Maritime History of the Great Lakes

Brookes Scrapbooks, 1927-1933, p. 48

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ifeiv k "a 3 I i( Vv ;.;::'¦;;;>¦:; ¦ K:!.xk:i-S::i i j i> ' ¦ ,J^ Marine News NOTICE TO MARINERS. on, ofl Bayfield, wreck buoy c'iscontinued—As the spuds have been removed Irom the wreck of Department of .Public Works dredge "« and R, Ko. 1," which lies about 7y2 miles, 258 degrees 30 min. (S. 84 degrees \V. mag.) from the light on Bayfield wharf, this wreck is no longer a menace to navigation, and the green gas buoy showing an occulting green light, placed to mark this wreck, has been discontinued. NOVADOC AT ^ELLEVILLE. Belleville, Kept. JM^mnaTtrip, rtrest boat ever to enter the local harbor, the Novadoc from Fort William, arrived to-day with a cargo of 13,500 bags of flour to be unloaded here. The consignment is only '.he first of many which will arrive. The Novadoc Is 255 feet long, and under the command of Captain Beatty. Captain Beatty states that Belleville hai-bor is admirably suited to the unloading of Jlour. BACK IN SERVICE. jsion,' Sept. 8.—(CP)—Six Can-da [steamship Lines grain carriers, up here about two weeks ago, put back into service to-day. _ the line expected they would be busy until the end of the navigation season. The ships, Acadian, Magog, Mapleton, Granby, Elgin and Oxford, were laid up when shortage of grain developed at the Cataraqui Bay elevator. | Marine News TWO VESSELS GROUND. Sault Ste. .Marie, Out., Sept. 12.— (CP)—Heavy fog on St. Mary's River caused two lake vessels to go aground to-day. The tug Dubbs was released from a shoal near Little Rapids Cut, , after having been aground for three hours. It is owned by the Great Lakes ; Dredge and Dock Company, freighter W. II. Barker was delayed for some time in the middle Keebish . Dyke when the grounded but was able ' r- release herself, undamaged. i St. Catharines, Sept. 23. — The steamer Mondoc, ol the Patterson Steamship Lines, loaded, with nearly 100,000 bushels of grain, has established a new speed record for passage through the Welland ship canal. The Mondoc logged through the canal In five hours 35 minutes. The previous record was six hours 15 minutes. tf) p:

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