In the last post I mentioned the Canadian Navy's fire boats. Built on the TANAC hulls cancelled at the end of World War II, they were mo...

The company Marinex (formerly Canadian Underwater Works)(C.U.W.) mentioned in my last post, had an interesting fleet of tugs, D.Robidoux wa...

From the oldies department : Summer trips through Quebec in the 1980s turned up a number of old tugs, many no longer in service. A compan...

In my recent posting about tugs at Baie-Comeau, QC, I made a number of serious errors, which I hereby correct:     The tug Svitzer Wombi ...

While waiting for the German tug Janus to begin its tow of the crippled tanker Australian Spirit , another tow passed by. This was the Cana...

Janus arrived in Halifax this morning and tied up under the bow of its prospective tow, Australian Spirit .   The tug's extreme w...

The ocean going tug Janus is en route to Halifax. The 19,000 bhp, 220 tBP behemoth is coming to tow the tanker Australian Spirit to Portug...