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W. D. Sutherland

Canadian List of Shipping 1970: Steel tug W. D. Sutherland [C.198040] registered at Montreal. Built at Owen Sound in 1956. 25'; 4 g.t. Canadian List of Ships 1997: Owned by The James Mclaren Co., Buckingham, Quebec. Transport Canada List 2002: Built by Russel-Hipwell Engine Co., Owen Sound, Ont. Transport Canada List 2003: Owned by Fiducie Great Lakes Power, Masson-Angers, Quebec.


n.b. Matthew Carlson noted this winch boat looks amazingly like the Carmichel boat. Note the air scoops on the aft deck. It is likely these two were built as twins. "Sutherland and Carmichel have been rebuilt to be nearly identical. Same prop even."

 

Stills from the video below. Note the big black boxes on the rear deck. Matthew Carlson comments (July 23, 2019): "It�s a air duct. They shortened the cabin making a engine bay, and sounds/looks like they repowered it likely with a Deutz air cooled diesel and that would be to blow the hot air outside rather than inside the cabin. There is a smaller one on the port side also. The shorter one is the intake and the taller one the vent. The air cooled engines are nice because you never have to worry about cooling water, but they need lots of air flow to both suck and blow."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf9WJDsXH84

 

Petit remorqueur Rivi�re du Li�vre a Gatineau Qu�bec 1993 (Small tug on the Li�vre River in Gatineau Quebec 1993). Published on 2 Jan 2016 by the Soci�t� d'histoire de Buckingham

 

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