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UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD OCEAN TUG PROGRAM, WORLD WAR I by Rev. Edward J. Dowling, S.J. Part III 4 Q Here in Part III we begin to find the names of many of the tugs whose contracts for construction were cancelled. We have available the names of most of these unbuilt ugs, and we believe that this series of articles constitutes possibly the first publication of such names. The source is a list of contracts which came from the National Archives and presently are in the collection of the author. Some of the names are, to put it mildly, unusual and unique. The United States Shipping Board was evidently hard put to find enough names to go around. BUTTERFIELD (S) - (US. 218244) was, like several others already mentioned, a Bethlehem, Elizabeth (Hull #2130) job. This tug was brought into the Great Lakes soon after completion (1922) by the Newaygo Tug Line of Appleton, Wisconsin. BUTTERFIELD worked mostly on Lake Superior in rafting and barge towing until World War II. Taken back to salt water during the War, it was used by the Navy and designated L.T. 145. She came back to the Lakes as BUTTERFIELD at the end of the hostilities. In the late Fifties BUITERFIELD was acquired by the Roen Steamship Co., rebuilt completely, repowered with twin diesel engines and renamed JOHN PURVES. Unlike many rebuilds of tugs of this class, this one produced a fine appearing modern tug. Our illustration shows the very attractive lines of the JOHN PURVES. It is presently owned by the Bultema Dock & Dredge Company of Muskegon, and is one of the last survivors of this class. COMMANDER (W) - (US. 222887) was built at Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin by the Universal Shipbuilding Company (formerly Rieboldt & Wolter). The hull was sold by the U.S.S.B. before completion, and finished with a second enclosed deck as the small freighter KENOSHA for the Hill Steamboat Line. This modification was one of three similar con- q versions in which the ships retained much of their tug-like appearance. KENOSHA sailed for various Lake Michigan steamship lines in the Twenties and early Thirties. She was destroyed in the Sturgeon Bay shipyard fire, December 5, 1935. (Continued on Page }) = ¢ A conversion which retained much of the fine appearance of the Shipping Board tugs. The JOHN PURVES is the former BUTTERFIELD, as rebuilt for the Roen S.S. Co. in 1957. (Pete Worden Photo) soe