New York Central Tugboat 13
New York Central Railroad Tugboat No. 13 is a railroad tug boat built in 1887 in Camden, New Jersey by John A. Dialogue and Sons.
It is currently undergoing extensive renovation at Garpo Marine in Tottenville, Staten Island.
This 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 232 horsepower, replaced with two General Motors 6-110 diesel engines in the 1950s. The engines sit back-to-back and drive a central Falk gearbox, which turns the single propeller. Two new keel coolers from Fernstrum have been installed in a recessed box in the hull to cool the engines.
The hull is riveted and made of wrought iron.
Other vessels built by John A. Dialogue and Sons include:
- The Hercules (1907) at the San Francisco Maritime Museum, hull number 204801.
- The Susan Elizabeth (1886) launched as the C. C. Clark and briefly served as New York Central No. 3.[1] This boat was broken up in the fall of 2008 in the same yard in Tottenville, Staten Island, New York where New York Central 13 is being restored.
- The Elise Anne Connors (1881)
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- ^ "Susan Elizabeth". http://tugmuseum.com/susan.htm. Retrieved 2011-05-29.
