5. Marine News - cont'd. The saga of the long-idle passenger vessel AQUARAMA continues, with the ship apparently no closer to finding a permanent home. On May 2 k , 1989, six days before a deadline to leave Sarnia, the vessel was taken in tow by TUG MALCOLM and BARBARA ANN, which moved her to the Edison Plant dock at Marysville, Michigan. There were sour grapes in Sarnia concerning the ship because no funds were spent on refitting her while she lay at the "Sidney Smith" dock, contrary to the expectations of the city and local contractors, and even when she left she did so in tow of U. S. tugs. Two members of the consortium that owns AQUARAMA were injured when a mooring cable snapped as the ship departed Sarnia. AQUARAMA did not linger at Ma rysville, for on the evening of June 1st, TUG MALCOLM and BARBARA ANN put the steamer into the Russell Street slip at Windsor, just below the Ambas sador Bridge. There she lies still, with her proposed home at Port Stan ley not ready for her and with rumours flying as to whether she will stay at Windsor, be moored at Detroit, or be taken somewhere else. There even has been talk of her running a service from Port Dalhousie to Toronto, a prospect that may immediately be discounted, for not only is there no room for AQUARAMA to be turned inside Port Dalhousie harbour, but there is insufficient water in the small port to float her there... A most unusual visitor to the lakes this year has been the coaster KANGUK, (a) GONDUL (71), (b) SILVA (80), (c) HUDSON VENTURE (82), of 2753 Gross Tons, which was built in 1 9 6 4 at Stockholm, Sweden. KANGUK is owned by the Hudsons Bay Company and is operated by the affiliated Igloolik Trans port Inc., usually in Arctic service. The motorship's first ever lake voy age took her from Montreal to Chicago and Marinette, then down to Port Cartier, Sept-I l es, and back to Montreal. She made a second lake trip in June, which took her as far as Thunder Bay. The former U. S. Steel steamers ROBERT C. STANLEY and RALPH H. WATSON had lain at Sorel since December 1987, but they cleared at last on May 1 6 th, 1 9 8 9 , behind the deep-sea tug FAIRPLAY IX, bound for a Turkish scrapyard (possibly at Aliaga). The tow was assisted as far as Escoumins by SALVAGE MONARCH and JAMES BATTLE. Meanwhile, the purchasers of the former tinstackers BENJAMIN F. FAIRLESS and IRVING S. OLDS are identified as Sing Cheng Yung Iron & Steel Co. Ltd., of Kaohsiung. The dismantling of OLDS began on November 2 k , 1 9 8 8 , while cutting of the FAIRLESS started on De cember 8th. The new name given to the auto and passenger ferry ONTARIO NO. 1, owned by the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission and managed by the Owen Sound Transportation Company Ltd., is NINDAWAYMA. The name, chosen in a public contest, apparently is intended to mean "Little Sister" (to CHICHEEMAUN) in an Indian dialect, but it seems that there is some contro versy in that respect! NINDAWAYMA was added to the schedule in June but was not put on a schedule to oppose CHI-CHEEMAUN. Instead, the new addi tion makes only two round trips a day in the high season, whereas the larger boat makes three. Unfortunately, on July 27. "human error" in a pumping operation led NINDAWAYMA to discharge a quantity of lubricating oil, which fouled a section of shoreline at Tobermory. A much worse spill occurred on July 26, when the salt-water tanker LAKE ANNE hit the wall in the Snell Lock in the U. S. section of the St. Lawren ce Seaway. The resultant hull damage caused the release of 7,500 litres of flammable xylene into the water, but the chemical was contained in the lock chamber, and was successfully sucked up by a vacuum truck. On June 19, the venerable schooner DOMINO EFFECT, the former VICTORY CHI MES, was at Albany, N.Y., where her crew was taking down her masts so that she could transit the New York State Barge Canal en route from Norfolk, Virginia, to her new home at the Domino Lodge on Drummond Island, Michi gan. When two men were 75 feet up one of the masts, it broke off, tossing both men into the air. One, age 18, was treated at hospital for cuts, but the other, noted shipbuilder and designer Nicholas Benton, 3 6 , was killed in the accident.