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Saturday 31 March 2018

American screw steam inland harbour tug Baltimore 1906-


At Baltimore, Maryland, USA
With our thanks for allowing us to publish

Built by the Skinner Shipbuilding Company, Baltimore, Maryland, USA for the Baltimore Harbor Boardin 1906, handed over to the Maryland Port Authority in 1956, sold to Alexander Luckton Jr., in 1963, next sold to the Harbor Towing Company, Baltimore and sold again to Samuel F. and Joanna K. DuPont and converted into a steam yacht, sunk in 1979 and in 1981 given to the Baltimore Museum of Industry. Official number 203700.

Displacement 51 (net)-81 (gross) tons and as dimensions 25,8 metres or 84.5 x 18.6 x 8.2 (hold) feet. Machinery consisted of a compound double-acting vertical -inverted reciprocating steam engine and a Scotch marine boiler. Rivetted wrought iron made hull while the deckhouse is made of Georgia pine.