Random Tugs 173

Let’s pick it up in Toledo, OH and the century-old GL tug Mississippi.

“Dieselized” 41 years after its launch, it still steers with a brass tiller in the wheelhouse, as demonstrated here by Captain Stabler.

Keep good paint and in repair, and a 1929 tug like  Nebraska still has lots of life left.  Compare that boat to its terrestrial counterpart, a 1929 Mack truck.

Mighty John III is a 1962 tugboat. The bands in the water distinguish sunlight from shadow in the Maumee silt water.

 

Sea Eagle II is Louisiana built but now flagged Edmonton, AB.

 

Pioneerland dates from 1943.

Titan, here in the River Rouge, dates from 1940.

Sheila Kaye is 65′ loa built in 1943.  Was it originally a government boat?

Here in the St. Clair River is a small unit about which I know nothing.  That’s Canada on the far bank.

Karen Andrie dates from 1965.

And finally, from my sister in Frankfort MI, it’s the 1956 Kurt R. Luedtke.

The last photo comes from my sister;  all others by Will Van Dorp.

 

Go West 14

And the trip goes on . . . here heading for the Straits, where it seems there are underwater sights I missed.

Meanwhile, on the surface of the top of Lakes Huron and Michigan, there are plenty of things to look at, like this old ChrisCraft and

1944 fish tug Richard E. 

After we pass White Shoal light, we encounter traffic

like Karen Andrie and

“maritimer” Mississagi.

From morning to night, there were small boats fishing and larger

ones –like this unidentified Algoma Central Corporation dry bulker–

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until day ends over Wisconsin.

 

All photos by Will Van Dorp.