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FALCON CREST December, 1988 Photo by Rene Beauchamp Steel bulk freighter (C. pose les Ley in 1966 at Lauzon, Quebec by Davie Shipbuilding, Ltd. (Hull#656) for Paterson & Sons, Ltd.: renamed b.) FALCON CREST. ale THE LOG Jim Jackson, Editor Polk Dearborn, Michigan 48124 The 1988 Great Lakes shipping season officially came to a close when Canada Steamship Line's FRONTENAC arrived at the Algoma steel plant in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario on January 18 with 21,900 tons of iron ore loaded at Marquette. For U.S. flag fleets, the season ended on January 17 when U.S. Steel's EDGAR B. SPEER tied up at Gary, Indiana and unloaded 63,974 tons of iron ore loaded at Two Harbors, Minnesota. The SPEER was also the last vessel to transit the Soo Locks, locking down at 5:00 PM on January 15. *** *’ The US. Coast Guard's “Manitou” Class X 49 X 26.5; 3,610 gross tons. Sold to Maltese ownership in 1988 and medium harbor tug RARITAN (WYTM 93) was retired May 14 at Governor's Island, New York where she had been based since 1980. Before 1980, RARITAN was in service on the Great Lakes since 1962. *** McKeil Work Boats purchased the craneship canaller CONDARRELL a) D.C. EVEREST late in 1987 from Marine Salvage, Ltd. in the fall of 1988, McKeil officially renamed CONDARRELL c) DC. EVEREST. D.C. EVEREST (C.194457) was built in 1952 as Hull #45 of the Kingston Shipyards; 252.4 x 43.6 x 19.2; 2196 gross tons. *** McKeil has also purchased the former carferry barge OGDENSBURG, which was recently in service transporting containers across the Detroit River pushed by the tug PRESCOTONT. OGDENSBURG was towed to Hamilton late in 1988. *** JOHN T. HUTCHINSON and CONSUMERS POWER, which departed Lauzon on June 14 under tow of OMEGA 809, arrived at Kaohsiung, Taiwan on October 2. *** Paterson's LABRADOC, laid up in Montreal since September 22, has been sold and, on December 22, was renamed b) FALCON CREST 42-7-5