Lightship Huron’s Twin GM Diesels To Roar Again
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By Sue Clark | Source: Lighthouse News
Volunteers with the Port Huron (Michigan) Museum this week have finished putting on the last tweaks to the engine that ran the 97 foot lightship’s electricity, according to a story in the Port Huron Times Herald.
Next, the twin GM diesels that provided the boat’s propulsion are in their plans to rebuild to a running state. But the lightship isn’t going anywhere…it’s been landlocked for more than thirty years at Pine Grove Park.
So why rebuild the engines to a running state? Easy, according to volunteer Chris Tabor.
“(It’s important) just to have a display, even though we can’t make it go anywhere,” he said in the story. “It’s so much more if it’s a working museum.”
Read the full story at Lighthouse News >>
