Nellie Bly was a steam-powered tugboat that served a number of roles in Ontario, Canada.
She was operated in Toronto, performing regular harbour duties, and also serving as a fireboat.[1]She played a role in fighting an important fire in 1906.
Later she was owned by a series of timber companies, that used her to tow logs and scows of logging byproducts on the Magnetawan River and its tributaries.[2] She ran aground and was holed on a rock on Duck Lake, but was quickly repaired.
The Nellie Bly was 52 feet (16 m) long, and her single cylinder steam engine propelled her with a 5 feet (1.5 m) propeller.[2]