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Activities in the Marine Field Latest News From Ships and Shipyards a Expect Increase In Coal Shipments a month of July closed with a fair increase in coal receipts. Ore docks have gained a lit- ile on the waiting fleet, which is not as large as it was a month ago, but the line up at lower lake ports is still big and boats are pretty badly bunched. The increase in the coal movement has not improved the car supply in the ore trade to any ex- tent. Representatives of the shippers, railroads, and the interstate commerce commission have worked out a plan to bring the coal movement up to 4000 carsea day for the rest of the season. This is the mark that must be reached in order to meet the requirements of the northwest. Under the new plan, which has already gone into effect, all the mines will have to send part of their output to the lake front. A good coal movement would improve _ dis- patch as the car supply would be in- creased and more boats would take up cargoes and would not get around so fast. Shipments of ore to lower lake ports in July were 9,638,606 tons, an increase of 465,177 tons over July, 1919, when shipments were 9,173,429 tons. The iron ore movement so far this season shows a loss of 3,530,053 tons compared with the corresponding period in 1918. Shipments of ore for the season up to Aug. 1 amount to 26,079,111 tons against 25,181,848 tons for the same time last year. Grain shippers at Lake Michigan ports are in the market for small tonnage. The Beteht 'market is quiet in all other ies with little chartering done. - oe The carferry Pere Marguerte No. 3 ed was crushed by ice and went to € bottom about 3 miles from Luding- ton harbor last March, has been raised a towed behind the breakwater. The cane will be patched and pumped out and taken to port for repairs. os + Capt. Daniel Wilman, of the steamer aa which grounded near Cove oh Georgian bay, on July 9, was pone the following day. He was 1 the Becker fleet for seven years, sinning as mate of the steamer V. H. oe The stranding of the Bat- was his first accident. a. < « Capt. C. H. Franke died on Lake "Wperior aboard his boat, the steamer fleet Upson, of the Wilson Transit Wik July 15. He had been with the son company about. 20 years. 26.4 Wl United States shipping board Mer Lake FRraMpron was sunk in * collision with the steamer Comus off BY H. C. MEADE Atlantic". City, No 7 recently. Iwo members of the crew were lost. She was launched at the Lorain, O., yard of the American Shipbuilding Co. in October, 1918, x ee In endeavoring to avoid a collision with a sailing vessel and a sand steam- er, the GLENLYON recent hit the dock of the Northern Navigation Co., Port Huron, Mich., causing considerable dam- age to it and the breakwater. The steamer was not damaged. + ke The Cleveland office of the Emer- gency Fleet corporation has been closed. All but six steamers and two tugs build- ing for the corporation have been de- livered. Four of the boats will be completed shortly. The business for this district is now handled at the Philadelphia office. <a oe The steamer C. H. Brapity, upbound from Port Huron to Duluth with the barges Mary Woorson and Miztec in tow, ran into heavy weather off Thun- der bay recently. The Wootson crashed into the BrapLey soon after and_ be- came waterlogged and sank. The stern of the BrapLEy was badly smashed but she was able to make port. The MiztEc was abandoned. The crews of the two barges were taken on board the steamer Huron of the Wyandotte Transportation Co., which went to the assistance of the BRADLEY. * * Bids for repair work on the break- water in Cleveland harbor have been received by the government engineer in that city. The work comprises the repairing of the rubble mound east breakwater and the placing of riprap in front of the west breakwater. «Oe Capt. George B. Atkinson, who has been ill, has now taken command of the steamer THOMAS SHAUGHNESSY. Capt. L. S. Tilden has sailed the steam- er since the opening of the season. ks otiations are under way for the connie -of the Goderich line, Northern Michigan Transportation Co., the Chicago, Racine & Milwaukee line, Wisconsin Transit Co., and the Milwau- kee Transit Co. Fifteen vessels will be brought under one flag if the merger is completed. Fe American Shipbuilding Co. re- ne sold the steamers L. M. deans and M. E. Farr, two of the four 600- foot freighters building at. a and Wyandotte yards, to G. A. Tomlin- 517 son, Duluth, and James E. Davidson, Bay City. The price was the largest ever paid for bulk freighters, The steamer Bowers has been delivered but the Farr, which is building at the Wy- andotte yard, will not come out. until October. ee The Detroit chamber of commerce is planning to construct a suspension bridge over the Detroit river between Detroit and Windsor, Ont.The bridge will have a span of 1770 feet and will carry rail- road, street car, vehicular and pedes- trian traffic. It is estimated that the cost will be $28,000,000, of which $10,- 000,000 already have been subscribed. Construction work, it is planned, will be started within a year. Yer The property of the Foundation Co., Port. Huron Shipyard, Inc, Port Hu- ron, Mich., was sold to H. L. Goldman, Detroit, at auction recently for $216,- 000. The property consists of frontage of 1800 feet, a complete list of modern tools and machinery, steel buildings, and a 500-foot drydock with crane equipment. ee ce The . steamer H... H.: . Porter cwas. launched on July 30 at the Lorain yard of the American Shipbuilding Co. The Porter, named after a director of the company, is the second of the four 600- foot steamers building on the company's account. Her keel was laid Jan. 29. She will be ready for service about Sept. 15. oo The property of the Glens Run Coal Co., located in Belmont and Jefferson counties, Ohio, was recently leased by the Youghiogheny & Ohio Coal Co. A large part of the coal will be shipped to the lakes. . Dredge work in Erie harbor has been started. The United States dredge, Bur- ton, is there and will spend about 30 days cleaning up the channel. 'x oe , As the steamer WILLIAM ee was icking up the barge JoHN FRitTz re- Non off South Chicago they collided. The Fritz lost an anchor and broke a hawse pipe. ee The steamer J. K. Dimmick, owned by the Milwaukee Western Fuel Co., has been renamed the Epwarp U. DreEem- rr, for the nephew of Edward A. Uhrig, president of the company. The name of the steamer W. K. Brxsy, which was sold to Peter Reiss of the C. Reiss Coal Co., Sheboygan, Wis., early in the season, has been changed to the J. L. river