by William Lafferty » October 13, 2016, 11:23 am
Is that tug still around on lake Winnipeg? I was out that way in the 80 s and don t recall seeing her. There was a good sized tug called the Grand Marais that was operating on the lake at that time. Just curious.
Well, yes and no. The
Granite Rock was laid up for the last time in 1972 in the Selkirk Slough at Winnipeg by Brown & Rutherford. I have a snapshot of it somewhere hauling a barge on Lake Winnipeg. I attach a photograph of how it looked the following year.
On 30 August 1978 its remains were burned off after the vessel's funnel and fore and aft compound steam engine (built by Doty at Goderich) were transported to the Marine Museum of Manitoba, as shown. It was composite construction, the steel framing built by Johnston, knocked down, and sent by rail to Winnipeg where it was reassembled and its wooden hull and cabins built.
The Russell-built
Grand Marais was laid up in the slough in 2004. In 2012 it was sold to Pierre Gagne Contracting, Ltd., Thunder Bay, and brought there the following year.
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[quote]Is that tug still around on lake Winnipeg? I was out that way in the 80 s and don t recall seeing her. There was a good sized tug called the Grand Marais that was operating on the lake at that time. Just curious.
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Well, yes and no. The [i]Granite Rock[/i] was laid up for the last time in 1972 in the Selkirk Slough at Winnipeg by Brown & Rutherford. I have a snapshot of it somewhere hauling a barge on Lake Winnipeg. I attach a photograph of how it looked the following year.
On 30 August 1978 its remains were burned off after the vessel's funnel and fore and aft compound steam engine (built by Doty at Goderich) were transported to the Marine Museum of Manitoba, as shown. It was composite construction, the steel framing built by Johnston, knocked down, and sent by rail to Winnipeg where it was reassembled and its wooden hull and cabins built.
The Russell-built [i]Grand Marais[/i] was laid up in the slough in 2004. In 2012 it was sold to Pierre Gagne Contracting, Ltd., Thunder Bay, and brought there the following year.