Sorry to repeat myself, but I love seeing the Swellmaster working. A tug built in 1965, repowered in 1987 (with remanufactured Cats built in 1973) and knocking about with barges dredges, and coastal tows of same, must be built of stern stuff.
I also love the Admiralty funnel.
Here's a little retrospective.
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1. As
Irving Hemlock working off Borden PEI in 1996. That's the old Harbour Development Ltd funnel mark.
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2. Wearing a Soviet era funnel marking while playing a supporting role in the move
K-19: The Widowmaker. She and Tamerack appear in the movie pulling a sub out of the graving dock.
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3. The hammer and sickle are gone, and she is now the camera boat for the same movie. The telescoping arm could get right down to a water line view or elevate well above.
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4. December 9, 2011 back at the mud scow work.
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5. Today, running the Narrows. The ladders must have been added while she worked in Saint John. It's a long way up to the piers when the tide is out. Most of those dents in her bridge dodger are twenty years old.
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