Canal Corp Boats 11

Besides larger tugboats like Urger, the Canal has a fleet of nearly identical smaller ones called dredge tenders, or usually just “tenders” like the unidentified one to the left in the photo below.

Here’s a set:  Tender #1

Tender #3 stern and

bow and

at work moving Urger out of dry dock.

Tender #4 in February 2014, and

tender #4 after being electrified, and

at work in Utica this summer.

Tender #6.

Tender #7 summer and

bow in winter, with an unidentified tender (registry at MB 5900??) and tender 4 in the distance.

Tender #9 profile and

three fourths.

Tender #10 on the hard and

assisting a dredge.

Tender with identifier ending in 0209,

. ..  0308

. . . 0313 aka Dana?

Dana again.

Again, I need to dig into the history of this class of Canal vessel.  What number was this?

 

and why is it here?  How many others are there?

All photos by Will Van Dorp.

 

 

Canal Corp Boats 4

In order . .  . .  Governor Roosevelt with Tender#4,  Tender #4 with electric motor and unique stack, Urger, Seneca and Tender Dana on the nose, Tender Dana, “newish” antiques on Lake Oneida east end, dredge and Tender #10, Tender T-7, Governor Cleveland, Dragon dredge, derrick boat.  As to the tenders, think . .  a vessel for tending dredges and other vessels.  For Dragon dredge, I’ve no idea about the story there.