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CLARENCE B. RANDALL Pete Worden Photo CLARENCE B. RANDALL, May 24, 1975, downbound in the West Neebish Channel Light ship after getting orders changed in Hay Lake to Port Inland because of a strike at the Thunder Bay Ore D lock. Log Correspondence Northville, MI 48167 Pete Worden, Editor The bulker CLARENCE B. RANDALL (2) (a. J.J. SULLIVAN) arrived from Milwaukee at M & M Steel, Windsor, Ontario on January 19 at 2 P.M. Purchased by Inland Steel Company in 1972 from the then-dissolving Pioneer Steamship Company, and later by Seaway Towing for rename as_ the _ barge WANNAMINGO, she was towed to her scrap berth from Milwaukee by the tugs TUSKER and GLENADA. *** In Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, fellow member Captain John P. een on announced the purchase of the tug CHIPPEWA (a. ROGERS CITY b. DOLOMITE) from = Towing. Wellington will rename the company Wellington Towing, Inc. A second tug has been purchased by Captain Wellington, aoe both tugs will be stationed at the Soo. Gaelic Tugboat Company, owned by ies Captain Bill Hoey, has chartered the tug JOHN A. MCGUIRE from Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company, Cleveland. The tug arrived in Detroit in late January. *** Officials of the Chatham, Ontario based Lower Thames _ Valley Conservation Authority (LTVCA) have a 42072 Sunnydale Lane $70,600 contract with the McKeil Work Boats Ltd. to station the 2,000 horsepower tug W.N. TWOLAN in the lower Thames River from January 1 to March 31 to keep the ice broken up in an effort to avoid flooding. *** Moore McCormack Resources, Inc. is selling its Great Lakes and ocean bulk _ shipping subsidiaries, including Interlake Steamship Company and Moore McCormack Bulk Transport to James R. Barker, it's former chief executive officer. Mr. Barker commented "I have always loved the shipping business and look forward to the challenge that these troubled businesses present." *** The two Boblo boats, COLUMBIA and ST. CLAIR, will have new moorings at the Detroit Marine Terminal at the foot of Clark Street, just below the Ambassador Bridge and a block off I-75, when the park season opens Memorial Day, 1987. *** In response to the wage and fringe-benefit reductions and alleged "blacklisting" by the eleven companies represented by the Great Lakes Carriers Association, the head of the Seafarers! International Union, (SIU), Roman Grabwicz, announced that the union is asking Canadian sailors to authorize a strike that could shut down all Canadian Great Lakes, St. Lawrence Seaway, and coastal shipping as early as June 1, 1987, A strike could have dire consequences for Canadian Great Lakes shipping, coming on the heels of a five-week strike/lockout by grainhandlers in Thunder Bay last summer. *** Last arrival in Thunder