Don’t miss Owen Sound, Saturday July 25th 2009. This is a special event to support the Owen Sound Marine Railroad Musem have a look at their site: Marine Railroad.
Included photos are of the R.A Hoey, a dive tug out of Meaford. A Russell Brothers tug built in Owen Sound in 1962. It was the Christian Island ferry [...]

Captain Robert Perrault has been a member of our tugfest site since March 2008. He has sent us some pictures and a brief history of his tugboat “Hercules”.
She is a “ville class” tug built by Russell Brothers in 1944 as the “Listerville” and sent to Halifax as a “boom service” tug (opening and closing anti-submarine nets to [...]

David Meyers, member of Tugfest since Febuary 2007, is the owner of the Tug “Torville”. She is 37ft long with a 471 Detriot Diesel. For more great pictures of the interior go to our links and pull up “History of Russell Brothers Ltd” by Steve Briggs. This tug has been completely redone from top to bottom [...]