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H.M.S. Gozo Launched In Toronto: 2-S" City lugs broke the tee for the launching- of H.M.S. Com yesterday afternoon and the ship took her initial ¦iip without so much as scratching her sizing paint. The boy in the picture, watching the newly-launched ressel as the tugs wangle her through the ice to the itting slip, is an apprentice who gives every promise of becoming a true shipbuilder. To have his information absolutely right he asked the assistant works superintendent about the ship's naming and the superintendent took time out of one of the busiest hours of his life to tell the budding shipyard man what he wanted to know. It's a way that they have around shipyards. H.M.S Gozo was launched yesterday from the ways of Toronto Shipbuilding Co. She is one of a series of minesweepers in process of construction, at Toronto, of a class and type that is generally regarded as the most useful and effective so far designed by naval architects of the Allied Nations. She is one of the few ships in the world that has taken a voyage before she was launched. Gozo's first voyage was a short one on rollers from the building berth in which her keel was laid to the one from which she was launched, a distance of a over 200 feet. It was an entirely successful voyage, directed by Toronto Ship's foreman .Jimmy Glendennina. In fact i super successful because the boss 'I a discrepanc keel blocki nenl during the process of moving the ship. Announcement Gomes Week to Day of Word That Corvette VIEie de Quebec Also Had Sunk a toman U-Boat Allied Headquarters, North Africa, Feb. 1.— (CP)—An Allied communique to-day announced that the Canadian corvette Port Arthur had destroyed an Italian submarine with gunfire and depth charges when it attempted to attack a convoy in the western Mediterranean. r\ f - Freighter, Corvette Slide Down Ways A West Coast Canadian Port, Feb 4 — (CP) - A 10,000-ton freighter to deliver the goods and a trim naval corvette-to help guard the sea lanes were launched here yesterday within an hour of one another. Work at one shipyard halted briefly as the freighter Fort Wrigley was sent down the ways. An hour later, at another yard, Mrs. Velma Gregory Allen, a shipyard employee, sped the corvette Prince Rupert on its way. Survivors Tell Of Stern Fight To Reach Shore Battle Against Wind, Tide and Seas For Twelve Hours After Ocean Tragedy Vancouver, Jan. 23.—(CP)—The desperate struggle for life following the foundering of the coastal freighter Northolm was told Friday by two survivors—Chief Officer Ray Perry and Able Seaman I Henry Gerbrandt. Fifteen seamen i perished when the vessel foundered i off the north end of Vancouver I island last Saturday.