Know that boat below? Answer follows. It’s recently been in the news. This trove of photos comes from JG, an out-of-towner whom I sometimes meet along the KVK. This photo was taken between 2001 and 2007.
Seguin (1972, YTB-816 Campti) has been sold foreign. Anyone know where? The photo below was taken in 2003.
Hercules (YTB-766, Wapakoneta) has also gone foreign, to Nigeria, as documented on this blog here.
Natick (YTB-760, Natick) was completed at Jakobson’s although construction began elsewhere. The photo below was taken in 2009.
This photo of Phoenix LT-1975 was taken in 2007 in Constellation Maritime colors. She’s currently in Maine as Fournier Brothers.
King Philip, shown here in 2007, currently works as Olon in Panama.
Chicopee, shown here in 2007, was built in 1952 by Higgins Industries as Army tug LT-1966. Anyone know where she is today?
Ludwig E., which became Nathan E. Stewart in 2007, sank in October and was raised earlier this month. Anyone know if she will be refurbished?
Many thanks to JG for use of these photos.
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November 30, 2016 at 1:01 pm
Fairlane
After being salvaged, Nathan E Stewart was barged down to the Fraser River where she is due to be dismantled by AMIX. As far as I know, the bottom damage incurred while she was grounded was such that it would be prohibitively expense to repair.
December 4, 2016 at 2:46 pm
tugster
Thx, Fairlane. Here’s a blogpost that tells and documents the salvage of Nathan E Stewart very well: https://blueoceanmariner.wordpress.com/2016/11/24/the-wreck-of-the-nathan-e-stewart/
December 2, 2016 at 8:58 pm
George Schneider
Oddly, not ABS nor Equasis nor the Coast Guard seem to know of the HERCULES or SEGUIN going foreign.
NATICK was one of a series built by Southern Shipbuilding Co. in Slidell, LA. Nothing in Navy records indicate she was completed by Jakobson’s, but I do see that, when she was auctioned by the Navy, they was listed as her builder. I tend to think that’s one of the errors that creep in at the time of sale, when handled by people who don’t have access to Navy source documents.
CHICOPEE’s documents expired about 1992, but she was seen idle at the Tucker Roy Salvage Yard in New Bedford as recently as 2008, I’m told that the whole nest of idle vessels there were eventually scrapped.