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New Faces II “(continued)- KRISTEN D. Welland Canal - August 19, 1987 Photo by Rick Nicholls Steel ferry (U.S. 915947) built in 1987 in Warren, Rhode Island by Blount Marie Corp. (Hull #263.) Pete Worden, Editor 42072 Sunnydale Lane Northville, MI 48167 American Steamship's AMERICAN REPUBLIC delivered the final cargo to Detroit Edison's Marysville plant on March 22 (3,944 tons of coal).The plant was scheduled to be mothballed May 1. *** In the May "Historian", we reported that on April 21, P& H Shipping's BIRCHGLEN departed Toronto under tow of Great Lakes Marine Contracting's ATOMIC and ELMORE M. MISNER. On April 23, with THUNDER CAPE replacing ATOMIC as the tow passed the upbound QUEDOC near Buoy 2A in Lake St. Louis' South Shore Canal, BIRCHGLEN took a shear and struck QUEDOC on the port bow. Following the collision, QUEDOC was deliberately sent aground as she was taking on water. QUEDOC suffered extensive damage to 350 feet of her bottom and on April 26, after being refloated, departed Lake St. Louis bound for the Port Weller Shipyard. *** The Greenpeace floating laboratory vessel BELUGA arrived in Montreal on April 26 aboard the roll-on / roll- off vessel CANMAR SPIRIT. BELUGA, a refurbished 78-foot fireboat, will travel through the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi River collecting water samples, which Greenpeace plans to study and release in an extensive report after her journey has ended. *** U.S. Steel's IRVINL. CLYMER was downbound at the Soo on April 30 on her first trip since seying up in Superior on December 10, *** In the April "Historian", we Cal Paterson's KINGDOC. was fitting out in Sorel as NORTH STAR. On May 1, she left Sorel bound for Genoa, Italy as NORSTAR. Her new owner is Polaris Navigation Ltd. of Hamilton Bermuda, a subsidiary of N.M. Paterson & Sons. *** On May 7, McKeil's GLENEVIS departed Toronto with T. R. MC LAGAN heading for the Port Weller Shipyard. In Mayl9, T.R. MC LAGAN departed Port Weller bound for Thunder Bay to load grain for a St. Lawrence River port. Owned by Canada Steamship Lines, she is on a two-year charter to P & H Shipping. T.R. MCLAGAN had been idle since November 3, 1984. *** CONSUMERS a POWER arrived at Lauzon on May 8 under tow) of McKeil's GLENSIDE and W.N. TWOLAN. CONSUMERS POWER (U.S. 226276) was built in 1927 as Hull #796 of the American Ship