EFC Design 1076: Illustrations
140' Wood Ocean-Going Tug, Northwest Engineering Works Design
| Toiler, the first tug to be built by the new Northwest Engineering Works at Green Bay, Wisc., is poised for a side launching into the Fox River on 15 August 1918. (Voyageur, Northeast Wisconsin's Historical Review, Winter/Spring 2000, page 26) |
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| Notes: In February 1918 the Hartmann-Greiling Machine and Boiler Works in Green Bay, Wisc., which had built two subchasers for the Navy in 1917, became the Northwest Engineering Works, Inc. On 9 March 1918 it received a contract from the EFC for two steel harbor tugs (EFC hulls 1343-44), and on 19 April 1918 it received a contract for a single wood ocean-going tug that became Toiler (hull 1481). Toiler had already been laid down on 13 April 1918, suggesting the EFC took over a private order. More orders followed in May and June, but this time the ocean-going tugs were steel and the harbor tugs were wood. Toiler was launched on 15 August 1918 and delivered to EFC personnel on 16 November 1918 after dock trials to tow several large EFC ships through the ice in the St. Lawrence River to the East Coast. She was definitively delivered to the EFC on 9 May 1919 and to her operator (temporarily the Army) on 15 May 1919. She was registered by July 1919 as a merchant ship at Milwaukee, Wisc., with dimensions of 132.2' pp x 27.5' max x 12.8' depth of hold and a compound engine of 450 ihp (low for an ocean-going tug). She was sold on 30 July 1920 to Thomas J. Howard of New York, and in 1923-24 she was renamed Thomas J. Howard and re-registered at New York. She kept that name until scrapped in 1956. |