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“Most people don’t know how integral tugs and barges are to B.C.’shistory and development,” S.S. Master Society member David Bradford said. Barges have to be towed when they enter into English Bay, for instance, because they’re too large to be steered.
The tugs, from the larger deep sea tugs to the smaller boom boats, are used to tow barges, log booms, and ships, according to the society website. Those have hulls made of steel and are fuelled by diesel.
Bradford said there’s something about a wooden boat that is special.
“A lot of the guys in the yard, their hearts beat a little faster when they see it,” he said.
The goal is to restore the tug and use it for educational and cultural purposes. In past summers, the tug was on display at Granville Island, said Bradford.
The tug is still operational, but hasn’t worked as a tug since the 1950s, he said.
The S.S. Master was built by Arthur Moscrop, B.C.’s most notable tugboat builder, in 1922 at the Beach Avenue Shipyard in False Creek.
She was the last tug launched with a “triple expansion steam engine,” which was a Royal Navy Word War One surplus engine built in 1916. It still powers her today.
The Master was first used in the logging industry and in 1940 was bought by the Marpole Towing Co. and painted with the company’s colours, black diamonds on a white band on an orange stack, the same colours it bears today.
The black diamonds represented the towing of coal barges from Vancouver Island to Marpole’s plant in Coal Harbour.
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