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The condition of this tug make it impossible to identify by name, I've nevertheless applied a name (for sake of identity) based on the information contained in the below May 12 comment by Shipspotting member 'Mafioso'. (For continuity please refer to comments made in the Ocean Rockswift upload).
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May 12, 2024 23:21 (2 days ago)
Sorry, I misunderstood.
The wooden hulls are not schooners, they are old Navy tugboats.
OCEAN HAWK
https://www.shipspotting.com/photos/3289509
OCEAN ROCKSWIFT - IMO 5260526
https://www.shipspotting.com/photos/2807706
Ocean Osprey
https://www.shipsnostalgia.com/media/ocean-osprey.462304/
OCEAN WEKA
https://russelbrothers.com/navytugsglen.html
These 4 tugs along with the 4 LSM's were almost the entire fleet of Saint John Tug Boat Co. Ltd. the owner was C.N. Wilson.
In 1967 he lost 2 lawsuits and had to pay for the sale of the boats to a scrapyard and they were to be scrapped in the Musquash Estuary, but apparently it was never done.
Later it was said that the ships were donated to the government of Canada.
Saludos
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Original information posted with the Ocean Rockswift upload:
The disintegrating hull is what is left of this old wooden ship (one of several abandoned vessels In the Musquash Estuary). Located about 15 kms west of Saint John). Since this photo and others taken while visiting the Estuary in 2021, I've checked various online sites as well as more than 1/2 dozen contacts in the Saint John and surrounding area, in an attempt at identifying this vessel (and the others in the Estuary). Those contacts include residents of Musquash, various historians, libraries, New Brunswick Museum archives, etc. There doesn't seem to be any recorded history as to the origin of these wooden ships (Schooners...?) or when/how they ended up in the Estuary. It is my understanding they were purchased in the 1950's (?) by local businesman C.N. Wilson (Saint John Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Ltd.), and traded in the Gulf of Maine and Bay of Fundy and eventually abandoned at their present location.
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O.N. 169123. 257g. 0n. 105.9 (113.0 O.L.) x 30.1 x 12.5 feet.
T.3-cyl. (16½, 27 & 46 x 30) by North Eastern Marine Engineering Company (1938) Ltd., Sunderland. 117nhp.
05.07.1943: Launched by J. Crown & Sons Ltd., Sunderland, (Yard No.210), for The Ministry of War Transport, London.
27.09.1941: Registered at Sunderland: Vessel No. 19 of 1941.
28.09.1943: Completed and handed over to Townsend Bros. (Ferries) Ltd., for onward delivery.
20.03.1946: Owners restyled as The Ministry of Transport.
07.1946: Recorded as being employed on dockyard duties at Alexandria.
10.1948: Transferred to Army service at Suez.
1953: Sold to Steel & Bennie Ltd., Glasgow and renamed THUNDERER
1958: Sold to St. John Tug Boat Company Ltd., Canada, and renamed OCEAN OSPREY (Glasgow registry retained).
1959: Registered at Hamilton, Bermuda.
1972: Demolished in Canada.
Information:
https://www.shipsnostalgia.com/media/ocean-osprey.462304/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Empire_ships_(D)
Lawsuit against St. John Tug Boat Company Ltd.
https://decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/6609/index.do?site_preference=normal
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