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BLOCK ISLAND Buffalo, N.Y. - October 24, 1987 Richard T. Nicholls Photo Steel passenger vessel (U.S. 226004) built in 1926 at Wilmington, Delaware by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. (Hull #3504). 159 x 40 x 25.5; 8,629 gross tons as a.) FISHER'S ISLAND. Renamed b.) COL. JOHN E. BAXTER in 1942, c.) FISHERS ISLAND in 1943, d.) BLOCK ISLAND in 1962. Came to the Lakes in 1987. The LOG (continued) downbound through the Soo Locks in tow of the tug NORFOLK REBEL. ae in September 27, WOODLAND (a. FRENCH RIVER) arrived in Montreal after her trip to the Artic and departed the next day for Windsor. *** SAMUEL MATHER (a. PILOT KNOB, b. FRANK ARMSTRONG) arrived at Lauzon on September 28 under tow of McKeil's W.N. TWOLAN, GLENBROOK and GLENEVIS. *** On October 5, CSL's T.R. MCLAGAN, idle at Kingston since November 3, 1984, was westbound on Lake Ontario bound for Toronto under tow of McKeil's GLENBROOK and GLENEVIS, reportedly to be used as a storage barge. *** On October 7, Purvis Marine's tug W.J. IVAN PURVIS stopped at the Soo with an unusual tow; a drydock gate on its way to Thunder Bay from the recently closed Collingwood shipyard. *** Also on October 7, the former Grand Trunk carferry MADISON, currently idle in Muskegon, suffered heavy damage from three separate fires believed to be set intentionally. *** On October 8, Coast Guardsmen aided by an Army National Guard helicopter successfully placed a 12,000 pound, 30 foot high cylindrical light tower at Pentwater, Michigan. This tower is the first of its kind to be equipped with an automatic fog signal, automated light, and radio beacon equipment. * Michigan Wisconsin Transportation's carferry BADGER departed Ludington on October 10 in tow of Selvick Marine's WILLIAM C. SELVICK and MINNIE SELVICK bound for Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay for drydocking. *** K ISLAND, a 150 foot, 685 passenger ferry, has been purchased by Buffalo businessman R. P. Tick, from Nelseco Navigation Company of New London, Connecticut. She arrived in Buffalo on October 15 after completing her eight day delivery trip from New London. Tick has plans to operate at least two round- trip excursions a day from Buffalo to Crystal Beach Ontario and Buffalo to Port Colborne, beginning early next summer. *** With the recent departure of vessels from the port of Toledo, as of October 18, Columbia has WILLIAM A. REISS, CRISPIN OGLEBAY (a. J.H. HILLMAN JR.), JOSEPH H. FRANTZ, and J.. BURON AYERS laid up at the Hocking Valley dock; ROBERT C. NORTON (a. PILOT KNOB (2)) is laying at Hans Hansens; with only Boland's ADAM E. CORNELIUS, JOHN T. HUTCHINSON, MCKEE SONS (a. MARINE. ANGEL) and the former Cliff's steamer WILLIAM G. MATHER remaining at the Lakefront docks. *** "Marine News" reports the sale of the drilling ship NAVIFOR NORSE to A.N.S. Andskip IV of Norway who renamed her ILE DE KASSA. She was built in. 1958 in Montreal by Canadian Vickers as a.) AVERY C. ADAMS and between 1972 and 1974 sailed for the Hall Corporation as SCOTIACLIFFE HALL. In 1974, she was sold to Forell Inc., a Liberian firm, and was renamed SCOTIACLIFFE. The following year, she was converted to a drillship at Gothenburg Sweden. a