Special society to save old tug
The Tug Lyttelton Preservation Society will be formed in a few weeks and the Lyttelton Harbour Board will be asked next month to allow a 12 months trial for the tug to be run on excursions round the harbour.
This was decided at a meeting yesterday of representatives from the Ferrymead Trust, the Canterbury Steam Preservation Society, New Brighton Jaycees, the Canterbury branch of the Company of Master Mariners, and the Lyttelton Historic Museum. The meeting decided to ask the Harbour Board to receive a deputation at next month’s meeting of its port development committee.
The Ferrymead Trust is not in a position now, financially, to take over the 66-year-old tug Lyttelton and would need a year in which to build a berth for the tug at Ferrymead.
Mr E. R. Musson, secretary of the Canterbury Steam Preservation Society, said yesterday that the entrance and subscription fees from members of the new society to preserve the tug would give enough working capital to run the tug in the : harbour for a year. If running the tug on harbour excursions proved an economic proposition — any profits would go towards building the final berth for the tug — it was hoped that the harbour board would alllow the tug to be run until I any major overhaul made that uneconomic.
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33230, 21 May 1973, Page 14
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Special society to save old tug
Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33230, 21 May 1973, Page 14
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