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and her port of registry changed to Valletta, Malta. On January 8, FALCON CREST departed Montreal for Sorel under her own power to load at the Quebec & Iron Titanium dock at Tracy, proceeding shortly thereafter to an unidentified overseas port. *** Canada Steamship Line's RIMOUSKI cleared the Seaway bound for Port Cartier on December 21, thus becoming the last Canadian vessel to transit the Seaway in 1988. The Liberian tanker CHIPPEWA was the last commercial vessel downbound at the St. Lambert Lock when she transited the Lock on December 23, followed by the Canadian Coast Guard's icebreaker DES GROSEILLIERS. *** The outboard-powered bunkering barge SILLERY has been purchased by Provmar Fuels, Inc to provide bunkering services in Hamilton harbor. SILLERY departed Montreal on November 25 under tow of McKeil’s GLENBROOK bound for her new home. SILLERY (C.319264) was built as Hull #33 of Port Weller Dry Docks Ltd. as a) IMPERIAL VERDUN; 168 x 36 x 14; 734 gross tons. She was built for Imperial Oil and in 1979, was sold to the Power Corporation of Canada and renamed b) SILLERY. She was later transferred to another CSL affiliate Quebec Tugs, Ltd, a firm that was sold to Groupe Ocean, Ltd. in 1988. *** On January 23, the tug/supply vessel TRIUMPH SEA departed Montreal with ADAM E. CORNELIUS bound for Halifax where the CORNELIUS will be converted to a barge. Assisting in the tow were the tugs DONALD P. and CAPT. IOANNIS S. **% Algoma Central Marine’s ALGOMARINE is currently being converted to a self-unloader at Port Weller, with all self-unloading super structure to be located aft, including the lube belt casing and the unloading boom. ALGOMARINE is expected to be completed by April 1, 1989. Algoma intends to do a similar conversion on ALGOGULF, with delivery at Port Weller in October, 1989 to be completed in April, 1990. XX In late January, SASKATCHEWAN PIONEER, operated by Misener for Pioneer Shipping, was re-registered to Douglas, Isle of Man, while the vessel was docked at Antwerp, Belgium. *** Canada Steamship Line's self-unloader HON. PAUL MARTIN, presently operating off-lakes, has been renamed b) ATLANTIC ERIE. ***% The 180-foot offshore supply vessel MARSEA 14 will be added to the Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to study the Great Lakes. MARSEA 14, purchased from the US _ Maritime Administration for $750,000, will be rechristened with a name yet to be decided, and will be redesigned and converted into a floating laboratory. *** The St. Clair Region Conservation Authority has contracted for Waterways Transportation’s tug PRINCESS NO. 1 to be available for icebreaking duties on the Sydenham River. *** Massena State Police have arrested a 22-year-old man and accused him of firing a rifle at P & H Shipping’s BEECHGLEN as she passed the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation on the St. Lawrence River in April 1988. *** The Detroit Free Press of February 15 reports the proposed Detroit-Windsor ferry, tentatively set to begin operation May 1, might be scuttled by a Canadian demand that the operator pay the salaries of two customs inspectors. Plans announced last April indicated a private operator would run the service, making three trips per hour in peak periods between Detroit and Windsor, utilizing a 60-passenger vessel. Proposed fares are expected to be $1.75 to $2.00 each way. Here is the solution to the crossword puzzle that appeared in the January, 1989 Historian. 42-7-6 a a