tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801529633518684689.post6252553212392091252..comments2024-03-20T10:48:36.617-03:00Comments on Tugfax: Gulf Dianne at Port HawksburyMachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09559556529557710099noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801529633518684689.post-10543041216889667792020-03-31T20:03:20.696-03:002020-03-31T20:03:20.696-03:00Hello all I sailed with Cal on the Gulf Joan named...Hello all I sailed with Cal on the Gulf Joan named after my mother and the Gulf Dianne was named after my sister and it was always spelt with 2 n. All the Gulf Tugs named after family or women that worked for company or wives of men that worked there. My grandfather TSB Staff Byrn as most people called him and my uncle Ray Bicknell owned GogG and then my dad JSB Jim Byrn then sold company to Genstar Marine and they amalgamated it with Seaspan. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00530180673845377862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6801529633518684689.post-24826809234419388692010-06-05T03:09:51.037-03:002010-06-05T03:09:51.037-03:00Hi Mac, my grandfather Captain Callum Smith skippe...Hi Mac, my grandfather Captain Callum Smith skippered the Gulf Joan when the Gulf Diane was towed from Vancouver. According to his ship's log they left Vancouver April 15, 1976 and arrived PEI S Side June 8, 1976. The cost to take it through the Panama Canal was $23,000 nearly triple the amount it was 14 mos prior. There's actually a newspaper article dated April 8, 1976 in 'The Province' here in BC with a pic of the Gulf Diane being loaded on the barge. Thank you very much for keeping up these photos as they are part of my granpa's life who died in 1986.<br /><br />VikkiAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com