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duly 12, NIPIGON BAY arrived at Sorel under © tow of McKeil’s GLENBROOK, GLENEVIS, LAC COMO, and STORMONT. FORT CHAMBLY arrived at Sorel on July 19 under tow of GLENBROOK and STORMONT. Both former Canada Steamship Line vessels were sold recently for scrapping overseas. REX SOODOC arrived in Montreal on July 14 for the first time since she was transferred to Bahamian registry in the fall of 1988. Shortly after arriving, SOODOC was transferred back to Canada and “Thunder Bay”, her home port, was painted on her stern. *** July was a busy month for Twin City Shipyards located at the American Soo. The U. S. Coast Guard's buoy tender BUCKTHORN went on the drydock on July 18 for shaft repairs. She left the shipyard on July 21. McLean’s tug WILFRED M COHEN was placed on the large drydock on duly 19, departing on July 25. On July 26, the tug FLO COOPER and the U. S. Fish and Wildlife vessel TOGUE were in the two drydocks. *** Failed bargaining attempts between management and about 100 Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company workers resulted in a lockout at the shipyard on July 18. Five year drydock inspections are scheduled at Port Arthur this summer for ULS's CANADIAN HUNTER, Paterson's CARTIERDOC, and CSL‘s NANTICOKE. *** The unfinished tug built by the UPSCO shipyard in Ontonagon, passed Detroit, downbound, during the early morning hours of July 28, towed by the tug THUNDER and assisted by Wellington Towing's IROQUOIS. The tow arrived at its destination in Houston, Texas on August 19. The barge portion of the unfinished tug/barge combination is still in Ontonagon, awaiting a court ruling before being delivered to Houston. Both the tug and the barge were purchased by Marine shecilly Company of Friendswood, Texas. Kinsman’s HENRY STEINBRENNER was a Marquette on August 5 where she loaded iron ore, bound for the C & P ore docks in Cleveland. This cargo was the first ore loaded ” by the HENRY STEINBRENNER since 1979, e 43-1-5 when she was sailing as WILLIAM A. MCGONAGLE. *** On August 5 and 6 over 1000 people took advantage of the first public tours of the Big Point Sable Lighthouse (near Ludington, Michigan) in over 20 years. The tours were held as part of a series of ceremonies recognizing August 7 as National Lighthouse Day. This day was set aside to honor the anniversary of the U. S. Lighthouse Service and the keepers who often risked their lives in service to the mariner. On August 7, 1789, President George Washington signed the ninth act of the First Congress, establishing a federal program of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers. *** Inland Steel's EDWARD L RYERSON made a rare visit to Detroit on August 22, loading a cargo of slag at National Steel. *** The U. S. Coast Guard's MOBILE BAY will become the second 140-foot class icebreaker outfitted with a 120 foot work barge and a 20 ton crane. The addition of the barge during the summer of 1991 will enable the icebreaker to service buoys and other navigational aids in addition to its regular icebreaking, search and rescue, and law enforcement missions. The Coast Guard experimented with a prototype barge on the Detroit-based BRISTOL BAY. Used in Lake Erie, Lake St. Clair, and the Detroit River, it proved to be a success. BRISTOL BAY will receive the first of the new class of barges in 1990. ¥** PETROPAN NO. 1, ex BAYSHELL, was observed in Balboa, Panama by our member Captain E. F. Leistikow. According to Captain Leistikow, a local Panamanian company intends to use her for offshore bunkering of vessels at anchor awaiting transit of the Panama Canal. *** Bill O'Neil, a top official of the St. Lawrence Seaway for thirty years, the last nine as president, has been named to run the 133-nation International Maritime Organization —_(IMO). The London-based IMO is an agency of the United Nations and sets the operating rules and regulations for ships on the high seas. O'Neil says his first tasks will be formulating an