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Name: BERTHA
Launched:
Completed: 1925
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Whitworth & Co, Low Walker
Yard Number: 1002
Dimensions: 107grt, 41nrt, 75.2 x 18.8 x 7.2ft
Engines: M8cyl, Diesel
Engines By: Norris Henty & Gardner, Manchester
Propulsion: 2 x Screws
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 1089874
History:
1925 Newfoundland Export & Shipping Co Ltd
1949 Renamed DEER LAKE
1982 Trident Construction
19XX Unknown, Toronto
1996 W Pennell; renamed BERTHA
1999 Tugboat Bertha LLC, Wayne, NewJersey
No later history known
Comments: Built as a tug for hauling timber, with a flat bottom and winches
so it could haul itself over land between creeks.
1951: Re-engined with 2 x Caterpillar Diesels rated at 120hp each.
2006: Under restoration by owner Darren Vigilant


Above photo as DEER LAKE copyright Don Sutherland

Above photo as BERTHA copyright Don Sutherland

Above photo as BERTHA copyright Don Sutherland