SS Master on the way to Allied Shipyards

A Short video of the triple expansion steam engined heritage tugboat SS Master underway for Allied Shipyards in Vancouver, BC's Burrard Inlet in 2003. The Master was built in 1922 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada by Authur Moscrop. The Triple Expansion Engine was built by William Beardmore & Company, of Coatbridge Scotland for a World War 1 Royal Navy Minesweeper that was to be equipped with two such engines, but never completed.
The SS Master is the sole remaining wooden hulled steam powered tugboat of Her type in North America, and an important part of the maritime heritage of the Province of British Columbia. During Her days of service She hauled barges of Coal, Building Materials and log booms of timber up and down the West Coast, and transited as far as San Francisco and as far north as Alaska. She also hauled all the limestone that was used to construct the the present day Fairmount Hotel Vancouver. Please visit www.ssmaster.org for more info.

( Camera Footage Courtesy of Peter Blue )

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[porpoisefathom]

i remember this tug in "steamboats and steam launches" magazine 1963!

[billalbion]

Very interesting, I liked the wee diesel tug, but what hellish music, it would have been better without it.

[spinaway]

A little bit more of the tug in question would have been nice to see, also a little bit of film around the engine room, great looking vessel all the same,