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JANUARY PAGE 11 High and Dry The Magpie The logging tug MAGPIE (Can. 171701) was built in 1938 at Sorel, Quebec by Marine Industries, Ltd. for the Abitibi Power and Paper Co., Ltd. of Sault Ste, Marie, Ontario, Steel hull, dimensions; 96.6 x 2560 x Oc, 191 gross tons and 89 net tons. Powered by a5 cylinder Sulzer diesel engine, 250 mm. dia. by 330 mm, stroke, The vessel operated on Lake Superior for many years in the rafting business and also as a Company dispatch and supply ship. She has a small cargo hold forward and a single hatch in front of the pilot house. In recent years she has been inactive and for sale. In June, 1966 she was purchased by the Hindman Transportation Co., Ltd. of Owen Sound for use as a harbor tug in various Georgian Bay ports. Before leaving for Collingwood she was towed across the St. Mary's River to the American side and reconditioned in the Soo Dry Dock. After bottom repaint- ing and some rudder work, she was refloated and left for Georgian Bay. Our illustration, above, taken by fellow member Gary Beach, shows her in dry- dock. The bottom illustration was taken by Father Dowling while she was at the Government Dock at the Canadian Soo. Late in November, it was learned that the tug was renamed DANA T. BOWEN after the well known Lakes author.