Also known as:

TUPPER PORTER

Year of Build:

1882

Official Number:

85322

Built at:

Owen Sound, ONT

Vessel Type:

Tug (Towboat)

Hull Materials:

Wood

Number of Decks:

1

Builder Name:

J. Simpson

Original Owner and Location:

Spanish R. Lumber Co., Owen Sound, ONT

Ownership Notes:

Benjamin W. Arnold, President Albany, NY.

Propulsion:

Screw

Engine Type:

High Pressure (including HPNC)

# Cylinders:

1

# Propellers:

1

Propulsion Notes:

20 x 22", 75hp engine, built Wm. Kennedy, Owen Sound, 1882.

Length:

89'

Beam:

18'

Depth:

9'

Tonnage (gross):

73

Tonnage (net):

50

Final Location:

Toronto, ONT.
Lake Ontario.

Date:

1949

How:

Scrapped.

1930 Owned The Spanish Mills Co. Ltd., Cutler, ONT.

1940 Burke Towing & Salvage Company Ltd., Midland.

1941 Renamed TUPPER PORTER owned J.P. Porter & Sons Ltd., Montreal.

1944 Toronto Dry Dock Company Ltd.; rebuilt; active until 1948.

1948 Probably abandoned.

1949 Dismantled Toronto.

From the Collection of:

C. Patrick Labadie

Sources:

Edward J. Dowling Collection, University of Detroit - Mercy

Lorne Joyce

William MacDonald Collection, Dossin Great Lakes Museum, Detroit

Donald V. Baut