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The Detroit Marine Historian Journal of Marine Historical Society of Detroit Volume 33, No. 7 March, 1980 Rev. Peter J. Van der Linden, Editor, 4190 Green Dr., Harsens Island, Michigan 48028 Published Monthly Annual Dues $8.00 INTRODUCING BISCAYNE BAY Photo Courtesy - Bob Campbell U.S. Coast Guard Icebreaker Tug BISCAYNE BAY. Fourth of six in the Class WIGB built for Great Lakes service by Tacoma Boat Company, Tacoma, Washington. Dimen- sions 140' (0A) x 37'6" x 12' Draft. Loaded tonnage - 662. Powered by two Fairbanks-Morse diesels driving two Westinghouse electric engines to single screw devéloping 2,500 shp. Builder's HULL 104, launched March 17, 1979, commissioned at her home port of St. Ignace on October 31, 1979. Service speed - 12 knots. Crew of 17. Follows 101-KATMAI BAY (Soo), 102-BRISTOL BAY (Detroit), and 103-MOBILE BAY (Sturgeon Bay). To be delivered 1980 are final two tugs 105-NEAH BAY and 106-MORRO BAY, both yet unassigned. UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD WOODEN HARBOR TUG PROGRAM, WORLD WAR I By: Rev. Edward J. Dowling, S.J. This is the second of a series of three articles on the wooden harbor tugs. All the pertinent information is described in the February, 1980 issue of the Historian. BULLOCK (US. 219144) was another Leathem & Smith job from Marine Iron Works engines. In 1921 Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad purchased BULLOCK and renamed her GEORGE W. STEVENS, and used her in the Chesapeake Bay area. This tug was purchased from the railroad by the Wood Towing Company of Norfolk, Virginia in 1938 and renamed RELIANCE. RELIANCE was junked at Norfolk in 1948.