J.R. Arnoldi was, in fact, the owner of the yacht "Joe" from the beginning. As chief engineer of the mechanical branch of the Canadian government Department of Public Works (responsible for dredging), Arnoldi had the vessel registered in the names of his friends - first W.A. Allan, then J.R. Wilson - to surreptitiously pay himself fees from his own department, on behalf of which he leased his yacht as a "survey steamer." This was a main subject of a widely-publicized scandal investigated by the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament in 1891 it was strongly suggested that in addition to his deception, Arnoldi had receive the vessel as a kick-back on Public Work's purchase of dredges built by Morgan & Sutton, with machinery by Pound Manufacturing. Arnoldi was sentenced to six months imprisonment for malfeasance in 1893.
There seems to be major discrepancy in the dimensions of "Joe" the yacht was based in Ottawa, and operated mostly in the Ottawa - Kingston - Montreal triangle, which would have required a draft of not much over five feet (the Rideau Canal specification), nowhere near the 11 feet quoted here. Could the re-build as a tug have increased the draft so greatly?
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J.R. Arnoldi was, in fact, the owner of the yacht "Joe" from the beginning. As chief engineer of the mechanical branch of the Canadian government Department of Public Works (responsible for dredging), Arnoldi had the vessel registered in the names of his friends - first W.A. Allan, then J.R. Wilson - to surreptitiously pay himself fees from his own department, on behalf of which he leased his yacht as a "survey steamer." This was a main subject of a widely-publicized scandal investigated by the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament in 1891 it was strongly suggested that in addition to his deception, Arnoldi had receive the vessel as a kick-back on Public Work's purchase of dredges built by Morgan & Sutton, with machinery by Pound Manufacturing. Arnoldi was sentenced to six months imprisonment for malfeasance in 1893.
There seems to be major discrepancy in the dimensions of "Joe" the yacht was based in Ottawa, and operated mostly in the Ottawa - Kingston - Montreal triangle, which would have required a draft of not much over five feet (the Rideau Canal specification), nowhere near the 11 feet quoted here. Could the re-build as a tug have increased the draft so greatly?
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