Photographer: Keith W. Churill

Manitou

Malcom Marine

Home Port: St. Clair, MI

Type:  Tug Boat

Built:  1943

Engine Type:  Diesel

Cargo Capacity:  491 tons / gross

Length:  110 ' - 00"

Beam:  26' - 5"

Draft:  11' - 6"

Upper Photograph: The Manitou is traveling up-bound on June 25, 2000 on the St. Clair Cut-off channel just South of Algonac, Michigan.

Lower Photograph: The Manitou is moored along the boardwalk in Algonac, Michigan on April 25, 2000.

HISTORY: She was originally part of the United States Coast Guard operating under her current name with (WYT-60) until 1984.

Two days after the above photograph was taken, the Manitou went to work. She assisted the vessel American Mariner which had struck a permanent marker in Lake Huron just North of the Blue Water Bridge.