G.W. Rogers
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G.W. Rogers was a tugboat active on the Great Lakes.
She was built in 1919, at Great Yarmouth, in the United Kingdom.
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|url = http://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/23524/data?n=3
|title = Steam screw G.W. ROGERS
| work = Maritime History of the Great Lakes
|archivedate = 4 March 2016
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304054137/http://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/23524/data?n=3
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Her previous names included: Ballen Balloch, West Hope and Ocean Gull.
She helped free the lake freighter George M. Carl, when she ran aground off the mouth of the Humber River, in 1975.
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|url = http://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/66008/data?n=1
|title = Tugs Lac Como, William Rest, G.W. Rogers and Bagotvilee tried to free George M. Carl
| work = Maritime History of the Great Lakes
|date = 27 December 1975
|accessdate = 2 January 2012
|url-status = dead
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062522/http://images.maritimehistoryofthegreatlakes.ca/66008/data?n=1
|archivedate = 4 March 2016
}}
The G.W. Rogers sank at her moorings at Rensselaer, New York in December 1987.
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| url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1917&dat=19871209&id=GxAhAAAAIBAJ&sjid=T3IFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3152,2472807
| title = Floating Crane needed to raise Tug
| publisher = Schenectady Gazette
| author = Brian Nearing
| date = 9 December 1987
| page = 13
| accessdate = 11 December 2012
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A port official told the Schenectady Gazette that the vessel was so rusty her name was "nearly illegible". The Schenectady Gazette reported that a floating crane would have to be brought from New York City to salvage the tug, as the combined weight of the vessel and a land-based crane would overwhelm the moorings.