Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Accession # |
2006-24-207 |
Description |
Starboard bow view of 45 foot U.S. Army Corps of Engineers tug ALGOMA underway with a boy and a dog on deck. 1939. |
Object Name |
Negative |
Date |
1939 |
Place |
Sturgeon Bay, WI |
Vessel Info |
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers tug ALGOMA was 45 feet long and based in Kewaunee, Wisconsin. It was built at the Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in 1939, hull number 104. |
Search Terms |
Tug Army Corps of Engineers ALGOMA Sturgeon Bay, WI |
Credit line |
Donated in memory of Robert D. Krauss |
Provenance |
Collection of maritime photographs and negatives from Sturgeon Bay Boat Works, estate of Robert Krauss (Father of the donor). Robert Krauss died August 11, 1999. He was employed at the Kewaunee Shipbuilding and Engineering Corporation in the early 1940s when the photos were taken. In 1945 or 1946 he started his own boat building company called "Krauss Kraft." He built two ferry boats for Washington Island. He worked with Walter Haertel, a naval architect from Sturgeon Bay, WI. |