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thoroughly enjoyed the article on the and its nearly 100-year-old diesel engine (“Time Machine,” February). It took me back over 40 years when a longtime diving friend owned the Peterson-built, gill net tug, . Built in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, in the mid-1930s, it was powered by a two-cylinder, 60-hp Kahlenberg Brothers diesel engine.

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