Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2024 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ ========================================================================= NOTICE TO USERS - These files are protected by the The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. Information contained herein is provided for research purposes and may be freely linked to. Copying for redistribution or presentation by any person, persons or organization is not allowed without the written permission of the author/submitter. Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== VESSEL NAME: J. C. Ames OTHER NAME(s): J. C. Perrett OFFICIAL NO: 76400 DATE OF LOSS: 1922 CAUSE OF LOSS: Condemned and burned LOCATION: Lake Michigan, Manitowoc RIG TYPE: Tug, tow boat HULL TYPE: Wood BUILDER: Rand & Burger, Manitowoc, WI., 1882 OWNER(S): Newaygo Tug Line MASTER: none TONNAGE: 537 gt, 347 nt DIMENSIONS: 160.2 x 29.2 x 13.2 CASUALTIES: none Original owner O. R. Johnson. Sold several times finally ending up with the Newaygo Tug Line of Green Bay, WI. ---------------------------------------------------- Appleton Post-Crescent, 22 December 1922, Pg 7 TUG AMES TOO OLD; MUST SINK IN LAKE Boat Well Known in Pulpwood Shipping is Condemned by U.S. The tug J. C. AMES, owned by the Newaygo Tug Line, Wisconsin Rapids, formerly of Appleton, has been condemned by government inspectors and will be sunk in the lake outside of Manitowoc, where the tug has been operating for several months, and where the engines are now being removed. The AMES was built in 1882, and was one of the largest tugs on the lakes, being 160 feet long and with a 29-foot beam. In the early days she was known as the PERRETT, and towed five barges in the lumber trade between Menominee and Chicago. With passing of the lumber business the tug passed into other hands and for several years towed a car- ferry between Peshtigo and South Chicago. Later she passed into ownership of the Nau Tug Line of Green Bay and engaged in towing pulpwood rafts on Lake Superior. In recent years the tugs became the property of its present owners and continued in pulpwood towing. -------------------------------------------------------- Door County Advocate, 29 December 1922 The condemned hull of the tug AMES and the tug BOUTIN, both familiar craft in the waters of Sturgeon Bay, were beached north of the port of Manitowoc latter part of last week and burned. The AMES was the property of the Appleton Paper company, and the BOUTIN was owned by McMullen & Pitz, Manitowoc contractors. Both tugs were built forty years ago and had been in constant service on the lakes. ======================================================================== Sources: Merchant Vessel List: 1887, 1888, 1920 Green's Marine Directory of the Great Lakes - 1923 Appleton Post-Crescent, 22 December 1922 Door County Advocate - 29 December 1922