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ESCORT was a typical wooden harbour tug and long served on the Welland Canal. View is taken from a mourning card issued after her sinking on November 23, 1907 and shows her at Port Dalhousie with the barge UNGAVA.
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it is early spring in 1908 and ESCORT's rebuilding is well underway in a lock on the third Welland Canal. She shared the dry lock with tug ALERT.
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The most elusive canaller of all, EUGENE C. ROBERTS, is upbound in the Galop Canal with pulpwood, Deno photo, probably taken in 1925, is from the EArl D. Simzer collection, courtesy George Ayoub.
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This is EUGENE C. ROBERTS as she appeared when serving in Paterson colours as PORTADOC (I). Deno photo dates to 1939 or 1940.
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