Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Detroit Marine Historian, v. 41, n. 2 (October 1987), p. 5

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ALGOSOUND Detroit River - September 27, 1987 Photo by Michael J. Nicholls Steel bulk freighter (C. 322232) built in 1965. Forward cargo section and bow 222.6', built by Davie & Sons, Ltd. Lauzon, Quebec. Aft cargo and stern machinery section 485' built by Canadian Vickers, Ltd. Montreal, Quebec (Hull #285) as a.) DON DE DIEU, 707.5 x 75 x 39 17,564 gross tons. Renamed b.) V.W. SCULLY in 1967, c.) ALGOSOUND in 1987. Pete Worden, Editor 42072 Sunnydale Lane Northville, MI 48167 Thanks to member Bill Kemp of Whitehall, Michigan for this correction to last month's LOG: USCG ESCANABA (WMEC 907) was actually christened at Middletown, Rhode Island in 1985. Her trip to Grand Haven was to participate in a memorial service for the crew of the first ESCANABA. ESCANABA (1) was built in 1932 as Hull #149 of the Defoe Shipbuilding Company of Bay City. She was lost by enemy action in World War II in the North Atlantic near Ivigut, Greenland with the loss of 101 lives. *** MAZAHUA, ex CAPE BRETON MINER, arrived at Kaohsiung on May 27 while her near sister KALLI, ex ONTARIO POWER, arrived at the same port only 13 days later, on June 9. Both vessels were sold to Taiwan shipbreakers. *** In July, the pilot house and forward cabins of ARTHUR B. HOMER were lifted off intact at the ee scrap dock in Port Colborne. SASKATCHEWAN PIONEER made her se visit to Cleveland on July 29, unlpediog) 6,000 tons of steel from Antwerp. a he scrapping of the cement barge ROBERT KOCH resumed at Contrecoeur in June at the former Gondec International scrapyard, now under new management. In early August, her mid ship cabins were gone. *** L.E. BLOCK arrived at Lake Calumet on August 5, in tow of Wellington Towing's CHIPPEWA, where she will be used as a cement storage barge. *** PRESIDENTE ALLENDE, a Cuban-flag salty was detained in Montreal in mid-August after unloading sugar at Toronto, due to overdue

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