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The LOG (continued) Bay was ALGOWAY on December 30 with salt for the Valley Camp salt dock. After unloading, she proceeded to drydock at Portship. The H. LEE WHITE, loaded with 26,000 tons of potash for Toledo, was the last ship to leave Thunder Bay on Monday, December 29. She also closed the Soo locks, downbound, the next day. The last grain ship to depart Thunder Bay was SENNEVILLE, on December 28, with storage grain cargo for Port McNicoll. *** Cargo totals in the Port of Thunder Bay in the past shipping season were 2% ahead of the previous year at 17,617,246 tons. *** Wedtech Corp., the New York contractor that bought and reopened the Ontonagon, Michigan shipyard from the now-defunct Upper Peninsula Shipbuilding Co. in 1984, is currently in the midst of Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. Several companies are interested in purchasing the facility. Wedtech Corp. already has sold the partially completed tug and barge eystem to Florida-California shipbuilders. AVENGER (MCM-1), the first of the new class mine warfare ships for the U.S. Navy, departed her builder's dock, Peterson Builders, Inc., Sturgeon Bay, on December 23rd to conduct sea trials. A $96.6 million fixed-price contract for two additional Mine Countermeasure ships was awarded to Peterson as well. Marinette Marine Corporation, Marinette, Wisconsin, was awarded a $51.8 milion fixed-price contract for one MCM ship. *** Bay Shipbuilding Corp., Sturgeon Bay, recently announced that the second in the three-ship series of@ containerships being built for the Sea-Land Services, Inc., was floated from the graving dock. The 710-foot containership, designated Hull 736, will be berthed at one of the outfitting piers for completion. Meanwhile, construction continues on Hull 737, with delivery scheduled for 1987. tule thousand-footers, JAMES R. BARKER, COLUMBIA STAR and MESABI MINER are all scheduled to undergo epee at Bay Shipbuilding this winter. Muskegon County, Michigan voters wil be asked March 3 to give the County Commission authorization to levy up to a half-mill property tax increase to help pay for a Lake Michigan car ferry. The proposal calls for the 150-car, 800 passenger ferry VIKING to be renovated and run between May 15 and September 15 beginning in 1988. The ferry projects is expected to cost about $15.4 million. +e Marine Salvage has leased the U.S. 265808, ex BENSON FORD (2) to Heritage Navigation Co., who in turn have chartered it to the Ontario Paper Co. She has been loaded with saltcake as a winter storage barge by the Thorold Industrial Dock Co. The saltcake will be stored until spring and then reloaded on a salty. US 265808, ex BENSON FORD arriving at Ramey's Bend November 30, 1986 Skip Gillham Photo