| Island Champion (2) (tug) | Island Champion (2), 87 feet in length, with 1,450-horsepower GM engine driving a single controllable pitch propeller in a Kort steering nozzle, built by Benson Bros. Shipyard to Robert Allan design for the coastal barge towing operations of Island Tug. Gordon Newell, Maritime Events of 1970, H. W. McCurdy Marine History of the Pacific Northwest 1966 to 1975, p.76. |
| Citation: Tacoma Public Library |