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on St. Joseph River MAY GRAHAM (i) : Author's Collection MAY GRAHAM (i) (U.S. 91173) Sidewheel river excursion vessel; 96 x 16 x 3.5; 91 gross tons, wooden hull. Acquired by Crosby, c. 1913. Abandoned 1921. Dues and Log Correspondence 20255 Wellesley Birmingham, MI 48010 Bill Luke, Editor The familiar "Wishbone" emblem of the Halco wrfleets of bulkers and tankers, a longtime fixture on our Great Lakes shipping lanes, began to disappear this late fall when it was announced that a new enterprise, Enerchem Transport Ltd., had acquired the Halco tanker group consisting of six vessels. One of the principals in the new firm is a former senior Hall Corporation officer. The six boats will be renamed as follows: CHEMICAL TRANPORT - ENERCHEM FUSION DOAN TRANSPORT - ENERCHEM CATALYST; GASPE TRANSPORT - ENERCHEM AVANCE; INDUSTRIAL TRANSPORT - ENERCHEM REFINER; ISLAND TRANSPORT - ENERCHEM LAKER; JAMES TRANSPORT - ENERCHEM TRAVELLER. Meanwhile, the Halco bulk vessel fleet is now under the operational control of Navicam Management, Inc., for the Royal Bank of Canada. *** The month of November was not an easy one for the former USS Tin Stacker steamer B.F. AFFLECK, long idle at Duluth. She broke her moorings at the old Hyman-Michaels scrap dock on Halloween \ morning and had to be retrieved to await the former Western Engineering tug THUNDER CAPE from Thunder Bay. That tug, just sold 3 a5: to Great Lakes Marine Contracting of Port Dover, had been engaged by ULS International to move the AFFLECK to Port Colborne for dismantling. On November 8th, the THUNDER CAPE suffered engine problems 20 miles notheast of Copper Harbor during bad weather, forcing her skipper to set the AFFLECK adrift with a crew of two aboard. The tow was retrieved by the icebreaker MACKINAW and Soo-based tug AVENGER IV and taken to the Soo by the latter, while THUNDER CAPE was returned to Thunder Bay under tow of the tanker EASTERN SHELL. By November 23rd, the THUNDER CAPE, in company with tug ELMORE M. MISNER, had AFFLECK headed down the St. Clair River on the final leg of her journey to the breakers at Port Colborne. Following that delivery, the tugs were to head first to Erie, Pennsylvania to pick up the former Bethlehem steamer ARTHUR B. HOMER for her move to Port Colborne then to Toledo for the former Cliffs! steamer WILLIAM P. SNYDER, JR., also slated for dismantling there. Cutting on AUGUST ZEISING was finished by mid- November, only three months after those Operations began. *** Another long-idle (October 1981) ore carrier, Inland Steel's handsome L.E. BLOCK, was towed from Milwaukee to Escanaba by the Selvick tugs DARYL C. HANNAH and CARLA ANNE SELVICK on November 11th. New owner Dan Kobasic has not made public his plans for the BLOCK. *** The Huron Cement fleet, to be transferred to Canadian-flag operation on January Ist, will be further altered with the diesel repowering this winter of the steamer J.A.W. IGLEHART. Details as to specifics and location of the conversion have not been released. Safiahal Society member Fred