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Dues and Log Correspondence 20255 Wellesley Birmingham, MI 48010 Bill Luke, Editor Initial interest in tours of the newly-opened museum laker WILLIAM A. IRVIN at Duluth has been extremely encouraging. Nearly 10,000 people visited the former Pittsburgh Steamship Company flagship in the first two weeks of her new role. A number of former officers and crew members have returned to offer their services as guides. *** The Soo's 5th Annual Tugboat Race was held July 5th with Seaway Towing's trim CHIPPEWA the overall winner. She was under the command of our member Captain John Wellington. Another item of local interest there was the belated launching of Twin City Drydock's new 450-ton floating drydock. Originally set for a July 3rd splash, the collapse of certain ) BENSON FORD launchways prevented her move to the St. Marys River proper until the evening of the 10th. On the 16th, her first job involved lifting the Corps of Engineers derrick barge NICOLET. *** At last report, SAVIC had been moved to the Lanoraie anchorage between Montreal and Quebec City. She has been sold to Ziff for scrap. *** Meanwhile, other lakers began their departures from fresh water for foreign breakers; among them was Boco's DETROIT EDISON, downbound through the St. Clair River on July 8th with tugs WILFRED COHEN and SALVAGE MONARCH, enroute to Quebec City. Along with Boco's SHARON, she cleared there for Texas behind the U.S. flag tug PRUDENT on July 16th for a Texas port, thence to either Venezuela or Columbia. *** Upper Lakes Shippings' steamer WHEAT KING was moved out of Toronto harbor on July 15th to begin her move to Quebec and shipbreakers in Brazil. She last saw active service in late 1981. *** In late July, the names WILLIAM CLAY FORD and BENSON FORD were burned off the hulls of these two former Rouge Steel carriers at their Taylor Photo