This no-nonsense machine . . .
I can show you but tell you nothing about. I don’t know.
Nearby, Haskell was built in 1936, but that’s all I know.
The photos above I took in Holland MI, and the rest . . . in Sturgeon Bay, WI Chas. Asher dates from 1967, and I know nothing about the one on shore.
Here’s that same “high and dry” tug seen in profile.
Spuds–now THAT is a name for a small tug, was launched from 1944.
Duluth appears to have a proud owner; she came off the ways in 1954.
Here, Duluth moves a dump scow up to the bulkhead on the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal, where her very wet dredge spoils will be offloaded.
All photos by Will Van Dorp.
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September 3, 2017 at 11:10 am
Robin Denny. Windsor, UK.
MC8733NT- what a super wee tug! Against the larger ones she is as a lawn-mower to a combine harvester.
September 3, 2017 at 11:39 am
tugster
Well said, Robin
September 4, 2017 at 12:15 pm
William Lafferty
Haskal (officially Haskell) was built for the Corps of Engineers in 1936 by Marine Iron & Shipbuilding at Duluth. It came into the private sector in 1964 and is usually tied up on the south shore of Lake Macatawa. The Spuds was built for Captain John Roen at his Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding & Drydock Company yard at Sturgeon Bay. It has been in the Roen and Asher families ever since. The unidentified tug in profile is the Louie S, built 1956 also by and for Roen at Sturgeon Bay. I believe the other unidentified is the Timmy A, built 1953 at Jacksonville for W. T. Burke of that city and came north in the mid-60s for Roen. All these tugs are in current documentation.
September 9, 2017 at 5:30 pm
Ferryman Glen
There is a nearly identical wee tug like the no nonsense machine in the first two pics in Toledo, Oregon with a 371 Detroit in it that was used for moving logs around the log ponds and for making up log rafts. Perhaps that was its first iteration. I will try to get a pic
September 24, 2017 at 4:55 am
Sartenada
They are awesome. Happy Sunday!