Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: tug

And a barge named Harvey. Army Corps of Engineers at Sault Ste. Marie.

I think the tug is Manitou, but didn't get a really good view. This photograph is far below my usual standard....

Not to mention the Tower of History, and museum ship Valley Camp. Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, of course.

Barbie Dean hardly looks big enough to be useful. But here she is snugged up against a barge in the channel at Canadian Sault.

Huron Belle's been a Port Huron-based pilot boat since she was built in 1979. Navigating a large ship through the Detroit River/Lake St. Clair/St. Clair River system requires expertise, and the Lakes Pilots Association provides that expertise to salt water ships transiting these waters. This boat delivers and retrieves pilots as the big ships pass.

At Alpena.

At Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan (MCM Marine, I think). The smaller tugs are Peach State & Beaver State.

Shot from Cheboygan State Park. Bois Blanc Island in the background.

Durocher Marine's tug, pushing a barge named Kokosing 2 (after Durocher's parent company). The Lighthouse Cruise's last stop was at Cheboygan; after a brief tour of the harbor our ship returned to her home port, Mackinaw City.

At Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.

Beejay ( Di's note says Bee Jay; the sign can be read either way) lives near the Upper Harbor ore dock in Marquette. She's pretty small. Don't know, and can't find, much about her, but we offer some reasonable speculations.... Presumably she belongs to Cleveland Cliffs/LS&I, since she's anchored next to the LS&I dock (actually, in the slip beside the harbormaster's shack). Doesn't look like she gets out much anymore, but perhaps someone fires her up every now and then. LIkely she used to push the ships snug against the dock, before the builders installed bow thrusters on most of the Lakers.

And another, very small, tug. At Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.

At Essar Steel Algoma, in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. There's just an amazing array of tugs scattered around the Soo canal....

Been reading about the history of the Duluth-Superior harbor for the past few days, which sent me looking for photos. This one dates from 1990 and shows tug Essayons at, I think, the Bunge Dock on Duluth's Rice Point. I shot it from the harbor tour boat with a cheap point-&-shoot camera. Essayons was originally Corps of Engineers tug, as her name suggests (that name's the Corps' slogan, which can be translated "Let us try.") The vessel was later sold to Zenith Dredge, and later yet to a private owner who planned to convert her into a waterborne B&B. Since I've not been able to find dates for those transactions, I'm not sure who owned her when the photo was taken. In the late 70s she was converted from steam to diesel power. Her old powerplant is on display at the Duluth Marine Museum, the installation of which is discussed here . A couple years ago she sank in this slip at the age of 101 years. This was her second sinking, I'm told, and the third major mishap of her career. When we visited Duluth in 2009 all that was visible was the top of her cabin and most of the stack .

At Port Huron, with Sarnia across the way. Presque Isle is technically a barge with a tug tucked into her stern, but both have the same name and they've rarely been separated and have always operated as a single ship. In fact, they're so effectively a single ship that the Coast Guard didn't buy Litton Industry's argument that the combination justified the (lower) staffing levels required for tug-barge operations, so she carries a full crew. Now operating as part of the CN Great Lakes fleet, but for many years she was the only ship on the Lakes wearing Litton colors on her stack.

Port Huron, Michigan, 1995. This was the first time I saw this barge (and the first time I took Joan out boat watching). Real fresh paint that day. Not the prettiest thing on the lakes, and a dreadfully dull name for the barge. But an interesting vessel. Photo taken with my Genesis III and very fast film. Most of the pix in the set have that streak....

Missabe Railroad's tug, Edna G, docked in retirement next to the ore dock she long helped service at Two Harbors, Minnesota. The Two Harbors Lighthouse is barely visible out near the end of the spit of land. Posted for Bulldog1 . Hi, Suzy! Taken in 1990 with my Minolta Freedom 100. Further proof that it's possible to take fine photographs with inexpensive cameras. This photo used to be on another site. New, far better, scan posted May 20, 2006.

In general, I prefer to properly identify my ship photographs. In this case, I can't, although I suspect the name of this tug is obvious to some folks.... Tug boat at the Soo, in the Sabin Lock. August for sure; 1990, I think. Camera: Chinon Genesis III