Keywords: Radium Yellowknife, Menier Consol, tugboat, moored in the Keating Slip, 2013 10 05 (4).jpg Radium Yellowknife Menier Consol tugboat moored in the Keating Slip 2013 10 05 4 http //www flickr com/photos/55289779 N00/10132024246/ Radium Yellowknife Menier Consol tugboat moored in the Keating Slip 2013 10 05 4 2013-10-05 16 03 http //www flickr com/people/55289779 N00 booledozer 43 645872 -79 354075 source Flickr PermissionOTRS 2012092210003274 Revent 2013 in water transport in Toronto Keating Channel Toronto Radium Yellowknife ship 1948 Menier Consul ship 1962 Lake freighters in Toronto Tugboats in Toronto 2013 in Toronto Algoma Quebecois ship 1963 in Toronto Metis ship 1956 Taken with Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS10 Photographs by Geo Swan ImageNote 1 1789 1375 637 574 4320 3240 2 This tugboat is the historic Radium Yellowknife -- once part of the Radium line flatbottomed tugboats that towed barges of Uranium ore from Radium NWT to a railhead for shipment to the USA for the Manhattan Project So what is she doing in Toronto I am not exactly sure but I know she traversed the Northwest Passage on her way here in spite of her shallow draft I hope she ends up as a museum ship ImageNoteEnd 1 ImageNote 2 3531 764 785 1780 4320 3240 2 The Metis is now a notch-barge propelled by a tug that carries raw cement to the Essroc cement silos on Cherry Street ImageNoteEnd 2 ImageNote 3 2755 1257 502 460 4320 3240 2 The bow of the lake freighter Algoma Quebecois ImageNoteEnd 3 ImageNote 4 1443 1148 1477 764 4320 3240 2 The Menier Consol looks like a big WW2 landing craft She is owned by Toronto Drydock I am not sure how she is employed ImageNoteEnd 4 |