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Descant · 02-14-2021, 01:21 PM

I, for one, recall several Steelcraft. Obviously the two in the Channel. Those were operated by the Pubic Utilities Commission. Marine Patrol had not been invented yet. The PUC boats did have blue and white paint and blue lights and sirens and occasionally served as police boats, but there wasn't much to police in the 50's, so navaid maintenance, rescue work, were more the order of the day. Not many other boats and not so many rules about riding on the gunwale or bow, safe passage, water skiing, PWC's etc.
In addition to the "Pyrofax" delivering propane, Floyd Miller had one as a work boat to push his barge/crane around. Capt. Ed Lavallee had a larger one (34-36'?) to deliver mail when the Uncle Sam was taken out of service and before the PT boat. There was one on Welch Island. Perhaps one of the above, recycled: somebody installed huge air horns on a Steelcraft and named it the Horny Toad. Camp Kehonka had a Steelcraft, I think.

02-14-2021, 01:21 PM	#4
Descant Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Merrimack and Welch Island Posts: 4,030 Thanks: 1,208 Thanked 1,509 Times in 982 Posts	More Steelcraft I, for one, recall several Steelcraft. Obviously the two in the Channel. Those were operated by the Pubic Utilities Commission. Marine Patrol had not been invented yet. The PUC boats did have blue and white paint and blue lights and sirens and occasionally served as police boats, but there wasn't much to police in the 50's, so navaid maintenance, rescue work, were more the order of the day. Not many other boats and not so many rules about riding on the gunwale or bow, safe passage, water skiing, PWC's etc. In addition to the "Pyrofax" delivering propane, Floyd Miller had one as a work boat to push his barge/crane around. Capt. Ed Lavallee had a larger one (34-36'?) to deliver mail when the Uncle Sam was taken out of service and before the PT boat. There was one on Welch Island. Perhaps one of the above, recycled: somebody installed huge air horns on a Steelcraft and named it the Horny Toad. Camp Kehonka had a Steelcraft, I think.