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MORE TO THE SCRAPPERS SAMUEL MATHER and ELTON HOYT 2nd Detour, Michigan - July 22, 1987 Editor's Photo Steel bulk freighter (U.S. 243425) built in 1943 in Ashtabula, Ohio by Great Lakes Engineering Works, (Hull #522) as a.) PILOT KNOB (1), 603.8 x 60.2 x 30.2; 9,057 gross tons. Renamed b.) FRANK ARMSTRONG in 1943 and c.) SAMUEL MATHER (6) in 1976. Pete Worden, Editor 42072 Sunnydale Lane Northville, MI 48167 Medusa Cement's recently converted cement barge MEDUSA CONQUEST, ex AMOCO INDIANA, with JAMES A. HANNAH fitted into the stern notch, arrived at Manitowoc on July 20 with their first load of cement from Charlevoix. *** On August 3, PATERSON was downbound in the Welland Canal in ballast on her way to load iron ore. Also on August 15, CAPT. HENRY JACKMAN was also downbound in ballast from Cleveland to Seven Islands for ore. It is rare for these vessels to come back down the Seaway without grain. *** On August 7, our Archivist, Dave Glick, spotted the T.W. ROBINSON and US 265808 a.) RICHARD M. MARSHALL, off Escoumins under tow of the tugs JANTAR and LEONARD W, bound for Recife, Brazil. *** On August 9, the Canadian Coast Guard's JOHN A. MacDONALD departed Port Weller after extensive refurbishing. *** On August 11, the 800 ton-per-hour hopper at the Robin Hood elevator in Port Colborne received its first self-unloader, CSL's HM. GRIFFITH. She is believed to be the first 730-foot ship to unload there. She backed into the dock, and upon her departure on Thursday August 14, backed through Lock 8 and into Lake Erie. *** Columbia's COURTNEY BURTON _ was downbound past Detroit on August 13 bound for Toledo, on her first trip after her drydocking and inspection at Fraser. *** The tug CINDY B, leased from Calumet Towing, and four barges have taken over the shuttle duties of the E.J. BLOCK between Plant 2 and 3 at Inland Steel's Indiana Harbor Works. The two four man crews can transport more tons per day at less than half the cost per ton of the E.J. BLOCK with its 26 crew members. As a result, E.J. BLOCK was sold to Marine Salvage for scrap in April 1987 and was downbound past Detroit August 16 under tow