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H.MJSJ_Golden Fleece was launched yesterday at Toronto shipyard, end like her sister, H.M.S. Flying Xish, she took the water without ceremony. Veteran loftsman, David Mcpherson, broke a bottle of champagne on her forefoot as .she started down the ways. Golden Fleece's keel was laid Oct. 25, 1943. On Feb. J7 she was moved on rollers from fcer own building berth to another | that is available for launching op lation. | TO LAUNCH ICEBREAKER The $10,000,000 icebreaker M^y : inaw. three times as heavy as 1 ¦ average destroyer and nearly ! large as a light cruiser, is ready ! christening and launching at t | Toledo Ship Building Co. SaturdE ; She will not be ready for serv [ until autumn. Built for the U.S. Coast Glial she will be used to break ice fc Great Lakes iron ore, grain and co; carriers, and for salvage, trainii and cargo work during open season!1 The ship, designed after a world wide study of similar craft, has be> | under construction more than year. She will displace 5,090 ton will be 260 feet long, with maximum beam of 70 feet and ship's company of 12 officers and 164 men. NVJ.S IS *H1 Chicago Bridge Company to Build Six Barges for War Department The War Department has awarded a contract to the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company, Chicago, 111., for the construction of six steel harbor barges, each having a length of 195 feet, a beam of 35 feet, and a depth of 11 feet. Twentyfour hours after H.M.S. Golden Fleece was launched aTTo-ftffltft shipyard, a local dignitary who missed seeing the launching, asked permission to see the laying of the keel of H.M.S. Maenad in the building berth tKaTTJoIden Fleece had vacated. "We're working on it now," he was told. "Come and see." When he saw the layout of keel blocking skilly assembled, alligned and levelled by shipwrights, central girder and keel plates already in place, a crew of riveters at work, and two tractor cranes handling material to busy riggers and fitters, he asked "Now where will they find room to lay the keel of the new ship?" "That's her," he was told. Then it was explained to him that laying the keel of a steel ship is largely a figure of speech, and that the so-called keel consists of an assembly of several fabricated members. C.S.L. HAS 59 SHIPS The Great Lakes fleet of Canada Steamship Lines musters 59 vessels in active operation. It is much the biggest of all Canadian lake fleets and second only to the great U.S. fleet of Pittsburgh Steamship Lines. Its flagship Lj;-.' holds more bulk-carrying records than any other two vessels on the lakes and there are few branches of lakes traffic in which C.S.L, does not participate. IMI"-,^ Launching of U.S. frigate, Racine, at Cleveland, O., Is schedule"!) Tor March 15. Launching date of H.M. Algerine minesweeper. Lioness, at Toronto has been set fofBRfrch 16. So two more lakes-built fighting ships will be added to the muster of the Allied Nations navies. A pageant of pomp and ceremony will feature the Cleveland launching. Mrs. Francis Wendt, wife of the Mayor of Racine, Wis., will christen the namesake frigate of her native city. It is planned to have H.M.S. Lioness slide off the ways here as soon as she is ready for launching, and no ceremony has been arranged other than the routine work of launching by the master builder and the breaking of a bottle of champagne on the sweeper's forefoot. y»»S«&»J8&Stae is reported to measure 100 feet greater length than H.M.S. Lipnajs. and considerably greater length than may be accommodated in the locks of the St. Lawrence canals. So it appears probable that to reach tidewater, jjlacine must go up the lakes to Chicago and down the Illinois Waterways and the Mississippi River to New Orleans, possibly aided by supporting pontoons. c <« <U .3 £> w 0J o s^j s 'si 2 u> o.ogo £.!!„§ ¦ c n C* g <u "J -3 « i 33 o h p, ^ W ^ "1 W ! ^ ^ xn w ; C ccOTi-J i Bituminous-Coal Movement in January M^^^^^ The January movement of bituminous coal on the Great Lakes—a record for the month—totaled 78,462 net tons and all was dumped at the New York Central dock in Toledo and went to River Rouge, Mich., records of the Ore and Coal Exchange show. In addition to the il were dumped at var: cargo tonnage, 1164 tons of coa The James ll'alt has joined the /:. C'. Pope in the western Lake Erie coal run and the two Nicholson Transit Company ships are moving a cargo each, about 10,000 tons, daily to River Rouge. Kinsman Transit Fleet The Kinsman Transit Company will have a fleet of five ships in the Great Lakes iron ore, coal and grain trades this season, addition of the /:. C'. Collins and McGilvrax Sliiras being announced yesterday. Sale of the ships to Kinsman was announced by the Pittsburgh Steamship Company, through its president, A. H. Ferbert. The two 420-footers were built in 1904 and earn- around 6700 tons of cargo each. Other ships owned by Kinsman are the //. /.. Pjndlay. Philip Mineh and Henry Steinbrenner. The fleet's flagship, the George M. Humphrey, sank in the Straits of Mackinac last year after a collision. C. & B. Steamship Co. Charters Ship The Cleveland & Buffalo Steamship Co. of Illinois. which took the name of the Cleveland company a few-years ago when it purchased the former luxury cruise steamer Seeandhce, announces from its Chicago headquarters an expansion for 1944. It has chartered the steamer Theodore Roosevelt which lay idle last year but in 1942 ran out of Cleveland to Bob-Lo Island in the Detroit River. The Roosevelt will make daily trips out of Chicago to Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Mich., as well as nightly sky-line cruises. The line's Citv of Grand Rapids will make biweekly cruises from Chicago to Mackinac Island.