[Diver1111]

While I do lake research all year round as the need arises, off-season I dig deeper into materials I have found.

I am now searching all 60 issues (each issue spans multiple years) of the Granite State News-165 gigabytes of data-covering 1861 to 1985 for various things I am looking for (like the Seneca) and 3 days ago came across a reference to oil being shuttled around the lake on steamers to various points. The piece did not say what the oil was for but it's fair to say heating and/or fuel oil for some sort of furnaces or engines.

For this reason I think that the purpose of the hose and nozzle was to move oil off the tug, but a longer hose would seem to be in order.

Good call APS-I didn't see that on the tug.

Thanks all for your input-I find it really helpful when people reply to my posts and I greatly appreciate it.

HH