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x x WILLIAM CLAY FORD (ii) St. Mary's River 6/28/85 photo by Jim Jackson Steel tanker T3-S-A1 type, built in 1942 at Sparrows Point, Maryland by the Bethlehem Steel Company (Hull#4378) launched as SAMOSET for Socony-Mobil Oil Company: 487.6 Me 68 X 37; 4,378 arts as: Requisitioned by the U.S. Government before documentation named a.) MOBILOIL. Transferred to the Navy in 1942 renamed b.) U.S.S. CHIWAWA (AO 68). Documented in 1948 : c.) CHIWAWA (us 251808), Purchased by Cleveland Cliffs and arrived in Toledo, Ohio in April, 1960. New 510° midbody built at Hamburg, West Germany by Schleiker Werft and was towed to Lorain, Ohio and joined to the old bow and stern to make a new bulk freighter: 715.33 X 75 X 36; 11,726 gross tons and renamed d.) WALTER A ene in fae Lengthened 96 feet at American Ship Building, Lorain in 1976, new dimensions 811.46 X 39; 14,905 gross tons. Converted to a self unloader at Amship Lorain and Toledo in 1978. Renamed a WILLIAM CLAY FORD (ii) in 1985 and f.) LEE A TREGURTHA in 1989. This issue completes our review of the Ford Motor Company's marine operations. Your editors would like to thank Wayne Garrett for his excellent series on the scrapping of the World War | lakers, and also Father Edward J. Dowling, S. J. and Rev. Peter Vander Linden for their assistance in researching this series. Additional thanks to the University of Detroit Marine Collection, the Henry Ford Museum - Edison Institute, Carmen Paris, and the Peter B. Worden Sr. Collection for use of their photographs. Our appreciation also goes out to Dan McCormick who updated us on the fate of the GREEN ISLAND, and to Donald M. D. Thurber for his information on the scow PEQUAMING and Ford's overall operations in the Pequaming area. Finally, a special thanks to Bob Ruetz for developing and printing the majority of photographs used in this article. her bow. After spending a week in a Halifax shipyard for repairs, she continued on her THE LOG voyage. *** On April 2, CSL’s TADOUSSAC came in contact with the Clarence Street lift bridge in Port Colborne, opening an 11-foot crack in her starboard bow. She underwent In early March, while transiting the Gulf of St. repairs in Port Colborne and left the same Lawrence, CSL’s ATLANTIC HURON a). PRAIRIE afternoon bound for Conneaut to unload her HARVEST ran into hard pack ice and damaged cargo of iron ore. *** On April 6, ULS's 43-11-3