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Served 3 Years, Grand Old Ship Returns Home tf H.M.C.S. Avalon II as she appeared as a dockyard barracks in Newfoundland. StJoWs------ ^Newfoundland Pui't One of the greatest ovations ever given a ship of the Royal Canadian Navy was accorded the weather-beaten old HMCS Avalon II. when she left this port recently after a three-year term as a dockside barracks. (Word has been received that she | arrived safely in Canada despite the i fact that, in her usual capricious j manner, she sailed through a war zone with only a couple of revolvers as "armament.") ^ Sckh'S As she passed down hop MawfeuwA hnwt harbor on her way back to Canada, fighting warships tooted their whistles in an affectionate farewell salute, and crews massed on deck to give her "three cheers and a tiger." The bulky, \w«il»ii hulled ship, which, as S.S. Georgian, carried thou, sands of passengers out of Detroit west through the Great Lakes in peactime days, wasn't strong enough guns and depth charges.. i.-r career she had lain at] the bottom of the lakes, been salvaged, and put back into service.? The RCN brought her to Newfoundland as a barracks. Spacious dining saloons made excellent mess halls and roomy cabins fine accommodation for the men. It is estimated that several thousand sailors passed through, the ship and called it "home" during her three-year stay in Newfoundland. And as they cheered, she sailed out of the harbor with her head held high, with the dignity of a proud old warhorse going to a well-earnsd rest. BREAKS GREAT LAKES RECORD—The Canada steamer Lemoyne, largest freighter on the lakes, a: Company of'Canada docks yesterday with the re gWMlMcoal. A glimpse of the bow of the heavily above as sHe tied up at the dock of the Steel Cor master, Capt. C. E. Robinson. Capt. Robinson was lated by F. W. Dean, traffic manager of the Steel ship (fljftked about 2.10 p.m. yesterday. amship Lines at the Steel rgo of 18,116 ^vessel is seen her tu-the .. Ins jmd Compan; set«£ 1 ry.-iis't Seven Lakes-Built Tankers Delivered Seven 350-foot oil tankers, built in Duluth and Superior for South American trade of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, have been delivered to New Orleans over a 2247-mile inland American water route. The tankers descended 600 feet in the long inland journey, around 400 feet of which was the natural descent of the Mississippi River from the Illinois Waterway terminus. The ships made one lockage, through the St. Marys Falls Canal in the Great Lakes, and nine in the Illinois Waterway. Chief hazards on the long trip were bridges spanning the Chicago canal and shoals in the shifting channel of the Mississippi, the Associated Press reported from New York. The San Joaquin, first of the ships, made the trip in 20 dav=