G.W. Rogers
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G.W. Rogers was a tugboat active on the Great Lakes.
Tugboat G.W. Rogers moored in Toronto in 1976. | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 Canada | |
| Name | G.W. Rogers |
| Owner | Canadian Dredging Company |
| Builder | Great Yarmouth, England |
| Launched | 1919 |
| Out of service | December 1987 |
| Home port | Midland, Ontario |
| Identification |
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| Fate | Sank at her moorings, December 1987 |
| General characteristics [1] | |
| Class & type | Steam Tug |
| Tonnage | 164 GT |
| Length | 88 ft 5 in (26.95 m) |
| Beam | 21 ft 2 in (6.45 m) |
| Draft | 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) |
| Installed power | 35 hp (26 kW) |
She was built in 1919, at Great Yarmouth, in the United Kingdom.[1] Her previous names included: Ballen Balloch, West Hope and Ocean Gull.
She helped free the lake freighter George M. Carl, when she ran aground off the mouth of the Humber River, in 1975.[2]
The G.W. Rogers sank at her moorings at Rensselaer, New York in December 1987.[3] A port official told the Schenectady Gazette that the vessel was so rusty her name was "nearly illegible". The Schenectady Gazette reported that a floating crane would have to be brought from New York City to salvage the tug, as the combined weight of the vessel and a land-based crane would overwhelm the moorings.