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w replacements for the tug ROBINSON BAY, which is scheduled for a refit. *** On September 1, HULL NO. 1, ex KINSMAN ENTERPRISE arrived at Sorel under tow of SALVAGE MONARCH and HELEN M. MCALLISTER. On September 6, HULL NO. 1 departed Sorel for overseas scrapping at Turkey, under tow of the Polish salvage tug JANTAR. *¥* A twenty-six-year-old Toledo man has been charged in connection with the dune 2ist fire which destroyed the 80-year-old steamboat G. A. BOECKLING. Christopher Smalley was arrested by Toledo Fire Department investigators on September 8 and appeared the next day in Toledo Municipal Court. *** On September 14, McAllister Towing's PATRICIA B. MCALLISTER departed Montreal bound for Pictou Nova Scotia where her hull will be ice-strengthened by Ferguson Industries Ltd. *** Group Desgagnes motorship EVA DESGAGNES has been sold to Mexican interests, and departed her layup berth in Toronto on September 23. She has been renamed TELCHAC with her port of registry as Progreso and was flying the Mexican flag. TELCHAC arrived at Sorel on September 25 to prepare for her overseas voyage. On September 30, TELCHAC cleared Sorel for Mexico. EVA DESGAGNES last saw service for Group Desgagnes on December 15, 19688 when she arrived at Prescott for lay-up. She left Prescott in June 1989 bound for Toronto for further lay-up. EVA DESGAGNES was built as Hull 18 of Port Weller Dry Docks in 1955 for Beaconsfield Steamships Ltd. as GRIFFON. She was later transferred to the affiliated Mohawk Navigation Company, deepened and lengthened in 1959, and again lengthened in 1960. She was sold to Quebec and Ontario Transportation Company in 1967 and renamed b.) FRANQUELIN. In December 1983, she was purchased by Group Desgagnes and in 1987, was renamed c.) EVA DESGAGNES. REE On September 24, ENERCHEM ASPHALT, idle in Montreal since her engine room fire in late August, departed for sea trials after repairs were completed. However, on her return, one of her two engines failed and she limped back to Montreal. **¥% On September 27, fire broke out on Canada Steamship Lines H. M. GRIFFITH at Lock 8 in the Welland Canal. According to Seaway Officials, a rubber and fiber conveyor belt ignited in an unloading tunnel. McKeil's ARGUE MARTIN assisted the GRIFFITH to a dock in Port Colborne where the fire was extinguished. H. M. GRIFFITH was bound for Hamilton loaded with 26,000 tons of coal. *** Columbia's J. BURTON AYERS was on the drydock at Merce Industries in Toledo from September 27 through October 15 to repair damage from her grounding in the Soo River on September 23. The new Drummond Island ferry, pier ISLANDER Ill, departed her Mississippi building yard on September 27. She followed the Intercoastal Waterway up the Atlantic Coast from Florida, and was in Boston Harbor on October 16. *** On October 12, Ford Motor Company announced it had tentatively agreed to sell its wholly-owned steel subsidiary Rouge Steel to Marico Acquisition Company, a company specifically formed to acquire Rouge Steel. Marico is made up of a group headed by Carl L. Valdiserri, retired chief operating officer of Weirton Steel of Weirton, West Virginia and described by Ford officials as ~ a life long steel man”. Ford will also own a minority stake in the new company, and expects to complete the sale by the end of the year. *** Recent observations at the Welland Canal include the following: FUEL MARKETER scrapping has been completed at Port Colborne. Cutting on E. J. BLOCK continues at a slow pace. Her engines have been removed, and about thirty percent of her hull is remaining, almost her full length. CANADIANA remains untouched at the same location at Ramey's Bend. At Port Weller Dry Docks, the Canadian Navy's frigate NIPIGON has almost completed her $25 million refit, which includes major modifications to her stern architecture. She is expected to leave Port Weller by November 1 after a fifteen month stay. Algoma Central's ALGOGULF's self-unloader conversion has just begun, while Canada Steamship Lines PRAIRIE HARVEST's 43-3-5