Standard Oil Company No. 16 (harbor tug) explained
| -- commercial vessels --> | +No. 16| Ship Image: | Tugboats_Pegasus_and_Patriotic_September_2019.jpg | | Ship Caption: | Pegasus moored inboard of the tug Patriotic in Morris Canal Basin, September 2019. |
| Ship Renamed: | - SOCONY 16 (1915)
- Esso Tug No. 1 (1947) John E. McAllister (c.1953)
- Pegasus (1987)
| | Ship Owner: | - Standard Oil Company (1907–1915)
- Standard Transportation Company (1915–1947)
- Esso Shipping (1947–c.1953)
- McAllister Towing and Transportation Company (c.1953–)
- Hepburn Marine (1987-2021)
| | Ship Builder: | Skinner Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company | | Ship Launched: | 1907 | | Ship Fate: | Scrapped in 2021 |
| Ship Type: | Tugboat | | Ship Length: | 100feet | | Ship Beam: | 23feet | | Ship Depth: | 11.2feet | | Ship Power: | - Steam (1907–c.1953)
- Diesel (c.1953–)
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| Embed: | yes | | Standard Oil Company No. 16 (harbor tug) | | Location: | 3001 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, New York | | Coordinates: | 40.6383°N -74.1597°W | | Map Width: | 300 | | Built: | 1907 | | Architect: | Skinner Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. | | Architecture: | harbor tug | | Added: | 29 November 2001 | | Delisted: | 7 June 2024 | | Refnum: | 01001321 |
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Standard Oil Company No. 16, later
Pegasus, was a historic harbor
tugboat located at
Morris Canal Basin, Jersey City, New Jersey. She was built in 1907 by the
Skinner Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company of
Baltimore, Maryland for the
Standard Oil Company. She had heavy steel frames and deck beams. She was 100 feet in length, 23 feet in beam and 11.2 feet in depth. She was registered at 175 gross tons. She had an original wooden
pilot house and the engine room dated to 1953-1954 when converted from steam to diesel. At that time, Standard Oil sold the tug to the McAllister Towing and Transportation Company and she was renamed
McAllister 41. In 1955, she was renamed
John E. McAllister.[1] [2] Pamela Hepburn acquired the tug in 1987 and renamed her Pegasus. She served with Hepburn in commercial service for 10 years until her retirement in 1997.[2] Subsequently, efforts were made to preserve the 90-year-old tug, and she was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. Pegasus was docked at Pier 25 in Manhattan as a museum ship for 13 years, but the preservation group began running into funding problems around 2015, and the tug had to be moved to Morris Canal Basin in Jersey City.[3] Ultimately the group was unable to continue to maintain Pegasus, and she was towed to Staten Island for scrapping in March 2021.[2] [4] She was delisted from the National Register in 2024.
Notes and References
- Web site: National Register of Historic Places Registration: Standard Oil Company No. 16 . June 2001 . 2010-12-10 . Norman J. . Brouwer . New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
Web site: Accompanying 11 photos.
- Web site: SOCONY 16 . Tugboat Information . 2013-07-06.
- Web site: Pegasus, a Tugboat and Floating Museum, Hits Rough Waters. 3 July 2015. 27 July 2022. The New York Times.
- Web site: Tug Pegasus hitching a ride to that great tugboat anchorage in the sky. Facebook. 24 March 2021. 27 July 2022.
