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.

 

Tugboat Race 2015 in

. . . the Detroit River, an international race.  See my post here from four years ago for this quite eclectic set of boats.

Sheila Kaye and Josephine,

J. M. Westcott II,

R & R,

Jessie T,

and more.

I wonder if there’s ever a chance of getting a higher horsepower class to arrive some year as well . ..  like Ken Boothe Sr., Everlast, GL Ostrander, Samuel de Champlain, Jane Ann IV . . . and their size.

 

All photos by Jan van der Doe, taken the same day as the Mermaid Parade and the last run of Pegasus.