Edna G

The Edna G is a tugboat which worked the Great Lakes. The railroad paid $35,397.50 for the Edna G. in 1896. It was out of service from 1931 to 1933 due to the depression. The Edna G. was built by the Cleveland Shipbuilding Company in 1896 for the Duluth & Iron Range RY. She spent her entire working career at Two Harbors with the exception of World War I (1917–1919) when she served on the eastern seaboard. Over the years the Edna G. was involved in several shipwreck rescues. Her last tow was the Cason J. Calloway on December 30, 1980 She was the last coal-fired, steam-engine tug in service on the lakes when she was retired in 1981.^[2][4] Her home port being Two Harbors, Minnesota, she primarily moved ships and barges carrying iron ore and taconite from the Mesabi Range and other smaller sites in the Iron Range region of northeast Minnesota. The ship was named for the daughter of J. L. Greatsinger, president of the Duluth & Iron Range Railroad Company.^[4]

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