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_2. Supe. —Lake Owing to high water condition, shipping at Picton has been suspended. Difficulty has been experienced in loading the freighters which call. In addition, the warehouses where the canned goods are stored are partly flooded, When there is a tide these are entirely flooded with several inches of water. The docks are under ten inches of water. The office portion of the warehouse is flooded by six inches of water, necessitating removal of equipment. It is expected the high water conditions will prevail for another month at least. ANOTHER SUPERIOR The steamer Superior No. 4, reported sunk in collision in St. Clair River, has not been identified as the Canadian freighter Superior of the Northwest Steamship Lines. That vessel is reported loading at. Goderich. She is 255 feet long. 38 feet, two inches beam and 19 feet, seven inches depth. Her gross tonnage is 1,774 and her net 1,054. She originally was named Parkes Foster and was built at Cleveland in 1889. Vj.. Co mi tory—v. ington The British-owned 255-foot freighter Coggin, laden with lend-lease grain, "was damaged when it struck an old wooden passenger-boat dock on Harben's Island in a channel of the St. Clair River south of Algonac, Mich., last night. The dock was smashed but extent of damage to the ship was not immediately determined. The accident was attributed to a broken steering apparatus. The Coggin is a sister ship of the William Brewster, which was sunk with its 90,000-bushel wheat cargo in a collision here last Tuesday. The Coggin had loaded at Port Arthur. HISTORY IS MADE For the first time in history a naval vessel was commissioned at Owen Sound in the shipyards of Russell Brothers, Ltd. The brief ceremony took place in the presence of the officers and crew who are taking the tug Glendower to her destination. The heacTS of the firm who had built the vessel and a great many of the men who had helped build her were present. As the Red Ensign on the jackstaff of the tug was lowered and the White Ensign of the British Navy was flown the men cheered lustily. The Glendower is a steel-welded 80-foot tug, and presented a particularly smart appearance at the ceremony. Lieut. James W. Howey, officer commanding, addressed spectators. Colin Russell, president of the building firm, expressed the hope the vessel would at all times perform well and truly. C. H. Young, principal ship overseer at both Owen Sound and Collingwood shipyards, accepted the ship on behalf of the government. Steamer Drydocked Kingston, Ont., June 22.—(CP)— The Canadian Steamships Lines vessel, ss. Rapids Prince, has been taken out of service between Prescott, Ont., and Montreal to undergo repairs, it was announced yes-; terday. Passengers bound for I Montreal will be carried by rail j I from Brockville, Ont. j Freighter Collides With Algonac Dock Sarnia, June 22. — The Coggin, 225-foot British-owned freighter, smashed into an old wooden passenger boat dock on Hursen's island near Algonac, Mich., south of here Sunday night when its steer- j ing apparatus broke, sending the ' ship out of control. The Coggin is a sister ship of the William Brewster, which was ram- I med and sunk on her maiden voyage with 90,000 bushels of lease- ¦ lend wheat last Tuesday five miles ! north of the scene of Sunday's mishap. The Brewster is still lying on its side, out of the channel. The dock which the Coggin struck was at Joe Bedard's Hotel and was reported to have been cut in two by the impact. The vessel anchored at the scene in 30 to 40 feet of water following the collision. service in uic l,tuiug «, cia wen patronized as ever. _^-REMOVE VESSEL The tug Alpena, which was sunk last week in Huron, O., harbor in the entrance channel at a point opposite the Old Light Foundation about 1,200 feet shoreward of the Huron Light (L.L. No. 345) with her extremities about 120 feet and 195 feet channelward from the face of the west pier has been removed. During removal operations the channel was closed to navigation for 24 hours. Probe Cras.. Alpina and l... Lake Ontario k Coloi Toronto Shipbuilding Co. Will Speed Up War Work b Outfitting Naval Vessels at New Hamilton Branch — More Help Needed at } vi*u~e V Port Dalhousie Drydock The Great Lakes Towing Co., of Cleveland, has opened an inquiry into the collision of its tug Alpena and the freighter Edmund W. Mudge, resulting in the loss of Capt. Charles Carston, 62, of the Alpena and injury to two tug crew members. The vessels crashed Sunday in the Huron, O., harbor and the 68-foot steel tug sank within three minutes in about 35 feet of water, drowning the boat's captain, a Huron resident. Morris Jardine, 50, and Fred Baumler, 32, members of the Alpena's crew, werp iniured. To Reopen Bridge Napanee, June 24.—The swing | bridge over the Napanee river here, which has been closed against vessel movements for the last 20 years, is being made ready for operation again. Toronto Shipbuilding Company has completed negotiations for a dock and shop property at Hamilton and will open a branch yard there shortly to facilitate fitting out minesweepers and other naval vessels built at Toronto. Building and launching of hulls constitutes about 30 per cent, of the work in completing a minesweeper ready for commissioning and active service. In the final stages the sweeper is fitted and equipped with finely adjusted special devices, rigging, gear and machinery that are not used in any other classes of ships. More time and skilled work is taken in their installation than in the fitting and equipment of two modern merchant ships of ten times the minesweeper's tonnage. The propulsive power installation of a sweeper is the equivalent horse power of a 10,000-ton merchant vessel and its electrical control devices are more numerous than the combined controls on a fleet of merchant ships. For some time a pronounced shortage of skilled craftsmen of several trades, particularly electricians, engine fitters and pipe fitters, has been reported at Toronto shipyards and there has been a dearth of supplies, especially of boilers. As a result, while the building and launching of hulls has gone forward according to schedule, fitting operations have not kept pace. In consequence the limit of capacity has been reached in the fitting slips. By moving partly completed hulls to Hamilton it is expected that the near-congestion at the fitting basin will be relieved and fitting out operations will be speeded to keep up with hull building. The dock at Hamilton will accommodate four minesweepers at a time and the adjacent shore property is ample for necessary shops and assembly bays. Frigate Christened At West Coast Port A West Coast Canadian Port, July 4 (CP). — A frigate was launched in a ceremony Saturday attended by hundreds of workers and their families. She was christened H.M. C.S. New Waterford. Special guests at the launching were AC.l J. McDonald, R.C.A.F., and his wife, both from New Waterford, N.S., the town for which the vessel was named. ^.S. Launches 11 Ships Over the Week-End New York, July 5. — (AP) — United States shipyards launched 11 ships over the week-end, nine of them designed to fight the submarine menace, as the country marked its second Fourth of July at war. Included in the launchings were four destroyers, three destroyer escorts, two submarine chasers, a liberty ship and a 104-foot barge. At Baltimore the Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyard launched its 161st liberty ship, the George M. Cohan, named for the late song j writer and actor whose birthday was on the Fourth of July.