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” A in the Marine Field © - Latest News from Ships and Shinyaxde Good Season Foretold by Ship Sales ROSPECTS for a lake season with heavy freight offerings continue bright. The iron and steel industry is being driven to capacity with prices steadily mounting. As a_ result, iron ore demand is assured in volume suffi- cient to keep the freight fleet busy. The movement is expected to reach 55,000,000 tons’ and may run higher, as this figure was easily surpassed during the war. Coal shipments will be heavy as northwest supply is low. Grain tonnage will depend upon the crop and_ the market. New ships are being completed, many sales are announced or planned and a large new fleet will be busy in the St. Lawrence grain trade. oR oe A number of lake vessels have been sold in the past few weeks. The steam- ers SonorA and SULTANA were sold by G. A. Tomlinson to William Nicholson of the Nicholson Transportation Co., Detroit. The W. R. Srarrorp was sold by the Cleveland Builders Supply & Brick Co. and the Joun M. McKercuey by the United Fuel & Supply Co., Detroit, both to the Kelley Island Lime & Transporta- tion Co., Cleveland. The wrecked pas- senger steamer Arrow was sold by the Sandusky & Islands Steamboat Co. to J. E. Murphy, Chicago, for rebuilding to run in Chicago harbor service. The Epwarp BucKkLey has been bought by the Peninsular Towing Co., Wiarton, Ont., which recently sold its tug CRraw- rorD to the Ontario Sand & Gravel Co., Windsor. The Cowles Shipyards Co., Buffalo, has sold the tug SEAFARER to H. J. Dickinson &~ :Co., “Toronto. The tug is one of the largest on the lakes, having been built for the government. x * x More vessels will run in the automobile trade this year. The bulk freighters SonorA and SULTANA recently sold, will be adapted for that trade. The Pory- NEsIA, now the A. D. -Macseru, and the | the small Samuel MarTHeEr, now the. CuirTon, will run in this trade, man- aged and operated by .Capt. M. F. Thompson of the Tristate Steamship Co., Cleveland. Seven steel steamers will be ‘in the automobile trade this season. a ee R. A. & W. M. Williams Co., Cleveland, has changed its Williams & Timmermann The ship broker, name to the Co. ee Possibly in a year, the Supreme Court may review the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. case, provided the peti- tioner carries through the case. Some Michigan taxpayers sought to compel the company to reopen its service to upper Lake Huron ports, which the company abandoned after 50 years’ service because it was unprofitable. x * x The 600-foot bulk freighter RicHarp V. Linpagury, building by the American Shipbuilding Co., for the Pittsburgh Steamship Co., was launched at Lorain, O., on Feb. 24. Pe The WorretL CLarKSON, 600-foot freighter, building by the Toledo Ship- building Co., for the Kinsman Transit Co., was scheduled for launching March 17. Keels for the big bulk freighter for the Reiss Steamship Co. and a self- unloader for the Huron Steamship Co., were ‘to be laid | at Toledo in March. The Alaska Steamship Co., has sold the steamship JUNEAU to the Rutland Lake, Mich., Transportation Co., Chicago. The vessel, which for six years plied in the Seattle-Alaska trade, will sail for the Great Lakes in the near future, and there she will be operated between Chi- cago, Buffalo and Montreal in the grain carrying trade. The JUNEAU was con-. structed in 1908 by the Great Lakes En- gineering Works, Ecorse, Mich. She is of 2382 gross tons. register, 244 feet long, 43.2 feet wide and 27 feet deep. She will be loaded at Seattle and Puget Sound ports rig the east coast. The United States lake survey reports the monthly mean stages of the Great Lakes for the month of February, 1923, as follows: Lakes Feet above mean sea level January February Superior. ....... 601.86 601.60 Michigan-Huron . 579.02 578.81 St. Claes 2 oe ora 573.07 Erie: (nov en eee 570.88 Ontario 60222400 2a 0 244.47 Along the Gulf Coast RECORD was established Feb. 14, at Galveston when four gangs of longshoremen discharged 13,568 bags of sugar from the Norwegian steamship RAVNANGER in a working day of eight hours. The previous record of 12,183 bags was established last year during the discharge of the American steamship LAKE Farriie. The RAVNANGER is handled by the Lone Star Steamship Co. with George Wells and Bernard Ken- nedy in charge of the discharge of the cargo. rhe et ’ Daniel Ripley & Co. who for years have been steamship agents in Galves- BIG SIDEWHEEL PASSENGER CARRIER NOW UNDER CONS1RUCTION BY D. & C. LINE FOR SE ies BETWEEN DETROIT AND BUFFALO 135