CGS Graham Bell
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The Graham Bell was a Canadian Government tugboat that was wrecked, and beached, while operating out of Churchill, Manitoba.[1] She was launched in Levis, Quebec, and towed to Churchill by another tug, the Ocean Eagle, in 1929, to assist in the construction of new port facilities.[2][3]
She was the tug that first brought a local pilot to the Pennyworth, the first freighter to visit Churchill's newly completed Port facilities, in 1933.[1] During World War II she left Churchill, when she was pressed into service assisting the Royal Canadian Navy.[4]
She returned to Churchill, following the war, where she was wrecked.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Canada’s Prairie Port. Retrieved on 2017-01-12. “At the entrance to the Churchill River, the pilot came aboard from the Canadian Government’s tug, the Graham Bell. The tug is a vessel of 250 tons gross, registered at Quebec, and has a length of 100 feet and a beam of 26 feet.”
- ↑ (1933) Engineering Journal: Revue de L'ingénierie, Volume 16. Engineering Journal. “During the winter of 1928-29 an additional tug, now called the Graham Bell, was built in Levis, for use in dredging operations and, being of small bunker capacity, had to be towed by the tug Ocean Eagle.”
- ↑ Steamboat Bill: Journal of the Steamship Historical Society of America, Issues 201-204. Journal of the Steamship Historical Society of America. Retrieved on 2017-01-11. “July 19, 1929 saw OCEANEAGLE leave Quebec carrying 325 tons of cargo and towing the new tug GRAHAM BELL”
- ↑ James Pritchard (2011). A Bridge of Ships: Canadian Shipbuilding During the Second World War (in English). McGill-Queen's Press. ISBN 9780773538245. Retrieved on 2017-01-11.