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Moran Towing and Transportation Co. of New York City has sold four of their large towing tugs to the United States Navy and, as a result of this, are having four more built. Ilvania Shipyards of Beau-rex., has been given the con-n order for the craft which ti si ac Lake Michigan to Have Fighting Fleet and Be Dive-Testing Region for Submarines—Other U.S.-Built War Craft May Leave Via St. Lawrence oran company operated on at Lakes last season with one tugs calling regularly here. :Ve one of the largest fleets of itugs in New York harbor, with ¦st of these powered with lectric engine. ace time the Moran tugs are used mostly for towing the big liners to berths in New York harbor, but more recently they have been operating on the Great Lakes and during the winter months have been in the coastal trade. They are excellent seaworthy ships. Great Lakes ports are receiving their full share of ship construction in the United States program laid down by President Roosevelt. Submarines, six of them all told, are being built at a U.S. Great Lakes' port, while the Fisher Boat Works, Detroit, laid the keel last September, for a $51,612 wooden torpedo boat for the navy, while Defoe Boat and Motor Works, Bay City, is building three 100-foot harbor tugs and four 220-foot minesweepers for the same service. COLLINGWOOD SERVICE. Sailors from Midland, Owen Sound, Goderich, Port Colborne and numerous other Great Lake ports, gathered at the First Presbyterian Church in Collingwood on Sunday night on the occasion of the Welcome Home to sailors and memorial service to all who lost their lives in the past year, remembering especially those who went down with the Anna C. Minch when she foundered in Lake Michigan on Nov. 11. Flowers were placed at the front of the church by steamship companies, sailors' organizations and families of those who were lost. On either side of the pulpit were red and green riding lights of a ship, and below, a lighthouse blinked over several ship models. Over the pulpit was a large anchor illuminated by .red and green lights. As the lights were lowered Rev.. C. G. Boyd read the names of those who perished and committed their bodies to the deep. For two minutes the large audience stood in silent | memory, which was broken by the sounding of "Last Post." "These sailors who died devoted their lives to their country," said Mr. Boyd, "and all those who sail the Great Lakes are doing one of the noblest services for their country." Throughout his sermon he drew a parallel between the voyage of a ship and the course of life on earth. The soloist, Ruth McMurchy, niece of the late Capt. Donald Kennedy, of the Minch, sang "Crossing the Bar." The ushers were all sailors, Captains Olaf Gulbronson, B. Grier and M. A. Livingstone, Engineers Donald McCannel, Jack Hurst and D. Timmon. Submarines are being built at United States' Great Lakes ports, and for the first time in history, undersea craft will dive underneath the fresh water of the Great Lakes .... sometime in 1942. First test dives by submarines completed for the United States Navy at Manitowoc, Wis., will be in Lake Michigan, off that port, it was learned to-day. The submerging ships will be taken on the tests by trained crews from the Atlantic seaboard and will be conducted by private crews and not navy personnel in keeping with a U.S. Government requirement. In 1942 five submarines will be completed, all about the same time, which will give Lake Michigan a fighting fleet before the vessels leave by the Illinois waterway and the Mississippi River for the Gulf of Mexico, supported in the shallow waters by pontoon cradles. Commercial work will be continued by the Manitowoc yards while the submarines are under construction and the yards even will undertake the construction of carrier and convoy craft, according to Lieutenant-Commander G. C. Weaver, chief naval inspector of the yard. Manitowoc Shipbuilding Co. has a contract to build ten submarines at a cost of around $70,000,000 plus over $1,000,000 advanced for plant expansion. The contract is one of the largest for midwestern industrial concerns and is in connection with the U.S. defense program. Manitowoc's award is by far the largest made to any shipbuilding yard so far by the U.S. Government, but many others are expected to receive large orders under the expansion program. MAY USE ST. LAWRENCE. The revived Lake Superior Shipbuilding Co., Superior, Wis., has been giveh an order for two 10,000-barrel oil tankers for the navy. These ships will be small enough to leave the lakes via the St. Lawrence River. The American Shipbuilding Co., Cleveland, has 12 anti-submarine net tenders or naval work and dispatch boats, well along in construction at its Cleveland and Lorain yards and has bid on other auxiliary and small craft which could be delivered via the St. Lawrence. Defoe Boat and Motor Works. Bay City, Mich., recently was awarded contract for building two naval trawlers at over 11.500,000 each. Other small shipbuilding cities iaround the lakes may experience a iboom similar to Manitowoc's during THURSDAY JANUARY 23 1941 the next few years, according to the present trend of affairs at Washington. HAS NEW WHISTLE Capt. Dalton Hudson, of Midland, master of the Northwest Steamship Company's A. A. Hudson, has a new whistle aboard his ship, which he had installed at the latter part of the season. Capt. Hudson has a yen for certain whistles and missed the music in his ears of the "chime" steam whistle on the S.S. Superior, of which he had been master until transferred to the A.A. Hudson. One day he was discussing whistles in his cabin with the purser, Jack Hood, also of Midland, and expressed the opinion that mill whistles were a [ splendid type, easily distinguished,: and carried great distances, besides being pleasant to hear. Hood men- \ tioned that the Letherby mill in Midland was being dismantled and its whistle might be obtainable. The pursuer was instructed to write a letter immediately inquiring about it. After negotiations, during which it was found the sawmill whistle could be adapted to the boat mechanism, the mill whistle was purchased and installed on the A. A. Hudson. Capt. Dalton is very proud of his powerful signal. He learned that Fred Bat-trick, sawmill foreman, and other workmen had constructed the whistle out of three others. The Letherby mill whistle was considered one of the most distinguished for sound on the Georgian Bay. One one occasion a mariner reported hearing the whistle at the Western Islands, about 35 miles from Midland. Now Edwin Letherby, owner of the dismantled mill, is happy when he hears the familiar sound of the mill whistle as it signals the arrival in the Bay of the A. A. Hudson and her genial captain. Launch Minesweeper Toronto, Jan. 29.—The H.M.C.S. Georgian, a minesweeper for the : Royal Canadian Navy, slipped down the ways to a perfect broadside I launching in the waters of Lake : Ontario at 12.05 p.m. yesterday. Two Ships Added To Canadian Navy ,a , A West Coast Canadian Port, Jan. 23.—Two war vessels of the mine-sweeper type were added to Canada's growing naval strength yesterday in a launching and double christening at this west coast port. One of the vessels, newly constructed, slid down the ways into the water for the first time. The second, already launched, was christened by Mrs. J. H. King, wife of Senator King, who acted as sponsor for both vessels. The newly-launched vessel was christened Minas and the second Wasaga.