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downbound on March 21 with 58,286 short tons of ore loaded in Two Harbors and bound for Gary. However, heavy ice in the western & approach of the Poe lock trapped the SPEER in the lock for over four hours, until the U. S. Coast Guard's icebreaker MACKINAW arrived to break out the ice jam. The first upbound passage through the locks was accomplished by Lake Shipping’s KAYE E. BARKER, transiting the Poe Lock on March 22 bound for Duluth. To celebrate the first and last ship of each navigation season, the U. S. Corps of Engineers has mounted the steam whistle from the former U. S. Steel steamer GEORGE G. CRAWFORD on the north side of the canal's Administration Building. It was used for the first time on March 21 to salute the SPEER. *%% On March 26, the first vessel to transit the St. Lambert Lock upbound in the Montreal-Lake Ontario section of the Seaway was Canada Steamship Lines’ RIMOUSKI, while in ceremonies the same day attended by new U. S. Seaway Administrator Stan Parris, SILVER ISLE became the first vessel to transit the Snell Lock downbound. The first vessel to transit the Welland Canal upbound was P & H Shippings’ steamer WILLOWGLEN, while the tug JOE VAN and barge MN 141 completed the first downbound passage of the canal, both on March 26. *¥* Algoma’s ALGONORTH opened Thunder Bay harbor on March 26 when she arrived to load 25,000 tons of durum wheat. Captain Doug Taylor was awarded the traditional top hat by Thunder Bay Harbor commissioner Andrew Coffee. *** Algoma's ALGOLAKE opened Goderich harbor on March 29 when she arrived to load 27,000 tons of salt for Milwaukee. Captain Charles Phillips was awarded the traditional top hat in ceremonies hosted by Goderich mayor Eileen Palmer. *** Algoma’s AGAWA CANYON anchored off the Carbide dock at the Soo on March 31 for repairs to a 6-foot crack sustained when she struck a large patch of ice in Whitefish Bay while downbound with a load of potash. She received a temporary patch, A and departed two days later bound for Toledo. *¥*¥*® On April 1, the J. W. Westcott Company began it's 116th season of operation in the Detroit River when Captain Samuel Buchanan piloted the company’s mailboat, J. W. WESTCOTT Il, alongside American Steamship's upbound 1,000-foot WALTER J. MCCARTHY JR. *** Morton Salt’s barge MS 74 is currently being scrapped at the Haridon dock in the Rouge River. For years, she was utilized transporting salt between Windsor’s Ojibway salt mine and Morton's salt dock in the Rouge. She has been replaced by Gaelic’s barge GTB 1. ¥** The first saltwater vessel upbound through the Soo was FedNav's FEDERAL INGER, transiting the Locks on April 6 bound for Algoma Steel in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. *** Included in Algoma Central's 1990 Annual Report to stockholders were these interesting facts regarding their self-unloader ALGOBAY. ALGOBAY was transferred to Liberian registry in February 1990. This vessel, which is crewed with a combination of Canadian senior officers and Filipino junior officers and crew, is chartered to Atlantic Beltships. Since the vessel fitted out for ocean service in February 1990, it has been trading in the area along the east coast of Canada and the United States as well as the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. *%* The MANITOU, a 114-foot two masted schooner, will berth in Northport, Michigan from April 1, 1991 to March 1996 according to a village lease with the Tall Ship Company. Plans are to offer six-day Great Lakes cruises from Northport starting in mid-June. MANITOU, now moored in Lake Champlain in upstate New York, sails with a six-member crew and has 12 double cabins that carry up to 24 passengers. The lease between the village and Tall Ship needs approval from the State Waterways Commission. The National Park Service has designated the carferry CITY OF MILWAUKEE as a National Historical Landmark. The steamer, moored in Elberta, Michigan, provided ferry service across Lake Michigan from 1931 until 1982. 44-9-5