Lister (ship, 1970)

The Lister was a tugboat built for the Northern Transportation Company (NTCL), in 1970.[1] She operated out of the intermodal terminal at Hay River, NWT.[2]

Lister, mothballed, in Hay River, in 2008.

She was 72 feet (22 m) long, and her gross tonnage was 117 tons.[1]

Her design was specified by Harold Lister, her namesake.[3] He wanted a tug shallow enough for river navigation, while still being capable of deep sea navigation.

Her service included pushing barges of supplies down the Mackenzie River from the railhead at Hay River to offshore drilling platforms in the Beaufort Sea.[3]

In April 2019 it was announced she would be scrapped, together with several other older tugboats from the now defunct NTCL.[4]

References
  1. "Commercial Tugs (> 50 ft.) Built in Canada Since WWII". Shipbuilding History. Retrieved 2020-12-19.
  2. Donald H. Burn; Eric D. Soulis (March 2006). "A Case Study of Climate Change Impacts on Navigation on the Mackenzie River". Canadian Water Resources Journal. p. 66. doi:10.4296/cwrj3101057. Retrieved 2020-12-19. It is interesting to see that after September 17, even though the base climate modelled water level is below the drafting depth of M.V. Lister, the water levels in some scenarios (e.g., HadCM3 B21 and CSIRO-Mk2b A21) are still high enough so as not to cause grounding. This is an example of how climate changes may extend favourable navigation conditions on the river.
  3. Fin Lineham (1984-09-12). "PETROLEUM INDUSTRY ORAL HISTORY PROJECT" (PDF). Glenbow Museum. Interviewed by Susan Birley. Retrieved 2020-12-19. And then he wants us to build a tug, both an ocean going and a river tug, which had to have not more than 3'-3'8" of draft so that you wouldn’t pile up on the rocks and things and it had to have a hull, an ocean going hull.
  4. Paul Bickford (2019-04-08). "Shipyard, not a junkyard". Hay River Hub. Retrieved 2020-12-19. Williams noted several other tugboats will be cut up for scrap, including the Lister, the Horn River and the Husky.
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