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~ & of the Soviet tug B A PEERLESS BA PEERLESS photo courtesy Peter B. Worden, Sr. Collection Steel tanker (C.194747) built in 1952 at Collingwood, Ontario by Collingwood Shipyards Ltd. (Hull# 148) for British American Oil Company as a.) B A PEERLESS: 601 service in 1959 by Port Arthur Ship Building. installed, new gross tonnage 10,900. 1984. Sold for scrap in 1989. Lines 68,000 deadweight-ton Panamax class self-unloading bulk carrier CSL ATLAS. In April, she will be commissioned and proceed to Ponta da Madeira to load her first cargo for delivery to Quebec. CSL ATLAS is the first ship of a series of Panamax class self-unloaders ordered by CSL from Verolme Brazil and will be the largest vessel in their fleet. She will be fitted with a articulated discharge boom identical to the highly successful one fitted on the 63,000 deadweight-ton CSL INNOVATOR, which was converted at the Verolme shipyard in September 1988. *** On December 13, the Toledo-Lucas Port Authority granted permission for CSX Transportation to demolish three ore unloaders and one of two coal loading rigs at the Presque Isle docks, and also One ore machine and two coal loaders at the Lakefront dock. In late February, actual cutting of the Huletts had begun. *%** Departing Halifax on December 16 under tow GIGANT was the tanker COASTAL CANADA bound for Chittagong and X 68 X 34; 12,638 gross tons. Rebuilt for ocean ing. She was shortened to 530 feet and had an ocean type bow Renamed b.) GULF CANADA in 1969 and c.) COASTAL CANADA in eventual scrapping. For her final trip, COASTAL CANADA was reflagged to St. Vincent & Granadines. She was built in 1952 as Hull* 148 of Collingwood Shipyards for the British American Oil Company and launched as B. A. PEERLESS. in 1958/59, she was shortened 60 feet at Port Arthur Shipbuilding Company. In 1969, she was sold to Gulf Oil Canada and renamed b.) GULF CANADA. in 1984, she was acquired by Coastal Canada Marine Inc. and was renamed c.) COASTAL CANADA. *** The first vessel to arrive in Montreal in 1990 was the British flag, Hong Kong-registered container ship CANMAR VENTURE, arriving on January 1 from Cadiz, Spain. First to arrive in Quebec City was the Hong Kong-registered tanker CHOCTAW, arriving on January 1 with a cargo of crude oil loaded at Mina al Fahal, Omen. On both occasions, a gold-headed cane was presented to the captain of each vessel. *** The U.S. Coast Guard's MACKINAW, which had spent over three months at Bay Shipbuilding for repairs, passed inspection and departed for 43-8-5