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Dues and Log Correspondence 20255 Wellesley Birmingham, MI 48010 Bill Luke, Editor Replacement for the retired ice-breaker ALEXANDER HENRY at Thunder Bay will be SAMUEL RISLEY. *** The $30,000 electronic plate testing inspection of the ferry G.A. BOECKLING got underway at her Sandusky, Ohio berth during the week of July 29th. Test results were to be ready by late August, enabling the vessel's restoration group to make plans for the drydocking of the vessel, presumably at Nicholson's here at Detroit. *** Our members may recall the big tug FRANCIS A. SMALL, built by Fraser at Superior in 1966 for use in pushing the barge WILTRANCO, the former steamer HORACE S. WILKINSON (2). Later acquired by Great Lakes Dredge & Dock, and renamed JOHN A DOWNS, she was lost in February on Long Island Sound while towing a dredge in heavy weather. She was featured on the cover of the lw February, 1967 issue of the "Historian". GORDON C. LEITCH, September 3, 1965 *** On the occasion of the Dossin Great Lakes Museum's 25th anniversary, the crews of Ford's Rouge Steel Company fleet will toss blue plastic packets overboard on each of the five Great Lakes containing the "Captain of the Fleet" game as well as certificates for limited edition prints of lake boats. *** The site of the Great Lakes Towing Company office and yard at Detroit has been moved from the Rouge River near Jefferson Avenue to the former Great Lakes Engineering Works yard at Ecorse. *** Port Weller Dry Docks has secured a contract to build a 216-foot, 130 passenger capacity motorship for the Canadian Department of Transport to replace the BONAVISTA in service from Newfoundland and Labrador. The $20 million vessel is scheduled for delivery in August of 1986. *** During the 1984 navigation season, there were no grain cargoes loaded at Wallaceburg, a dubious first for the port. Since mid-July, the motorships FRANQUELIN and NEW YORK NEWS of the Desgagnes fleet have taken a number of grain loads from Wallaceburg to Georgian Bay ports, notably Port McNicoll. *** ~The 1985 navigation season will be remembered as the "Year of the Scrap Tow." Since early May, when Nipigon Transport's LAKE WINNIPEG was towed out of Quebec City alone behind the tug IRVING BIRCH Editor's Photo