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pictures from my dad’s trip out on lake superior today
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pictures from my dad’s trip out on lake superior today
the loving couple
those three little dots are fishing tugs trying to bust through the ice
The Port of Collingwood, 2008
“Veteran Skipper and Four Safe As Tug Sinks In Georgian Storm,” Toronto Star. November 14, 1940. Page 02. ---- Ruby Sculier of Thornbury, 22-year-old cook aboard the tug Frank L.i, and four other members of the crew were saved from death in a Georgian Bay gale when Capt. W. H. Oldfield, 73, brought his fishing boat into dock at Point Au Baril moments before it sank in harbor.
The well-known Thornbury skipper had been sailing the bay in the same tug for 21 years. His son, Frank, was a member of the crw along with Lawrence Walkhouse of Manitoulin Island and Aliza Traunch of Parry Sound.
The Frank L. had not been seen at its home port, Thornbury, since early summer, Mrs. Frank Oldfield told The Star. She said she had been very anxious for the safety to her husband and father-in-law during the recent gales. Yesterday she received a brief wire reporting the sinking of the tug but assuring ther that all hands were safe. No further details were given.
“Principals In Tobermory ‘Rescue’,” The Globe and Mail. March 20, 1937. Page 04. ---- Some of the principal figures in the Tobermory ‘rescue’ affair, which haad the little Bruce Peninsula village wrapped in anxiety for twenty-four hours over the fate of five of its residents working on You Island, are pictured above. The sturdy tug, John and Alex, which carried the ‘rescuers,’ is pictured at the upper left. At the upper right are Warren Adams and ‘Bill’ Spearz, two of the foursome who rowed four miles to their power boat and then took it twelve miles further to hear the ‘All’s well!’ from the Yoe Island men. Below are the crew of the tug. From left to right, they are: ‘Bill’ Ramsbury, Jr., Jack Ramsbury, Captain W. W. Ramsbury, Floyd Ritchie, and Jack Martin - Staff Photos