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THE f?MiNG TELEGRAM, TSft.3 One of Ihe highlights of the heavy-wartime movement of coal from U.S. to Canada is the increase of tonnage transiting the Welland Canal in 1944. For the first three months of the present season of navigation canal coal movement was about 750,000 tens greater than in the corresponding period of 1843 and up to June 20 a total of 2,500,000 tons was reported passed through the canal. It is expected 1944 will set an all-time high tonnage record above the present high of 13,232,263 net tons for 1941. Coal, oil, ore and grain have provided the major items of traffic in the in the order With the to the frei Dalhousie, known Grea 1 lor this season of repairs ifi at Port nine well -...........___„^^__isels that have-been lease loanetMo British Ministry of Shippin deep sea service after a dkao to the lakes. She had dHM^^^V1'"" on the Atlani ^^^t other eight vessels gr< ,o Chelan, Cova i Great I jrn ginee Bay Quarries i d in his control roon J. L. Reiss died of a Although 48 years old and twice i "totally wrecked," the freighter Mowhawk Deer is still dome well iffunHrCSBes service and capable of carrying her full cargo of 265,000 bushels of wheat in fit and proper way. She has changed her name to Mowhawk Deer from Rivrjjjjpn after aground for three "weeks last j fall in Georgian Bay, and very I seriously damaged. She was purchased and rebuilt by Mowhawk Navigation Co. of Montreal. Before slie was transferred to Canadian registry and rechristened Riverton, she was a U.S. vessel, the L. C. Waldo, and was a constructive 181s* when driven ashore on Lake Superior in the great gale o! 1913. So far from curtailing the volume of its shipbuilding program, as: erroneously reported in some places, the United States Maritime Commission has awarded contracts for the building of 262 additional cargo ships with an aggregate of about 2,500,000 deadweight tons, all of which must be completed by July. 1945. to meet the constantlygrowing 'ious arn»^i"services. 10,000th boat buMsbr U.S Navy by Higgins In. Incor- porated has been launched: .at New Orleans, La. LAUNCH MINESWEEPER. r.S, Marvel'. Algerine mine-was launched at 9.30 today, and christened by her hull-building foreman, Oscar Brooks. The keel of H.M.S. Nerissa will be laid in the B«i,LH"lrrTaT"Marvel has I vacated. Ten keels have been laid ' so far this year by the Redfern Construction Co.'s shipbuilding division, and 11 vessels have been launched. The keels of 16 Algerines were laid at the Toronto shipyard in 1943, and 15 ships were launched. In 1942 13 keels were laid and .eight ships launched. . Ten Toronto built Algerines were cemmissioned in 1943 and nine, so far, in the present year. SHIP EVERY FIVE DAYS. Since Pearl Harbor the U.S. Steel subsidiary, Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., has built at its Kearny, N.J., yards 12 C-2 car~o ships, each of 10.000 tons, and. 14 C-2'.s converted^, to combat cargo j ships, two tankfg, two cruisers of] yen troopships of 'nd 58 destroyers. k, N.Y., yard the \ destroyer escorts, ifg craft, infantry, large, and 9ium landing ships. The rate of production figures at a ship every five days. Expect To Release S.S. Kingston To-Day Kingston, Sept. 8—Officials of the Pyke Salvage Co. said the grounded Canada Steamship Lines vessel, :ston. has been swung broadside to trie St. Lawrence River current and they anticipate the vessel which went aground yesterday on Hammond Shoals, near Alexandria Bay, /*?.Y., would be released later today. Vickers Delivers 26th Corvette . Montreal, Sept. 11 (CP). — The frigate HMCS Poundmaker, named after a famous chief of the Cree Reservation outside North Battle-ford, Sask., was delivered to the Royal Canadian Navy today by Canadian Vickers Limited. ^^^^^H The ship was the 26th frij pleted by Canadian Vick] nt hs. Two have beei the United States Nai ( Royal.Navy and the r& iyal Canadian Navy. Hp Repaired Kingston, Ont., Sept. 12—(CD-Officials'? at the Kingston Shipbuilding Company, said last night the Canada Steamship Lines passenger steamer Kingston which was released from a shoal in the St. Lawrence river east of Alexandria j Bay, N.Y., late Saturday, will be I discharged from drydock to-day and leave for Rochester, N.Y. .^ CRUISE PARTY CALLS . The passenger steamer, North American, Georgian Bay Line, arrived at Toronto, Saturday, with a cruise party from Chicago. She was! entered from her last stop-over; Thorold, and cleared for Rochester, her next port of call. DALHOUSIE CITY TO REST Dalhousie City leaves to-day on her last outbound trip of the season. She will be laid up at Port Dalhousie, and her sister, Northumberland, will handle Toronto-Port Dalhousie traffic on a schedule of one-1 a-day trips Monday to Friday and two a day on Saturdays and Sundays until Sept. 25. S.S. KINGSTON FREED The C.S.L, passenger steamer Kingston, which grounded in the St. Lawrence River east of.. Alexandria Bay, N.Y., Thursday morning last, was released by the Pyke Salvage Company late Saturday afternoon. The steamer went to Kingston under her own steam and entered the drydock at the Kingston Shipbuilding Co. Extent of the damage is unknown. The vessel grounded en route from Toronto to Prescott, .with 350 passengers. They were taken off byte tug after the ship grounded, but #ie crew remained on .board. None if the passengers 6r crew wast, pjured. Steam Yacht Sold Halifax, Sept. 12.—The Strathcona II, a steam yacht once owned by the late Sir Wilfred Grenfell and used for many "years by the Grenfell Missions to deliver medical supplies to Labrador outposts, anchored here during the week-end. The vessel has been purchased by a local shipping company. Steamer Sold Kingston, Ont., Sept. 14.—(CP) —The composite steamer, Stoney Lake, owned by the Stoney Lake Navigation Company, Ltd., of Peterboro', has been purchased by Kingston interests and will operate on the St. Lawrence river next summer as a passenger steamer, Capt. Ross Carnegie, manager x of the firm, announced last night. The steamer will be brought to Kingston from Peterboro' immediately.