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Wrecking tug Favorite: The Great Lakes' best-known salvage tug, likened to SS Foundation Franklin in the Canadian Maritimes. An attempt to save it at Sault Ste. Marie (next to SS Valley Camp failed when state funding failed to materialize and the riveted hull began to leak. She was scrapped in Detour Township, Michigan.
Favorite (No. 1385), a tug, was completed at Buffalo, New York, in 1907.In 1915, while still under the ownership of the Great Lakes Towing and Wrecking Company, the "Favorite" helped to salvage the SS Eastland and in the summer of 1916 it was used in a failed salvage attempt of the wreck of the SS Charles S. Price.
When first launched, the ship's wide cross-section and long midships hold was an unconventional design, but the design's relative advantages in moving cargo through the inland lakes spawned many imitators. The Hackett is recognized as the very first Great Lakes freighter, a vessel type that has dominated Great Lakes shipping for over 100 years.
Lost on Lake Huron during the Great Lakes Storm of 1913. Searchlight United States: 23 April 1907 A fishing tug lost with crew of six [16] In November 1913 some of the wreckage and the remains of an unknown crewman were found at Harbor Beach after the Great Lakes Storm of 1913 Sweepstakes Canada: September 1885
The boiler from the John Evenson steam tug now lies on the bottom of Lake Michigan. The 54-foot steam tug sank on June 5, 1895, and was finally discovered by two Wisconsin maritime historians on ...
The Sport was the first steel tug on the Great Lakes, [3] and the first vessel made of Bessemer steel in North America. [4] It was designed as a harbor tug, and first used around Wyandotte and the St. Clair River. By 1875, she was assigned to Ludington, Michigan, where Ward owned sawmills. The tug was rebuilt a number of times, and sold to a ...
It was the largest tug ever built in Chicago at the time and remained the largest and most powerful tug on the Great Lakes until its sinking in 1909. [2] Originally the boat was used for rafting logs on Lake Michigan, but in 1901 was bought (and renamed) by the Reid Wrecking Company, based in Sarnia, Ontario. [3]
Pages in category "Tugboats on the Great Lakes" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. ... Niagara (tug) O. Ottawa (tug) P. MV Point Valour; R ...