There’s nothing new that I know about Twin Tube, but she cuts a unique image as she works year round.  She came off the ways in 1951, and just moves along doing essential and almost invisible work.  Here’s a post I did on her four years ago telling about her previous incarnations.  Here are many others with photos, with or without (as here) her boom.

 

What’s interesting to me is that the port of Philadelphia has (I’m not sure it’s still there.)  a similar Blount-built vessel called Sailor, launched in 1977.  It appears to have the same basic plan but with the orientation reversed, as you can see here.

Here’s something to research:  Sailor had previously been El Paso Sailor.  Where did it work in that iteration?   Surely, it didn’t work here.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.