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P.P.M. 32 / Mikayla

Canadian List of Shipping 1956: P. P. M. 32 [C.177964] registered at Toronto; built at Owen Sound in 1946. 42'9 x 12' x 3'4; 19 g.t.; 7 n.t.; 93 hp. Owned by Abitibi Power & Paper Co. Ltd., Toronto. Canadian List of Shipping 1970: Steel tug P. P. M. 32 [C.177964] registered at Toronto. Built at Owen Sound in 1946. 43'; 19 g.t. Owned by Abitibi Pulp & Paper, Toronto. Canadian List of Ships 1997: Owned by minister of Highways and Transportation, Winnipeg, Manitoba. RBF Notes: PPM 32, Hull 591 sitting in Selkirk, MB in a field summer 2003. Owner Mike Maloney, Selkirk, MB 204-785-1080. For sale for $25,000 Cdn, 175 cummins diesel engine, Galley, sleeps 4, 3-1 reduction gears. prop 39�, Hydraulic Steering, 3� shaft. Cabin rebuilt 1977. Transport Canada List 2004: Registry closed January 24, 2000. Put up for auction on eBay January 2005. High bid was $4550.00 US won by Dan McKay of Sault Ste. Marie, ON January 26, 2005.

RBF notes: PPM 32 - Sold on eBay for $5500 US in 2004. Still waiting
to be moved to the Soo, ON (Selkirk, MB May 18, 2003)

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Builder's plate. Boat #591, 1946.
Photo by Dan MacKay Dec. 17, 2017.

 

PPM32 moves from Selkirk MB to Soo ON, 2006-03-23. Photo by Dan MacKay.
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PPM32 moves from Selkirk MB to Soo ON, 2006-03-23. Photo by Dan MacKay.

 

PPM32 moves from Selkirk MB to Soo ON, 2006-03-23. Photo by Dan MacKay.
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New paint, new name. RBF notes: PPM 32 has received an unofficial name change to Mikayla, after Dan McKay's daughter. Photo by Ted Vince of the Soo, Aug. 2006.

 

Dan McKay's Decelles and Mikayla snowbound, 2006.

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Photos from the Soo Great Tug Race.
http://www.ssm.thegreattugboatrace.ca/Pictures.html

 

The Great Tugboat Race July 2011, Soo. Photos by Ted Vince.

 

The Great Tugboat Race July 2011, Soo. Photos by Ted Vince.

 

Mikayla and Decelles in the Soo
March, 2012. Photo by Ted Vince.

 

June 8, 2013. The Mikayla & The Decelles, Bellevue Marina, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Photo by Michael Greco.
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Decelles and Mikayla in Sault Ste. Marie. 2013-08-16. Photo by Eira Voth.

 

Mikayla, Sault St. Marie Great Tug Race June 28, 2014
https://saultonline.com/2014/06/tugs-parade/

 

Mikayla, Sault St. Marie Great Tug Race 2015. Photo courtesy Jimmy Polnick.

 

June 27, 2015. Mikayla and Boomalong. The Great Tug Boat Race started with a parade of the participating tug boats. Sault Ste Marie Ontario Canada. Photo by Brian Pressey.
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34th annual Great Tugboat Race, on the St. Marys River. June, 2015.
https://www.sootoday.com/local-news/tugs-away-on-the-st-marys-river-8-photos-181515

 

Jul 1, 2015: LOCAL2 cameras were on the scene as 16 vessels took part in the 34th annual Great Tugboat Race, held Saturday afternoon on the St. Marys River in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. This four minute video features short interviews with Adam Lyons of Whitney III, Roy Wilson of Queensville, and Annette Currie of Mikayla. Also Marc Mousseau. Also footage of Boomalong, Scottish Thistle, Cobra and (briefly) W.D. McCosh.
source: https://www.sootoday.com/videos/news/tugging-along-the-st-marys-river-11509

 

Scottish Thistle, Mikayla & Decelles. Taken on January 9, 2018 by Rick McCutcheon. Ice-locked tugboats, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. This is a study in patience. I saw this as a possible image six days ago. Six days in a row I went out with my gear waiting for the light to come in with the sun going down, the pinkish sky behind, the yellow of the tugs lit by evening sun, and no intrusions. Each night until this evening I was foiled by one thing or another, and even on this evening I waited two hours to get this image. This evening I went with only old school manual focus lenses, many 30 or more years old. This is the much acclaimed 135mm, f/2.8 AI-S lens, mounted on one of Nikon's newest bodies, sitting on a tripod of course.
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Scottish Thistle, Mikayla and Decelles in Sault Ste. Marie, March 18, 2018.
Photo by Dan Mckay.

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Aug. 30, 2018. Sault Ste. Marie. Mikayla & Decelles, along with the young lady Mikayla is named for. Photos by Dan McKay.

 

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