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to Port Weller Shipyards this winter to be repaired. **%* Recent activity at Bay Shipbuilding in Sturgeon Bay included Amoco's tug/barge combination MICHIGAN/GREAT LAKES, placed on the drydock October 17 and back out October 19. USX’s EDWIN H. GOTT went into the drydock on October 21 and was back out on October 25. Inland’s WILFRED SYKES arrived on October 31 and was back out November 2. USX's EDGAR B. SPEER, which arrived at the yard on October 19 for her five year inspection and miscellaneous work, departed on November 4. Selvick Marine's newly-purchased tug MARY PAGE HANNAH arrived on November 2 and was placed on the drydock for her load line. She was back out on November 7. *** The five-month old strike at Robin Hood Multifoods in Port Colborne was settled on October 25. *%% In early November, workers at Stelco, Inc. in Hamilton, Ontario voted to accept a contract offer, thus ending a work stoppage that began three months earlier. On November 20, workers at Algoma Steel Corporation of Sault Ste Marie, Ontario ratified a new contract, ending a strike which began August 1, 1990. *** On November 1, the remains of the cement carrier ROBERT KOCH arrived at Levis, Quebec under tow of _ the 4200-horsepower tug DUGA. Although scrapping operations were initiated at Contrecoeur in 1986, the hull lay untouched at Three Rivers. Shortly after arriving at Levis, scrapping of the hull was finally completed at the small Davie Brothers Shipyard. *** The underwater drill ship TELESIS, a). CONISCLIFFE HALL, was towed down the Welland Canal on November 12 by McKeil’s tugs GLENBROOK and LAC ERIE to Port Weller Drydocks. TELESIS was then placed on the drydock where she underwent her five-year inspection and general repairs. *** Algoma’s JOHN B. AIRD departed Samia on November 15 after necessary repairs were completed by Sandrin Brothers Limited and Herb Fraser and Associates, Ltd. Repairs were required as a result of the October 16 fire aboard the AIRD while she was loading millscale at the Inland Steel mill in East Chicago. *** Arriving at © Owen Sound on November 20 was Medusa Cement’s 1906-built MEDUSA CHALLENGER, carrying the first cargo of cement to be unloaded at the new Miller Paving silo. *** On November 24, four days after the Algoma steelworkers settled their strike at Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Algoma Steel's YANKCANUCK departed the plant with a cargo of scrap steel bound for Detroit, ending a three month lay-up. HR On November 25, Columbia's MIDDLETOWN was downbound in the upper St. Mary's River when she ran out of the channel and grounded off Birch Point. Purvis Marine's tugs ANGLIAN LADY and WI. SCOTT PURVIS along with their barge PML SALVAGER arrived on the scene along with Great Lakes Towing’s MISSOURI and VERMONT and McLean’s WILFRED M. COHEN. After lightering 4500 tons of her taconite cargo into PML SALVAGER, MIDDLETOWN was refloated at 4:52 AM November 26 and was found to be undamaged. *%* On November 30, Canada Steamship Line's TARANTAU rescued two commercial fishermen from their disabled 16-foot boat in moderate seas on a windy Whitefish Bay. Both fishermen were treated for hypothermia aboard TARANTAU, and were later put ashore when the ship passed downbound through the Soo Locks. *** Ending a strike of 122 days, workers at the Empire and Tilden mines voted December 1 to accept a new three-year contract with Cleveland Cliffs. Both mines operations were expected to be back at full capacity within a week of the settlement. *** — Enerchem Transport has sold their 1958-built tanker ENERCHEM LAKER, a). ROCKCLIFFE HALL, to overseas interests and on December 7, she departed Montreal after being renamed RECOVERY 68 and flying a Panamanian flag. *** Downbound past Detroit on December 10 was_ the Ontonagon-built rail barge under tow of Southguilf Chemical’s tug TORRENT with Malcolm's TUG MALCOLM assisting. The barge, built by the Upper Peninsula Shipbuilding Co. (UPSCo), was originally intended to transport railcars across Lake Michigan. It is bound for Texas after being purchased by Marine Specialty Company of Friendswood, Texas. Upon arrival in Texas, she will join the Ontonagon-built tug which was also purchased by Marine Specialty and towed to Texas in late 1989. *** As of December 12, the following 44-5-5