The tug Shamrock makes a Beaver Island fuel run to Manistique, 2011

Event

Date: 2011-08-08
Kind: Transportation
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: maritimetransportationinfrastructurecommunity
Within: Beaver Island

Douglas Edgar’s Beaver Fuel describes an August 8, 2011 trip from Beaver Island to Manistique aboard Bud Martin’s tug Shamrock, towing the barge Tanker II. The barge was loaded with non-ethanol gasoline and diesel, then returned to Beaver Island for transfer into trucks and local fuel tanks. The account says such runs were made as needed, weather permitting, from April through December.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, October 2011, "Beaver Fuel."
Douglas Edgar recounts an August 8 trip from Beaver Island to Manistique aboard the tug Shamrock with the barge Tanker II to collect roughly 20,000 gallons of fuel for Island distribution. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, October 2011, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held October issue scan confirms the corresponding OCR report.
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Beaver Island Archive, “The tug Shamrock makes a Beaver Island fuel run to Manistique, 2011”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-beaver-fuel-tug-shamrock-run-2011/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, October 2011, "Beaver Fuel." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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