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GATE LIFTER WILL NOT BE USED TO RAISE TUG RIVAL
[The Welland-Port Colborne Evening Tribune, 17 November 1931]
Rumors that the new Gate Lifter, huge floating derrick, built last year for use on the new Welland canal for lifting the 500-ton gates, would be brought into action for the first time to raise the tug Rival which sank last week in the canal north of lock eight, were laid to rest yesterday by E.P. Murphy, superintendent of the southern section of the canal, who stated definitely that the gate lifter would not be brought from Port Weller to raise the tug.
The rumor was probably fostered by a desire to see the great electrically controlled derrick in action.
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