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Chancellor . . . built pre-World War 2 in Brooklyn.  This post is timed to satisfy a request from Bob Price  . . . as follows:  “as part of a group working to restore the tug boat Chancellor, I am trying to find any extant engineering documentation regarding her construction details.  Built by Bushey & Sons in 1938, it is currently in the keeping of the Waterford Maritime Historical Society and my group of volunteers recently arranged to have it moved into dry dock at Lock 3 of the Erie Canal where we laboriously winterized it, pumped its bilges dry and a making plans to create a very thorough hit list of things to do.   If you would be so kind as to point me in the direction of any person or entity that might have access to drawings or any engineering related stuff pertaining to the Chancellor I would be most appreciative.  Thanks for your time.”    Bob Price    Knox, NY      518.xxx.xxxx   The first three fotos below come from Bob.

The next three I took in 2010.  Here she’s cruises north on the Hudson headed for Troy.

Here’s she’s downbound following W. O. Decker into the Federal Lock.

House down, she prepares to depart the bulkhead in Waterford.

And in my foto from either 2006 or  2007 she goes nose-to-nose with Gowanus Bay.

If anyone knows the whereabouts of construction drawings or other plans for Chancellor, you can also email me and I’ll pass the info on to Bob and his group.  Click here to see Fred tug44’s video of Chancellor being pushed upstream by the tagteam of Ben Elliot and National.