Evelyn S was built in 1939 Sturgeon Bay Boat Works for William Sellman Fisheries in Manistique, Michigan.

To protect the boat from frozen waters of Lake Michigan, the Evelyn S. is sheathed in 3/16" welded steel plates.

The tug has a fully enclosed deck, sometimes called a turtle back design, to protect fisherman from the freezing waters of the Great Lakes.

At the maritime festival the Evelyn S put on a tug-of-war event, on the Black River, against another South Haven fish tug named Elsie J.

Evelyn S was raised and refloated on January 30 by a crane of Olson Brothers Contractors of South Haven.