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SUNSHINE COAST QUEEN The LOG (continued) operated by Woodward's of Goose Bay and was renamed SYBIL W. She arrived in Montreal on Nevermes 30 for the first time under her new ame. *** SUNSHINE COAST QUEEN (a VACATIONLAND) was recently sold for scrapping in Shanghai. However, on her trip to the scrapyard, in tow of a Japanese tug, the ferry encountered rough weather and sank in about 8,400 feet of water in the Pacific Ocean. She was built as VACATIONLAND in 1951 by Great Lakes Engineering Works (Hull 296) at Ecorse to carry automobiles between the Upper and Lower Peninsulas of Michigan before the Mackinac Bridge opened in 1957. In 1960, the Michigan State Highway Commission sold her to the Detroit-Atlantic Navigation Company (controlled by Troy Browning) and she was renamed, b) JACK DALTON. She carried truck trailers between Detroit and Cleveland. However, the venture was not a success and in 1961 she was returned to the Highway Commission who sold her to Compagnie Navigation Nord-Sud Ltd. She was renamed c) PERE NOUVEL and operated for a number of years across the St. Lawrence from Rimouski to Baie Comeau. She was later sold to the British Columbia Ferry System where she operated on Howe Sound north of Vancouver as SUNSHINE COAST QUEEN. After being sold by the British Columbia Ferry System, she was supposedly to be renamed GULF KANAYAK and CANARTIC Fr. Dowling Collection EXPLORER, however these names were never officially registered. *** On December 6, Erie Sand's RICHARD REISS arrived at Port Weller Dry Dock to undergo her five-year Coast Guard inspection and to replace her existing bow thruster. She departed and was upbound in the Welland Canal on December 18 bound for Erie and winter lay-up. *** On December 11, Kinsman's MERLE M MCCURDY departed Buffalo under tow of Great Lakes Towing's OHIO bound for Ashtabula and eventual scrapping. MERLE M MCCURDY (US 207981) was built in 1910 as Hull #75 of the Great Lakes Engineering Works at Ecorse, Michigan; 601 x 58 x32; 7,869 gross tons. She was launched as a) WILLIAM B. DICKSON and renamed b) MERLE M MCCURDY in 1969. ae Michigan-Wisconsin Transportation Company's BADGER arrived back in Ludington ‘on December 14 under tow of Selvick Marines MINNIE SELVICK and CARL WILLIAM SELVIK after drydocking and inspection at Bay Shipbuilding. *** The Erie Times reports that the Erie Navigation Company has purchased YW-108 from the U. S. Navy's Philadelphia mothball fleet for conversion to a_ self- unloading sand boat for Lakes service. YW- 108, built in 1945 at the Zenith Dredging Shipyard in Duluth, is a sister ship of the J. S. ST. JOHN. *** The C & O drawbridge over the Black River in Port Huron has been sold to a Florida bridge company and will be dismantled and floated south next summer. Correction: The caption under the BLOCK ISLAND featured on page 6 of the November 1987 Gislarinn should read: Renamed b.) COL. JOHN E. BAXTER in 1949 and c.) FISHERS ISLAND in 8.