New York Central Tugboat 13 Explained

-- commercial vessels -->	+Tugboat 13 Ship Renamed: Hay-De (c. 1960s) Ship Owner: New York Central Railroad (1887–1955) Kosnac Floating Derrick Corporation (1955–) Ship Country: United States Ship Builder: John H. Dialogue and Son^[1] Ship Launched: 1887 Ship Identification: 155151 Ship Fate: Scrapped in 2017 Ship Length: 90feet Ship Beam: 19inchesft5inchesin (ftin) Ship Draft: 10inchesft2inchesin (ftin) Ship Depth: 10inchesft3inchesin (ftin) Ship Decks: 1 Ship Power: Two-cylinder compound steam engine 232hp (1887–1950s) 2 × GM 6-110 diesel engines (1950s–) Ship Propulsion: Falk gearbox, single screw

New York Central Railroad Tugboat 13 was a railway tugboat built in 1887 in Camden, New Jersey by John H. Dialogue and Son. The tugboat was built for the New York Central Railroad to push barges, called car floats, carrying railroad cars and other freight across the waterways of New York Harbor.

It originally had a steam engine of, replaced with two General Motors 6-110 diesel engines in the 1950s. The engines sat back-to-back and drove a central Falk gearbox, which turned the single propeller.

The hull was riveted and made of wrought iron.

After 2002, the tugboat underwent extensive renovation at Garpo Marine in Tottenville, Staten Island. Two new keel coolers from Fernstrum were installed in a recessed box in the hull to cool the engines.

Efforts to restore the ship seemingly failed in the intervening years, and it was scrapped in 2017.^[2]

Other vessels built by John H. Dialogue and Son

• at the San Francisco Maritime Museum, hull number 204801.
• Susan Elizabeth (1886) launched as C. C. Clark and briefly served as New York Central No. 3.^[3] This boat was broken up in the fall of 2008 in the same yard in Tottenville, Staten Island, New York where Tugboat 13 was being restored.
• Elise Anne Connors (1881)

External links

• Web site: Is this Tugboat Sunk . Don . Sutherland . . 21 May 2002.
• Web site: A photoblog of the restoration of an 1887 iron hulled tugboat . Eric . Fischer . New York Central No. 13.
• Web site: Point Highland, 1962 . pdf . United States Coast Guard Historian's Office.

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Notes and References

1. Web site: A bit of history . Eric . Fischer . 20 July 2009 . New York Central No. 13.
2. Web site: New York Central No. 13. Tugboat Information. 1 August 2019.
3. Web site: Susan Elizabeth . 29 May 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090529123701/http://tugmuseum.com/susan.htm . 29 May 2009.