda (Darian), China on January 5th. She had cleared the River Rouge at Detroit with her final cargo (scrap) on November 3rd, enroute to the shipbreakers in the Orient. *** The three Misener-operated Laker Salties, CANADA MARQUIS, SASKATCHEWAN PIONEER and SELKIRK SETTLER, have spent the past winter on salt water again. The two Misener-owned motorships have been engaged in the grain run between Hamburg and Leningrad, while SASKATCHEWAN PIONEER has passed the late winter months in layup on the east coast. *** The Port Huron-based Malcolm tug BARBARA ANN and = Sarnia-based tug GLENADA broke ice in the Chenal Ecarte and Sydenham Rivers on February 24th in efforts to prevent flooding in the area. At the same time, the Canadian-flag tug ATOMIC was 26s working the Thames River on a like mission. *** The sale of the three larger Desgagnes boats (LAC STE. ANNE, MELDRUM BAY and OUTARDE) for scrap has apparently involved Upper Lakes Shipping, now known as ULS International. It now appears that trio will be dismantled at USL's Port Colborne facility, the site of the old Algoma Steel operation, where NORDALE and ERINDALE have recently been cut down. It seems ULS is going into the shipbreaking business exclusively, at this location, with a hefty number of vessels due for dismantling during the current year. *** Two more Lakers have been identified as candidates for the scrappers. On the Canadian side is Nipigon Transport's former T-2 steamer LAKE WINNIPEG while the U. S. entry is the 1952-built Bethlehem fleet steamer JOHNSTOWN, which, with her _ sisters SPARROWS POINT and ELTON HOYT 2ND, entered the Great Lakes system via the Mississippi River system, all three having been built at Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point shipyard expressly for Great Lakes service. She is the first post war U.S. laker to go for scrap. *** The Lakes Breath of Spring, Huron Cement's steamer S.T. CRAPO, cleared Detroit on March 14th for Alpena to signal yet another initial season's voyage. Only three days behind that sailing was Ford's HENRY FORD II with her departure from the Rouge complex for the coal docks at Toledo. U.S. Steel is said to be planning operation of five red-hulled carriers; EDWIN H. GOTT, EDGAR B. SPEER, ARTHUR M. ANDERSON, CASON J. CALLAWAY and PHILIP R. CLARKE, and five grey-hulled self-unloaders; JOHN G. MUNSON, GEORGE A. SLOAN, CALCITE II, MYRON C. TAYLOR and IRVIN L. CLYMER. Hanna will open with GEORGE A. STINSON and PAUL H. CARNAHAN, with Kinsman's operating fleet to consist of KINSMAN INDEPENDENT and MERLE M. MCCURDY. Big Steel's diesel THOMAS W. LAMONT is said to be on the list for scrap sale. Most astonishing news of all is the notion that Big Steel's 858-foot motorship ROGER BLOUGH, idle at Sturgeon Bay since September of 1981, completed by American Ship, Lorain in 1972, may never sail again! Her depth is said to limit any possibility of her being lengthened. *** In further news on the dawning 1985 navigation season, Columbia is said to be planning to operate the 1943-built Maritimer steamer J. BURTON AYRES, rotating her spot with the motorship JOSEPH H. FRANTZ. Ford's newly-acquired steamers EDWARD B. GREENE and WALTER A, a y STERLING have been repainted in Ford colors w at the Fraser shipyard, preparatory to their The Log continued on PAGE 3