Fish Tugs of the Greatest Lake

PALMER

PALMER 227024 Built by Sturgeon Bay Boat Works in 1926 for Alfred P. Shellswick, Waukegan, Ill. The wood hulled vessel was 47 ft. x 13 ft. and equipped with a 45-54 hp. Kahlenberg oil engine. Shellswick fished with her until after having the AL SHELLSWICK built in 1935. The crews much preferred to work on the newer boat, and in time the PALMER was laid up at an inlet on Washington Island. Later brought out and bought by new owners, the boat spent many years at Racine, owned for a time by Robert Strege. By then the Kahlenberg had been replaced with a Cummins diesel.