Re: PETER C. GALLAGHER
Posted by:
phil morgan (IP Logged)
Date: October 14, 2017 04:45AM
AT6 – Penacook US Navy Harbor Tug YT (Miscellaneous) Registered: (USA)ON 253622 143 GRT, (92'6"x21'1"x9'0") steel, 1 scr, steam, sp 12kn re-engined 1951 diesel GM type EMD/CD 12-567, 1050bhp
TUGBOAT No 6 1898 -29/10: Launched by "New York Naval Yard" at Brooklyn, NY.(USA) (keel laid 08/02/1898) 1899 -07/05: commissioned with the US Navy, assigned to the 1st Naval District, for the Portsmouth Naval Station, in Kittery, Maine(USA) 19xx: redesignated AT 6 PENACOOK 1920 -17/07: redesignated YT 6 PENACOOK 1944 -15/05: redesignated YTM 6 PENACOOK 1945 -xx/09: selected for disposal 1947 -12/08: To "Downer Towing Corp" at New York (USA), renamed DOWNER (USA flag, regd New York, ON 253622) 1951: rebuilt by "Wiley Manufacturing Co" at Port Deposit, Md.(USA), re-engined diesel GM type EMD/CD 12-567, 1050bhp 1954: To "Gallagher Brothers Sand & Gravel" at New York (USA), renamed PETER C. GALLAGHER 19xx: To James Gallagher at New York (USA) ?? 19xx: To "Hampton Scows" ?? 1998 -19/08: capsized and sank at her pier in North River in lower West Side -Manhattan and broken up in situ No details found
Phil