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Photo source http://ul.bgsu.edu/cgi-bin/xvsl2.cgi Item 007366

 

April 14, 2017 René Beauchamp comments: E.A.ROCKETT at Dalhousie in 1970
in the livery of New Brunswick International Paper Co.

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April 14, 2017 René Beauchamp comments: E.A.ROCKETT at Windsor, Sept. 1975. She was being painted in the Allied Tug & Barge Service livery and the new name Paul E. No. 1 was applied not long after.

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Working for Allied Tug & Barge. Photo courtesy Gerry Ouderkirk.

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PAUL E. No. 1 in 1992, the only year it transited the St.Lawrence Seaway locks. Glenbrook in background. The tugs were towing the laker Stadacona. On hand were also Kay Cole and Lac Erie. Photo by Rene Beauchamp.
Tim McKeil comments (Dec. 8, 2018): "I always thought there was a significant difference between the Paul E and the few other Glens that McKeil owned. The Paul E had fuel tanks all along the sides from the fwd ER bulkhead back about half way. At some point, to increase stability, the tanks were cut down to about half height. The fuel transfer piping appeared to me to be something from an earlier time, similar to the piping we saw elsewhere on the Glen tugs. But, that does not prove anything. It is possible those tanks were completely a modification from the original, but I am guessing that the pic from 1943 is a of a tug that was virtually identical to the Glenbrook, Glenside and Glenevis. It is different than the Stormont and what is now the Wyatt M. The Vigilant I is also about the same. But the Paul E may or may not have been built, originally, the same as that one in 1943. The Atomic, now Jarrett M, was very similar but not identical. The fuel tank arrangement was not quite identical as the charts were not the same. The bow of the Atomic was cut back for ice breaking. There was no tank top down forward where the Glen tugs I knew had a 20 ton double bottom ballast tank between the engine room and the fresh water tank. I don't recall right off if there was a cofferdam and where it was down there on the Glen tugs. I recall one of those deck house doors opening up to the back side of a shelf or other such structure. The inside of the space was reworked and the door simply did not figure into it."

Garth McKeil: "I vaguely recall amongst the other oddities, a door that opened into back of shelving or Galley bench. There was also the over abundance of handrails and grabrails... Including the the double runs of handrails going up the stairs to the wheelhouse. Always joked that Ray had done that to allow for tall and short people."

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Tim McKeil: "We had great fun exploring that boat when it as first purchased. And, it was full of spare just about everything, as far as we were concerned. Seems to me the story was that the money ran out during the modification effort that saw that bow rubber and wheelhouse installed and there were one or two internal doors made of 3/8 rough plywood that must not have been managed beforehand. Tim McKeil You can just see the air filters in the stack, in the pic they are between the life raft and the bow of the aluminium boat. The V16-149 did not draw air from inside the engine room. The two tugs look to be hooked up behind a tow, probably a dead ship."

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Garth McKeil: The name was absent because it had been repainted from HUB colours and just hadn't been redone yet. During CSI John Spence gave me heck for it so we quickly lettered it (I think Donnie Smith or Young John Young did the lettering). When John came back to check he teased me mercilessly about it being too small to read. Teased me for years about that small lettering. When I visited him at the Hospital shortly before passing, he quipped that they better not get my crew to letter the headstone. Not sure if it was this tow or another.... But on one of these trips Bruce was speaking with the Inspector for Welland Canal prior to transiting. The Inspector asked him if he had done tows like this with McKeil's before.. and as the Inspector stood poised with clipboard and pen in hand.. Bruce puts on the Lake Erie fisheman, hillbilly like accent and says... "No this is a really great company last week I was driving a taxi and now I am a Captain!" The poor inspector didn't know what to say/think.

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The tug Paul E. No. 1 is seen in this photograph transiting downbound in the Welland Canal during the morning hours of April 20th, 1993. At the time it was taken she was sailing northbound in the canal below lock 1 destined for Hamilton Ontario, the home port of McKeil Marine Ltd., her owners.
Garth McKeil comments (Apr. 23, 2018): "I remember doing a CSI inspection on the the Paul E, while tied up at PWDD, back in the 90s. John Spence called me up and asked if she had a different name as he couldn't find a Division 6 on her in their computers.. after a bit of back and forthing it turned out that she had actually been inputted as "The Paul E No. 1" and he had been looking under "P" not "T". He then had me paint her name on the bows with the "The" included."
Photo source http://www.wellandcanal.ca/shiparc/tugs/paule/paule.htm

 

Toronto, 1994. Gerry Ouderkirk Collection.

 

Sarnia, Nov. 6, 1995. Photo courtesy Gerry Ouderkirk.

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The tug Carrol C 1 is seen in this photograph towing the spud barge Henry T and the tugs Paul E. No. 1 with Lac Vancouver upbound in the Welland Canal during the evening hours of August 11th, 2001. They were enroute from Hamilton to Alanburg on the Welland Canal to assist in the salvage of Windoc.
Photo source http://www.wellandcanal.ca/shiparc/nmpat/windocwreck/salvage03.htm

 

Mike Nicholls Photos from Boatnerd, top dated July 17, bottom Dec. 19th, 2001.

 

In Detroit by Mike Nicholls 9/06 & 07/04, 2004. McKeil tug Paul E No.1 turning into her dock at Morterm
after completing her ferry service between Windsor and Detroit.
boatnerd source: http://www.boatnerd.com/news/newsthumbs/newsthumbs_033.htm

 

McKeil tug Paul E No.1 and barge Lac St. Jean at their Delray Dock.
Detroit River Traffic by Mike Nicholls 9/10 & 11/04, 2004.
boatnerd source: http://www.boatnerd.com/news/newsthumbs/newsthumbs_037.htm

 

4/11/06 - Canadian Provider Delivered to Port Weller Drydock - Al Howard Canadian Provider entered Lock 1 at 4:30 p.m. and was in drydock by 6:30 p.m. The tugs Vigilant , Progress, and Paul E.No.1 departed soon after.
boatnerd source: http://www.boatnerd.com/news/newsthumbs/newsthumbs_222.htm

 

Paul E No. 1 waiting to assist the Canadian Provider in the Welland canal.
Lock 1, May 5/06. Photo by Paul Beesley, shipspotting.com.
source: http://www.shipspotting.com/gallery/photo.php?lid=1110527

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June 2007...Departing the lakes by way of the New York State Barge Canal.
source unknown, via boatnerd.com. Gerry Ouderkirk Collection.

 

Jason LaDue comments (Feb. 14, 2018): "Apologies for not having or able to give credit for these images. These were originally posted on shipspotting.com but appear to have been taken off, so photo info and credit is missing. Former Paul E No 1.

 

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