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Tug Fast In Ice Off Gaspe j Has An Ontario Crew Of 18 Relayed dispatches from Rimouski report the Great Lakes timber tug Guardian, icebound off the Gaspe shore and likely to remain in her present berth until spring. She is commanded by Captain A. H. Black-well, of 202 Woodycrest ave., Toronto, and has a crew of 18. After a thorough overhaul at Port Dalhousie, the Guardian left the Great Lakes tor deep sea service about the end of November. All her crew are said to be Ontario men. She is reported to have been but a few hours sailing time behind the ill-fated Eureka, reported missing a few days ago in lower St. Lawrence waters. The Guardian is reported to have sheltered in a Gaspe cove and to have been solidly iced in by a barrier ten miles wide. She is said to be in no particular danger of damage by ice and her crew may walk ashore over the ice if they choose to do so. The Guardian was built at Montreal in 1906. She is 135 feet b.p. and 142 feet over all. Her beam is 25 feet and her moulded draught 14 feet. She is strongly powered by triple expansion engines which rate a considerably higher propulsive capacity than those of the average canal size lake freighter, although the Guardian is only about one-third the size of a canaler. Car Ferries And Coal Vessels Keep Busy on Great Lakes Runs, But Find Going Difficult Because of Ice—Tanker Continues to Carry.Gasoline on ^ Toledo, Detroit and Cleveland Route- Kaiser's First Ship Splits Apart, Sinks While Tied at Dock Portland, Ore., Jan. 18.— (CP)—Complete secrecy today guarded the mysterious sinking of the giant tanker Schenectady, the first vessel built by the Henry J. Kaiser Swan Island shipyard here. The 16,500-ton ship split apart Saturday night and sank to the Williamette river bottom while tied up at the outfitting dock. Steel plates ripped three feet apart at level of the deck, which remained above water. Cause of the mishap was undetermined immediately. Shipyard and maritime commission officials said an investigation was being pressed. They refused other comment. Newsmen were barred from the scene. There was no indication whether the vessel, delivered to the maritime commission 16 days ago, could be salvaged. Thirty crewmen were aboard the ship, but the only injury was a broken foot suffered by the third officer, who jumped from bridge to deck. Launch Carrier Camden, N.J., Jan. 18.— (AP)—The aircraft carrier Cowpens — fourth United States carrier launched here in 20 weeks and a day —went down the ways at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation yards yester-day. v New Aircraft Carrier Bears Name Yorktown Newport News, Va., Jan. 21.— (AP)—Another Yorktown, to replace the United States aircraft carrier sunk by the Japanese last June in the battle of Midway, will be launched this afternoon at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company plant. Taking up the fight where her predecessor left off, the new Yorktown will follow the earlier ship's tradition in having as sponsor Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. found." The communique's announcement that the Port Arthur had destroyed a submarine came one week to the day from the announcement that another Canadian corvette, the Ville de Quebec, commanded by Lieut.-Cmdr. Robert Ernest Coleman, R.C.N.R.. of Mont-real, had destroyed a German U- b°"imOT'. «•«* ~«n,Prt and Winter navigation of the Great Lakes continues active in selected .areas, especially by U.S. Government craft, and may last throughout the ice season regardless of cost of operation. On Lake Michigan powerful car ferries continue on their regular translake runs as they _ have done every winter since the inception of their service. Most of their ice troubles are encountered in the harbors of Ludington, Frankfort and Menominee in Michigan, and Manitowoc, Keewanee and Milwaukee in Wisconsin. Car ferries also are keeping their channels open across the Straits of Mackinaw, but those that ordinarily •engage in moving motorists and their cars and trucks are feeling the effect of wartime motor transport restrictions and the general curtailment of automobile traffic. The Cleveland ferries of the Pere Marquette Railway are being used this winter by U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ior the training of seamen and officers^ Coast guardsmen rode on all lake-wise merchant vessel last season as security guards and received shipboard training. Car ferries were the first lake vessels to be used by U.S. navy for training in the present war. In the first Great War hundreds of navy men received their training on Great Lakes freighters. CARRIES COAL TO DETROIT The steamer James Watts, a sturdy freighter owned by Nicholson Transit Co. of Detroit, continues to run coal cargoes from Toledo, O., for the Ford Motor C, but has been availing herself f the service f the empany's icebreaking tug on recent trips. Records of th Ore and Coal Exchange show that the Watts moved seven cargoes during the first half of January, 1943. A little tanker of "canal size" class, the Parafex. operated on the Great Lakes by the Gulf Oil Corporation of New York, was entered at Cleveland on Jan. 3 with gasoline from Toledo and was scheduled to make several trips from Toledo to Detroit and to return to Cleveland. The tanker Mexoil. owned and operated by Great Lakes Transport Corporation of Detroit, laid up in mid-January after a post season moving of oil from Detroit to Trenton. Mich., an hour's run up the Detroit River. The company's barge Fueloil is reported continuing this short run for an indefinite time. Lake Erie sand carriers have ceased their seasonal operations, but will not be laid up for long, and Lake Erie's only remaining carferry, Ashtabula, owned by the Pennsylvania-Ontario Transportation Co. of Cleveland, has discontinued her trips between Ashtabula, Ohio, and Port Burwell, Ont. Sand digging on Lake Ontario appears to be ended for the present, but the Cobourg car ferries, the two Ontarios, are reported to be continuing their daily runs to and from Rochester.