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x t a sixth crew member remains missing. Weather conditions at the time of the sinking were fair and ice was not severe. Investigation of the incident continues. PATRICIA B. MCALLISTER (C.810810) was built in 1976 as a.) ESSO SANTA CRUZ; 120.0 x 37.0 x 17.0, 439 gross tons. She was renamed b.) SANTA CRUZ and c.) PATRICIA B. MCALLISTER when acquired by McAllister in 1988. ***% %** Jeffrey Kamphuis, 22, a marine navigation student at Georgian College, was discovered missing from Upper Lake's CANADIAN CENTURY on the morning of April 24 while the vessel was upbound in Lake Erie heading for Marquette. Canadian provincial police called off the unsuccessful search for the student two days later. *** FedNav's FEDERAL FUJI arrived into Oswego harbor on April 26 to become the first salty of the year there in 1991. She was carrying $5 million worth of equipment to be used to build a high-efficiency furnace for Alcan Rolled Products. *** While unloading corn at the elevator in Cardinal, Ontario on April 30, P & H Shipping’s steamer BEECHGLEN’s a.) CHARLES M. SCHWAB hull cracked at the number 4 cargo hold, allowing her bow to rest on the bottom in 27 feet of water. McKeil’s tugs STORMONT and TRAVELER arrived with their lighter D. C. EVEREST and proceeded to take a full load of corn off the BEECHGLEN. The remainder of the corm cargo was unloaded directly from the BEECHGLEN into the Cardinal elevator. P & H officials are expected to make a decision soon on the fate of the steamer. *** On May 10, Socanav's 350-foot tanker EASTERN SHELL ran aground while approaching Parry Sound harbor in Georgian Bay. Four tanks ruptured, allowing approximately 53,000 gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel to spill into Georgian Bay. Fortunately, the Canadian Coast Guard's BARTLETT was in the area at the time of the grounding and arrived within 30 minutes to help in deploying booms which trapped most of *) the spill. Cleanup crews were able to skim off almost all of the spill and place it into portable tanks and barrels. No long-term effect to the environment was expected as a result of the accident. *** The first Russian salty to visit Ludington in eleven years arrived May 13. NOVO POLO TSK arrived from Lenigrad and loaded bulk and bagged magnesite bound for Holland and Germany. *** On May 14, the Yugoslavian-flag salty MALINSKA ran aground in Lake Ontario south of Kingston, Ontario while en route to Sorel from Hamilton. Crews were to begin transferring steel coils so MALINSKA could be refloated and towed to a shipyard for repairs. *** Construction of a new $26 million ferry for Pelee Island was scheduled to begin June 1, officials at Port Weller Dry Docks recently announced. The ferry will be a roll-on, roll-off car and passenger vessel which will service Lake Erie from Kingsville to Leamington on the Ontario mainland to Pelee Island and from Pelee Island to Sandusky Ohio. The 207-foot ferry will be powered by two 1,400 HP engines and will Carry 400 passengers and 40 cars, or 25 cars and two tractor trailers. The new ferry will replace PELEE ISLANDER which will, in turn, replace the much smaller UPPER CANADA. Delivery of the new ferry is set for May 31, 1992. *%% Attorneys for Island Creek Corporation of Kentucky secured a court order allowing a U. S. Marshall to seize the Michigan-Wisconsin,s § (M-WT) _ carferry BADGER after failing to receive payment for more than $70,000 worth of coal provided for the M-WT carferry operation last year. The federal seizure of the carferry comes at a time when Ludington’s economic development leaders and Michigan state legislators and transportation officials have been working with M-WT owner Glen Bowden for months to attempt to work out a plan to restore carferry service by this June. *** The former Hall tanker SCOTIACLIFFE HALL a.) AVERY C. ADAMS was recently renamed i.) NAVIFOR Il by unspecified Norwegian owners and broken up. 44-10-5