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WILLIAM G MATHER, IDAHO & DELAWARE Cleveland October 16, 1990 photo by Eric Hirsimaki Steel bulk freighter (U.S.224850) built in 1925 at River Rouge, Michigan by Great Lakes Engineering Works (Hull#250) for the Cleveland Cliffs Steamship Co.: 601 X 62 X 27.7; 8,653 gross tons. Repowered with a steam turbine in 1954. Laid up for the final time at Toledo, Ohio on December 21, 1980. Presented to the Great Lakes Historical Society on December 10, 1988 for use as a museum. Towed from Toledo to Cleveland on October 8, 1989. lh THE LOG Glen Bowden, President of the Michigan-Wisconsin Transportation Company, announced that at 11:59 PM Friday November 16, Carferry service between Ludington and Kewaunee will end. M-WT's BADGER apparently hit bottom twice recently in Kewaunee harbor, and as a result, insurance coverage was cancelled. BADGER will be tied up, and all crew members will be laid off indefinitely. Bowden explained that a move to Manitowoc, scheduled for sometime next spring, has not been discounted. However, unexpected engineering problems has delayed rehabilitation of the old carferry dock in Manitowoc. *** On October 16, the former Cliff's steamer WILLIAM G. MATHER was towed by Great Lakes Towing’s tugs IDAHO and DELAWARE from her Cuyahoga River berth at Collision Bend to her permanent berth at the East 9th Street Pier of North Coast Harbor in Cleveland. The MATHER was donated to the Great Lakes Historical Society two years ago by Cleveland Cliffs, and is expected to open next spring as the “Steamer WILLIAM G. MATHER Museum”. %*%*% — Inland Lakes Transportation's PAUL H. TOWNSEND arrived at Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay on September 18 and departed six days later. **X At 8:40 AM on October 1, the Norfolk and Western railway tug R. G. CASSIDY pulled the N & W railway barge ROANOKE from the Canadian National slip in Windsor, thus ending railferry service which was initiated 78 years ago between the Wabash Railroad in Detroit and the Grand Trunk Railroad in Windsor. CN Closed it's waterfront yard after an agreement was reached to have the Canadian Pacific ferry cars for the N & W that were too high for the Detroit River Tunnel. Thus, the only rail ferry run in the Detroit River is between the foot of 2ist Street in Detroit to the 44-4-4 a y ~