"Sudbury II" joins the IT&B fleet (1958-59) - RBCM AAAA2659

More "Saga of the Sudburys": Another clip from the Island Tug and Barge promotional film shows the powerful deep-sea salvage tug “Sudbury II” (ex-“Caledonian Salvor”) joining the IT&B fleet in Victoria in 1958. In the summer of 1959, she undertakes her first assignment: towing the Liberty ships “Carole Lombard” and “Henderson Luelling” to Japan and the breaker’s yard.
The SS “Carole Lombard” was launched in January 1944, two years after the death of her namesake, the popular American film actress and comedienne. Lombard, aged 33, was killed in a commercial airplane crash while returning from a War Bonds promotion tour.
This is an edited excerpt from "Saga of the Sudburys" (Parry Films ltd., 1960), BC Archives film item AAAA2659 at the Royal BC Museum. Used by permission.
For an earlier post from the same film, see staff.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/2017...

[@gongringer]

After high school graduation I worked on the Sudbury II as a deckhand for a summer job in 1966. She hauled limestone in a barge from Blubber Bay on Texada Island to Astoria, Oregon. Russian fishing ships lined the 14 mile limit, and we passed close enough to see their crew wave to us. We went through one storm similar to the one in this film. I never got seasick, but I questioned the whole flotation principle of tugs and barges in such weather.

[@reflections9635]

the last trip she made was to San Francisco with salt bargues. I was on her as a young man