A month ago, I posted some really random tugs here, including the one below in the mysterious Miami River. Yesterday, thanks to Robert Cremer, the tug below was identified as LT-1970, a Higgins Industries October 1953-delivered tug once known as Okinawa. Thanks much to Robert. The photo below is taken by Allan Seymour.
The next set of photos comes from Mike Abegg, last North American captain of Half Moon, now not-yet arrived in Hoorn.
These photos were taken over near SUNY Maritime. The tug tending the barges I thought would look this, but actually Moran has sold it to Norfolk Tug, and the photos below shows its current livery. Sorry if that sounds confusing.
And the following photos from Brunswick, GA, come from Dirk van der Doe via Jan.
Here’s Ann Moran,
Peter G. Turecamo, and
Mary Loy Turecamo.
And the final photo today comes from Rich Taylor. La Dani (1981) illustrates what I enjoy about seeing tugboats from other ports in the watery parts of the world. I’ve seen no US built tug that looks quite like this. Here’s a page devoted to the Dunston portion of her builder.
Many thanks to Robert, Allan, Mike, Dirk, and Rich for photos and information in today’s post.
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April 20, 2015 at 7:07 pm
William Lafferty
Okinawa LT 1970 was, indeed, built by Higgins, Inc., at New Orleans in 1953 for the United States Army, Higgins’s hull no. 11651. Sold Panamanian in 2001 to Ambridge Panama, it retained the name Okinawa. It still sports its original Fairbanks, Morse 37F16 six-cylinder Diesel, 1200-bh. It’s now in Bolivian registry, but up for sale by United Dredging Corporation at Miami.