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UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD OCEAN TUG PROGRAM, WORLD WAR I by Rev. Edward J. Dowling, S.J. Part V At this point we think it well to enumerate again the principal details of these tugs. The dimensions of the steel tugs were 150 feet length overall, 27 feet beam and 13 feet depth. The wooden tugs were slightly shorter, being about 145 feet long. Both steel and wood tugs were powered by triple expansion engines of 17", 25" and 43" diameter of cylinders and 30" stroke. In this series, steel tugs are marked (S) and wooden tugs (W). All were built in 1918 to 1920. LIEUTENANT (W) - (US. 222958) was the third contract awarded to the Universal Ship- building Co., of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Before this wooden tug was completed two things happened, i.e., the contract was cancelled and the shipyard's name was changed to Sturgeon Bay Dry Dock Company. LIEUTENANT was completed as the small package freighter SHEBOYGAN for the Hill Steamboat Line of Kenosha, Wisconsin. SHEBOYGAN was a frequently seen ship along the west shore of Lake Michigan until the demise of her last owners, the Goodrich-West Ports Steamship Co., in 1934. She lay idle at Milwaukee and later Sturgeon Bay until junked in 1940. MARINE CITY (W) was. the name assigned to one of the cancelled contracts with the McLouth Shipyard at Marine City, Michigan. The tug was never built. MENOMINEE (S) - (US. 218978) was one of six steel ocean tugs built for the Shipping Board by the Northwest Engineering Works of Green Bay, Wisconsin. MENOMINEE'S engines were built by the Murray Iron Works of Burlington, Iowa. This tug stayed in the service of the Shipping Board until 1926 when it was sold to the Southern Transportation Company of Philadelphia. At the outset of World War II it was requisitioned by the U.S. Maritime Commission. On March 3, 1942, MENOMINEE and her tow, the barge BARNEGAT, were attacked by an enemy submarine. Both tug and barge were sunk by gunfire. (Continued on Page 4) SHEBOYGAN (ex LIEUTENANT) on her way to the boneyard, under tow of the steam barge M. H. STUART (at left) Author's Collection -2-