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SHIPS This winter at the Rud Machinery Co in Cleveland will be the JOHN STANTON, which will receive a new tank top, and the J.S.ASHLEY which will be repowered with a 2500 h.p. Skinner Uniflow engine and new Babcock & Wilcox boilers. After a considerable period of conversion the coal carrier GEORGE S.CLEET (ex IMPERIAL WHITBY, ex IOCOMA) has been a added to the fleet serving the Toronto area. A fire in the ‘tween decks wl timbers of the veteran tug GLADIATOR recently, kept the River Rouge fire department busy for most of a day. The tug is not seriously damaged. Sand Products Co. and American S.S. (Boland & Cornelius) will form a corporation, Amersand, Inc. to operate the converted C - 4 MARINE ANGEL. The abandoned steam fishing tug ALBATROSS, sunk in the River Rouge, has been removed by U.S.Engineers. The CHARLES M.WHITE, second of the Browning converted C-4 ships, has arrived at South Chicago for final alterations. One of the new freighters under construction at Midland, Ontario for Upper Lakes & St.Law- rence Trans.Co. will be named JAMES L.NORRIS, in honor of the founder of that fleet. Port Arthur shipyards have been awarded a contract for a large bulk freighter for Algoma Steamships, Ltd. Reliable rumors indicate that one or more Victory ships will be brought to the Great Lakes from salt water during the winter. The tugs WISCONSIN and NEBRASKA have joined the local "G" fleet, replacing the OKLAHOMA (ex T.C.LUTZ) and OREGON, which have been sent to Lake Erie for conversion to diesel @rive. wR OK KR OK OK OK KOK OK OK KK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK KOK OK KK OK KOK OK NEW The first British flag ocean service between Manchester, Eng- BRITISH land, and Canadian Great Lakes ports will be inaugurated soon SHIPS by Manchester Liners, Ltd., their Ontario agents, F.C.Thompson Co., Ltd. have announced. Two of the vessels, the MANCHESTER PIONEER and MANCHESTER EXPLORER, are being built at Birkenhead, England. They will be 258 ft.in length, 13 ft. beam carrying ahout 1, 500 tons on canal draft and a total deadweight capacity of 2,750 tons. The first of the vessels is expected to be delivered in April, 1952 and the second a month later. Sailings will be made from Canada and Man- Co chester at monthly intervals. Manchester Liners, Ltd. have maintained a regular service between Manchester and eastern Canadian ports for more than half a century. (Toronto "Telegram" ) et et Sl Oe, et I ae ee Se ge ee Mat eh ON a OE ae Sacre PE nr Seer MR Sar ech oa Oe Re * kx OCEAN Two new ocean going bulk freighters, intended to serve the new- RE developed Labraddr Range, are now under construction in England, CARRIERS one at the Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson yards at Wallsend - on-Tyne, and the other at the Furness Shipbuilding Co. yards at Bartow-in-Furness. They will carry ore from Sept Isle (Seven Islands), Quebec, and American Atlantic ports. Their dimensions will be, length, 630 ft., beam 85.6 ft.,depth 45.6 ft. 12,500 h.p. engines will give them a speed when loaded of 15 m.p.h. (If and when the St.Lawrence Seaway is completed, and our Great Lakes channels and harbors deepened, we may see ships of this type bringing Labrador ore to Conneaut and Gary.) BORE Oo eo RK OR eK ek a eae aera ra. Ok. ae ORD OR oe, kok Sk SK ae OR. “sie ice ae GOING ? Rumors indicate that the freighter E.C.POPE and the barge SWEDE- ROPE (first of that name) will soon be leaving Nicholson's dock at Ecorse, bound for Lake Michigan to be scrapped. If true this will end the career of one of the oldest freighters on the lakes, a ship with an outstahding record. The E.C.POPE was built at the Wyandotte yards of the old Detroit Dry Dock Co. in 1891, and was then the largest ship on the Great Lakes, in the bulk freight trade- Her dimensions are 323.2 x 42.2 x 21.7. She served her first owners, the Eddy-Shaw Transit Co. of . Bay City until the first War. Subsequently she carried autos and was used (| as a crane ship. The SWEDEROPE was built as a barge at Camden, N.J. in 1906 for the coastwase trade and was originally named NUMBER TWENTY FOUR. She came to the Lakes in the Twenties.