This beautiful, clear and well-lit George Lilley image shows a muddy-hulled vessel seemingly named 'Corps of Engineers' dated June 2, 1949. When I came across it in the Queen's University Archives, it was a mystery!
The story behind the photo: this is the US Army Corps of Engineers seagoing trailing suction hopper dredge Taylor, 200 feet in length with a 1500-ton capacity, a crew of 30 and a draft of 17 feet when loaded. Launched as the Willets Point in New Jersey in 1925 and renamed Taylor in 1932, the dredge was based in Buffalo, responsible for lake dredging by the Corps between Ogdensburg and Detroit. At the Kingston shipyards for a starboard propeller replacement and other work over the course of four days, the Taylor was decomissioned five years later.
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