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SS est Marine News Payment Will Be Made for Acceptable Photographs SS ESS KC Se Copyright Underwood & Underwood tures nched by Supple- EINKING \THE GREAT LAKES WITH THE ATLANTIC LAUNCHING A NEW PACIFIC BUILT VESSEL Six miles of the new $150,000,000 canal at the north end of U. S. Emergency Fleet steamer Wallowa is lau Lake Champlain canal in panorama from Whitehall, N. Y. Ballin Shipbuilding Corp., Portland, Formerly the The first step in building the mold in. which the propeller is cast—Note the brick foundation necessary CONTRIBUTION FROM THE GREAT LAKES TO THE WOODEN SHIP PROGRAM lakes boasted an extensive wooden shipbuilding industry, but remote raw materials forced its abandonment. at Sturgeon Bay, Wis., is the only one constructed of wood in recent years MAKING A SHIP PROPELLER 293 Oreg. This vessel, built SOUTHERN YARD LAUNCHES ITS Bit Floating the ocean-going tug, Hermanson, built by the Gulf Shipbuilding Co., Madisonville, La. 3 .