Category:Superior (tugboat, 1912)

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  • The packing and fishing companies turned almostentirely to motor-powered cannery tenders, 1912 construction including the 85 x 18-foot Superior, fitted with a 15-ton fourcylinder Atlas gas engine with 14-inch bore and 16-inch stroke developing 200 horsepower at 225 revolutions per minute. Designed by L. H. Coolidge and built at the Hall yard in Winslow for Lee H. Wakefield of Anacortes, she was described by Pacific Motor Boat as the biggest motor tug ever built! Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1912, H.W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest., p. 20