Georgia Transporter (barge)

The 142-gross ton, 77-foot self-propelled barge Georgia Transporter, a twin-screw vessel of 540 horsepower built in 1963 to load and unload heavy logging and construction equipment on beaches, was purchased from McKenzie & Derrick Co. by Shields Navigation Ltd., an affiliate of Coal Island Ltd. The versatile craft was placed in service with the Shields tugs Dolphin Point and Storm King, operating from the company's Swartz Bay terminal. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1968, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.45.

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