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Gales batter East coast; B 2 seamen lost HALIFAX (CP) - Gales and freezing spray battered East Coast shipping yesterday and left two seamen dead. Winds gusting to 60 miles an hour Wednesday and yesterday kept most vessel in port but those caught at sea reported mountainous seas and heavily iced superstructures. Earl Albert of Caraquet, N.B. was swept overboard from a fishing vessel off southern Newfoundland early yesterday. He was on watch aboard the Nov Scotia-owned herring seiner Canada, Club, fishing out of fiurgeoT Nfld. When a fellow seaman came on duty to relieve him at 5 a.m., he cout not be found. Raymond Macintosh, 27, of Lockeport, N.S., is missing and presumed drowned after he and another member of the crew were swept overboard from the gawler SJiV^Lawr-ence. James H. Lloyd, a teenager aboard the trawler, was swept overboard with Macintosh, but was rescued. The ice-coated dragger Marion.. Crouse sank Wednesday ifter taking on water through several leaks in her hull. The vessel's captain and the crew of two, all from Yarmouth, abandoned the 89-foot vessel minutes before she went down with 300,000 pounds of fish aboard off Port Haw- ; kesbury, N.S. She was bound for Georgetown, P.E.I. The men were taken from their lifeboat by the oil tanker ^erialAcadJa and returned toPorTHawki ; empress sold *¦ r < lawkesbury. I r T a: hi CP Ships of London has sold its 25,000-ton liner Empress-of England to the Sfiaw Savill Line, "a subsidiary of Furness, Withy and Co. Ltd. of London, for an undisclosed price. When launched in 1956, she cost $30-million. Shaw Savill plans to rename the Empress and use her as a one-class passenger liner on a route from Southampton to South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. f ship Freight Association at its recent annual meeting. SHIPYARD CLOSING Newfoundland Shipyards Ltd. of Clarenville, 110 miles west of St. John's, has gone into voluntary liquidation, because, a spokesman says "no one wants wooden ships any ^OTU^HICT? "~ Transport Minister Donald Jamie son toM»* -