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M & J Tracy Inc. was a shipping and tugboat towing company founded in New York City by the racy brothers in 1881, as M & J Tracy Transportation company. The brothers: John Tracy, Michael J. Tracy and Thomas Tracy founded the Tracy Towing Line in 1917. The brother's sisters: Catherine Tracy and Helen Tracy were on the company's board.
The YT-46-class harbor tugboat was a wood-hulled tugboat design ordered by the U.S. Navy in May and June 1918 during World War I. [2] 40 ships of the type (Harbor Tugs Nos. 46-85) [2] were launched and completed at 13 shipyards: the Charleston Navy Yard; the New Orleans Naval Yard; the Clayton Ship & Boat Building Company, Clayton, New York; the Eastern Shipyard Company, Greenport, New York ...
Later Marion Smith 1978, Brooklyn III 1979, New York 1979, Pleon 1989. (Unknown) Tug 1953: 344: Brooklyn III: Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal Tug 262 1953: Scrapped 1996. 345: Cross Harbor I: Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal Tug 262 1953: Later New Jersey. Sunk 2007. 346: Bethlehem: Tug 241 1953: Later Shannon Smith, now Christopher B ...
The Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal (reporting mark BEDT) was a shortline railroad and marine terminal with its main facilities and administrative offices located on 86–88 Kent Avenue (now part of East River State Park and Bushwick Inlet Park) in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York City.
Bouchard Transportation Co., Inc, based in Melville, New York, and founded in 1918, was a closely held family-owned company that provided oil and petroleum product transportation in the United States. The company operated 26 tugboats and 25 oil tanker barges.
The Gwendoline Steers was a tugboat owned by the Steers Sand & Gravel Company of New York, NY (incorrectly spelled "Gwendolyn Steers" in some newspaper accounts). It sank in an ice storm in Long Island Sound approaching the mouth of Huntington Bay, New York on December 30, 1962, with the loss of the entire crew of nine.
U.S. Army ST-488 is an 86 ft (26 m) harbor tugboat, design 327-A, of the numerical series 885-490 built by J.K. Welding & Co shipyards in Brooklyn, New York in 1944.The Army's ST small tugs ranged generally from about 55 ft (17 m) to 92 ft (28 m) in length as opposed to the larger seagoing LT tugs. [4]
Bouker No. 2, originally Robert Rogers, was a tugboat built in 1904 for merchant service in and around the waters of New York City.During World War I, the tug was commissioned into the United States Navy as USS Bouker No. 2 (SP-1275), and continued in naval service (later with the designation YT-30) until 1921.