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Name: GLIDE LAKE
Launched: n/a
Completed: 1925
Builder: Sir WG Armstrong, Whitworth & Co, Low Walker
Yard Number: 1003
Dimensions: 107grt, 41nrt, 72.9 x 18.0 x 7.0ft
Engines: 2 x Oil engines, M type, 4cyl (8.5 x 9.5ins)
Engines By: Norris Henty & Gardner Ltd, Manchester
Propulsion: 2 x Screws
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 177021
History:
1925 Newfoundland Export & Shipping Co Ltd, St John's
1927 International Paper Co of Newfoundland Ltd, St John's
1938 Bowater's Newfoundland Pulp & Paper Mills Ltd, St John's
30/05/1945 Registered at St John's, Newfoundland
No further history known
Comments: Built as a timber tug with a flat bottom and winches
so it could haul itself over land between creeks
Built in kit form & assembled in Canada