Year
1971
Description
Well-known local Don MacKenzie used his fishing boat ‘Lilly” as the Port’s first tug.
In 1972 the 10 ton bollard pull (tbp), 60 foot (20m) ‘Cape Legrand’ was used as the first Harbour Tug, the tender for the service being won by Mackenzie’s Tug Service. The tug cost $120,000, built by Australian Shipbuilding Industries, with a 550hp Caterpillar engine and a steerable Cortz nozzle; a new development of the day.
Then followed ‘Cape LeGrand II’ (1985) – 28tbp, ‘Cape Arid’ (1995) – 28tbp, ‘Cape Pasley’ (2001) – 67tbp, ‘Shoal Cape’ (2006) – 69tbp, ‘Hellfire Bay’ (2013) – 68tbp.
The family business of Mackenzie’s Marine and Towage was carried on by sons Hugh & Malcolm (‘Fud’) and now Hugh’s son, Sean.
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