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Midge

Midge
Foto: BC Provincial Archives

Historia

This tug was built in 1884.

Notas históricas

Also know as the Mudhen.

Propietarios y capitanes

She was owned by William Baillie-Grohmann for Kootenay Lake service.

She was laid up until 1888 along the banks of the river at Rykert's Landing, where sank and filled with mud.

She was raised and cleaned out by J. William Cockle and party in the fall of 1888.

She was owned by the Kootenay Reclamation Co. at that time. For a time in 1888 she was operated by the Cockle brothers (J.William Cockle) out of Kaslo BC for the Toad Mountain mining boom.

They salvaged her at Ryckert's Landing and purchased her from W.A. Baillie-Grohman.

She was laid up in 1892.

She was acquired by Thomas Jones Davis who served the Kootenay River and Kootenay Lake.

Capitanes

Captain Arthur Fenwick (1884); Captain Thomas Jones Davis (1888-94)

Lugares nombrados

Midge Peak (BC)

Referencias

  • Putnam, W.L. and G.W. Boles, R.W. Laurilla (1990)
  • Affleck, Edward L. (1978)
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