Type”grouper” into my search window, and you’ll get almost 10 posts, the most recent is this from December 2009. But I could have called the vessel Gary, its original name, after the city, I suppose, which itself is named after a founder of US Steel. Enjoy these fotos taken Valentine’s Day weekend 2010. Doubleclick enlarges most. Notice something
different, other than
the deep snow? Here’s a link to Gary info from the BGSU database. Enter the name “Gary ” (case sensitive), click on “begin search” and then click on the 1912 tug one.
Specs: 73′ x 19′ x 10.’ Owned from 1912 til 1934 by Dunham Towing and Wrecking, it then passed into ownership of C. Reiss Coal Co, still extant and one time owner of Reiss Steamship Company. It later did some time at Florida Marine Terminal in Miami. Anyone have fotos of the Florida portion of its life, transit north?
Next two are from Jon’s collection. As Iroquois and
before that, in Reiss colors, as Green Bay. Long and low, a perfect canaler.
As to something different about my three shots? Grouper finally faces west! In all previous posts, she faced east. Come spring, west she will go!
First three fotos by Will Van Dorp, taken on V-Day weekend.
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February 17, 2010 at 12:23 pm
Mage B
What is happening with her. Her stack is solid rust.
February 18, 2010 at 3:28 pm
tugster
mage– come spring thaw, grouper heads west to the detroit area and with good fortune, refurbishing, renovation, and a functioning stack free of rust. i hope to follow her odyssey.
May 10, 2010 at 4:29 pm
jeff
Any more news on the tug it’s may?
May 10, 2010 at 5:03 pm
tugster
grouper . .. grouper . .. grouper . . . tugster here. what is your location?