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No.166 LYNDA HINDMAN (C.153120) Photo by the Author Great Lakes tug built in 1908 by the American Shipbuilding Co., at Lorain, O., for the Duluth & Iron Range Ry. as a fire tug, named the WILLIAM A. McGONAGLE (US 205880 - 125 x 28 x 15.6, 416 g.t.) From her building until she was sold in 1935 to Lakehead Transp. Co., she performed her tasks ably. Many times she was called to the aid of firefighters ashore in Duluth and Superior Harbors. Like our own JOHN KENDALL, she was always ready to steam to the scene of disas- ter afloat and ashore. In 1935 she was renamed MARGUERITE W. and was engaged in towing lumber rafts in the Canadian Lakehead area. Quite often she towed the barges FLORENCE J. and MERLE H. or the MAUREEN H., all former Pittsburgh barges, down the lakes to the pap- er mills. Photos of her were taken at the Soo by Frank Patyk, the successor to Young, as she worked her consorts through the locks. She carried the colors of the Great Lakes Lumber & Shipping, Ltd., the green hull and white cabins with a black stack with wide white and green bands. In 1953 she was sold to Hindman Transp and became the RUTH HINDMAN (i). Her colors were quite vivid for a few years, purple hull and yellow stack with the familiar white diamond and red "H" of the Hindman fleet. Later her colors were again changed to the black hull, white cabins, black stack with red band and the Hindman diamond. For Hindman, operating out of Owen Sound, she towed the barge DELKOTE or MITSCHFIBRE or operated in Owen Sound Harbor. She also towed the scow that Hindman owned for a while. In 1965 she was named LYNDA HINDMAN, She worked well for her age but it soon caught up with her. She was sold for scrap and daismantled in Goderich Har- bor. Her cabins and the entire remains of the SULPHITE were put a- board the MITSCHFIBRE and taken to Ashtabula where scrapping was completed. The hull of the LYNDA HINDMAN was to be used for a fish tug but that project was not completed. It still lies in Goderich Harbor. Fr. Peter Van der Linden ty)