Mystery Ship
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posted by Ookpik at 7:34 PM
Saturday, February 16, 2008
About Me
- Name: Ookpik
- Location: Michigan, United States
I began my interest in vernacular photography by a chance acquisition of over 10,000 negatives dating from the late 1920's through the early 1970's. Luckily, I knew what I had was something more than "someone's old pictures." This cache of old images became the impetus for me to create two Photoblogs: Ookpik’s Negativity and Mystery Ships Of The Great Lakes. Ookpik’s Negativity contains photos that I would like to know more about while Mystery Ships Of The Great Lakes features photos of ships that I am trying to identify.
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Previous Posts
- Mystery Ship
- Horace Johnson / Joshua A. Hatfield
- Mystery Ship
- James Whalen
- Ruth Hindman with Mary E. Hindman
- B.A. Peerless
- General Ludlow
- Santa Alicia / Santa Regina
- Finland
- Makaweli
4 Comments:
One of the older "-doc" boats of N. M. Patterson & Sons.
Hi Mike,
You are correct, that is one of the __doc boats. I was hoping someone might be able to identify the tug. I may need to crop the photo to make it less confusing.
That G on the tug's stack would indicate it might be one of the old Great Lakes Towing Co. tugs. They were/are named after states.
Judging by the angle of the rake of that stack on the Patterson boat, she's a real veteran- like the old Soodoc or Saskadoc. We used to climb aboard those oldies in the 60's when they were laid up for the winter in Goderich.
So many of the G Tugs look alike but it looks like the Reiss to me.
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