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SUNAHARA Oe li a ce an the Marine Field. | = | Latest News From Ships and Shipyards al Em H Lake Yards Get Contracts for 1920 'HAT shipbuilding on the Great Lakes is not to languish dur- ing the coming year is evi- denced by the fact that contracts have been recently i deep-water craft for 1920 delivery. This is gratifying in its acknowledge- ment of the worth of these canal-size, lake-built vessels which are now wide- ly known as they are ploughing the seven seas. Probably nowhere through- out the world are shipyards more effi- ciently managed than they are on America's vast inland seas. This claim iis supported by the splendid performance of lake-built vessels dur- ing the war emergency. The. Amer- ican Shipbuilding Co., Cleveland, it is reported, will build a number of ves- sels for 1920 delivery at tidewater, work on which will be started at an early date. Material for these boats, which are to be full Welland canal has been ordered. The Mani- size, towoc Shipbuilding Go, Manito- -woc, Wis., and the McDougall-Du- luth Co., Duluth, have each booked orders for two steamers for the At- lantic coast trade. These vessels will be delivered in 1920. All steamers now building at lake yards for the- Emergency Fleet corporation will not be delivered this season. * * * The steamer PENGUIN, a product of the Ohio Shipbuilding Co., built for the East Coast Fisheries Co., New York, passed her trial trip successfully and has left for the coast. WOR ke: The forward section of the steamer .CHartes R. Van Hise arrived. in Ash- tabula, early in November, in tow of the steamer CENTRAL WEsT.- This vessel, which was to be taken to salt water, is to be reconstructed for use on the lakes, ho a ok Enough coal to load the barge Broom and the steamers ToMLINSON, MUNISING and ALasKka, at Sandusky, was released by the government recently. The BLoom came into Sandusky harbor just before the coal at, and in the vicinity of, the Lower Lakes Dock Co.'s plant had been seized.. The other vessels arrived in Sandusky later. ee A cut has been made in the supply of fuel for Canadian steamers and boats of that class will be allowed only enough coal to take them to their home ports to lay up. i ee oe Ore carriers are being put to consid- erable trouble in getting on cargoes at the head of Lake Superior. Some of the vessels have been in port a week. The ore is frozen and is handled slowly. : announced for building | At Duluth two crews were put to work recently steaming ore on the Missabe dock. xk ee The steamer NorrH Star of the Great Lakes Transportation fleet had a rough passage coming down the lakes recently. After weathering a stiff northwest gale on Lake Superior she came through the Soo 58 hours out of Duluth. She had her starboard rail stove and lost nearly all of her deck load of shingles. * * *K The steamer Hoover & Mason lost an anchor and 150 fathoms of chain in Lake Superior recently. * * 2 The steamer A. F. Harvey recently went into drydock No. 1, Cleveland, for repairs to her. rudder. * ok 2k The steamer Keryvive had eight plates replaced while in drydock at Ashta- bula,-O. ee Steamers of the C. & B. line were held in port at both ends of the route by heavy weather during the early part of November. oe The ore firm of Harvey H. Brown & Co., Cleveland, has moved its office quarters from the sixteenth to the thir- teenth floor of the Rockefeller building. The entire sixteenth floor of the build- ing is now occupied by the Pittsburgh Steamship Co. eo ke According to a current report, a Buf- falo firm has purchased the steamers G. A. Friacc, SENECA and BETHLEHEM from the shipping board for operation on the Atlantic coast. The Frace for- merly was owned by the Calumet Trans- portation Co., of which M. A. Hanna & Co. are managers, and the SENECA and BETHLEHEM, which were' package freighters, were operated by the Lehigh Valley Transportation Co. 2K xk * A 35-mile northwest gale with snow set in at Duluth on Nov. 3 which stopped all loading and moving schedules in the harbor. The steamer G.-J. Gram- MER, after being out several hours, was compelled to return with a disabled rudder. _ * os According to a report recently re-. ceived by the underwriters, the steamer City oF MusKkecon which was wrecked at the entrance of Muskegon harbor on Oct. 29, is fast breaking up. The United States engineer in charge has asked for bids for removing the wreck. The MusKEcon was driven into the pier by a gale with which she successfully 600 battled all the way across Lake Michigan . from Milwaukee. The vessel was oper- ated by the Crosby line and the wreck is one of the worst .on the lakes this season. Fourteen persons: lost their lives while the missing were placed at 21. The steamer was insured for about $100,000 and her cargo for $56,000. She was repaired during the summer at a cost of $25,000. he & The steamers LAKEPorT and Howarb W were in collision near Coteau early in November and both vessels sustained damage. The Lakeport proceeded to Mon- treal and the Howarp W to Ogdens- burg. oe Capt. Clinton G. Ennes, a well known Great Lakes vessel captain, died at St. John's hospital, Cleveland, on Oct. 28, after a long illness. Captain Ennes was 74 years old and had followed the lakes from boyhood. Before coming to Cleve- land, he was in command of vessels of the Whitney fleet, Detroit. He brought out the steamer WILLIAM FAIRBAIN of the Bessemer fleet and until six years ago he sailed boats of the Pittsburgh fleet. His last command was the H. H. Rocers. He is survived by his widow and one son, Capt. Claude M. Ennes, who sailed steamers of the Becker fleet for a number of years. * ok * The Wisconsin Transport Co., incor- porated for $300,000, has bought the steamer PuriTtAN which came to the lakes from Boston. The company also has bought the steamer Crossy and all holdings of the Chicago, Racine & Mil- waukee line. The company will inau- gurate a daily service between Milwau- kee and Chicago and intermediate points. Among the promoters of the enterprise are HE. W. Seymour and (Rk: F. Church, Chicago; and E. O. Henderson, Milwau- kee. oe The steamer Dussautt, a sandsucker owned and operated by the Port Clin- ton Lumber & Coal Co., went aground late in October on one of the sandbars east of the entrance to Port Clinton harbor. hk ok High winds that swept Lake Erie during the latter part of October caused some damage to shipping in Buffalo harbor and delayed many vessels from putting to sea. The most serious acci- dent was a collision between the supply tug HustTLER and a passenger steamer. The tug was so badly smashed that she sank in a few minutes. The crew, how- ever, were rescued. The -steamer suf- fered no serious damage. The gale,