Here is an update on all the data we have so far on the six post-war LV tugs..information has been gathered from this thread and anything else I could find on tugboat webpages around the internet..I will add this to the "LV survivors" page soon..
anyone have anything else to add to this?
there are still quite a bit of holes in the data!
more research to do..
Tug Boats
4 LV Tugboats still exist!
of the 6 post-war LV tugs.
Bethlehem
The LVRR Tug "Bethelem" still exists.
She is in South Carolina, and operates with Moran as the "Christopher B. Turecamo", out of Charleston.
1953 - built by Jakobson Shipyard, Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY, for the Lehigh Valley Railroad.
Hull no. 346
O/N 0266784
later became "Shannon Smith" for New Orleans' Crescent Towing & Salvage Co.
and is currently the "Christopher B. Turecamo" operating for Moran at Charleston, SC.
Capmoore
The Capmoore is currently out of service in Charlestown, Mass. (August 2005)
Her future is uncertain, and she could possibly be scrapped.
see this thread for more info:
http://www.railroad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=670
Cornell
The LVRR Tug "Cornell" still exists. She spent her LV career on the New York City waterfront.
Today she is back home in New York City, after almost 60 years as a working tug.
She is still named "Cornell" today.
current pictures!
(before repainting into LV scheme)
http://www.trainweb.org/gggrs/RR-LV-Cor ... derway.jpg
(current paintscheme)
http://www.tug44.org/erie.canal/waterfo ... ndup-2007/
1949 - The Cornell was built at Jakobson Shipyard, Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY
O/N 0259949
1950 - went into service with the LV in New York harbor.
1971 - Sold to Ross Towing of Boston, and spent the next 30 years working around Boston.
19xx - Owned by Boston Towing & Transportation.
2003 - Sold to Tibbets Towing and moved south to Maryland.
2007 - Sold to Lehigh Maritime, and moved again, this time back to her original home, the Hudson river and New York City.
during 2007 she was restored and repainted in her original LV Cornell Red paintscheme!
http://tugboatcornell.com/
Wilkes Barre
The LVRR Tug "Wilkes Barre" still exists. (maybe)
1949 - The Wilkes Barre was built at Jakobson Shipyard, Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY
O/N 0258938
The Wilkes Barre was last known as the "Julia C. Moran" and is believed to now be in Mexico.
While trying to find out more info on the Wilkes Barre, I discovered there was a much earlier tug also named the "Julia C. Moran", built in 1906!
There seems to be some confusion over the tugboat name "Julia C. Moran" because some on-line tugboat sources indicate the Julia was built new for Moran in 1951 (by Jakobson)
So was the LV's Wilkes Barre actually a THIRD Julia C. Moran?
First, there was the 1906 Julia C. Moran, also mentioned in a 1916 New York times article available on-line.
That first Julia is not in question.
The question concerns the second, and possibly third Julia.
Was there only one 1950's Julia? or Two?
Was the first Julia built new for Moran, and the second Julia was the Wilkes Barre?
or were they one and the same? (which would mean the second Julia was not built new for Moran, but was instead built new for the LV)
or was the LV Wilkes Barre never actually a Julia C. Moran at all? and that info is simply wrong??
it is all uncertain at this point.
Thats four of the six LV "post-war" tugs surviving, the other two:
Hazleton
The Hazleton was sunk on November 6, 2004, off the coast of New Jersey to become part of an artificial reef.
1950 - The Hazleton was built at Jakobson Shipyard, Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY for the LVRR.
ship number 259281.
The Hazleton's last operating name was the "Captian Bill" of the company McAllister Tug,
she was renamed the "Veronica M" just before she was sunk, and retains that name in her new "life" as a sunken artificial reef.
click here for photos of the Hazleton being sunk:
http://www.gotosnapshot.com/veronica-m/ronnies-tug.htm
and here for some photos of the Hazleton as a reef:
http://www.gotosnapshot.com/veronica-m/ ... -tug-2.htm
Lehigh
The Lehigh was later the "Swan Point"
reported scrapped.
no other details known at this time.
thanks,
Scot