Here’s a mystery, a 1919 UK-built tug named G. W. Rogers that sank in Rensselaer in December 1987. Click on the photo itself to get more info. The mystery is this: which floating crane raised it and what became of it later?
Next mystery: what became of the wooden floating drydock that used to be at Caddell’s? I took this photo of Stephen Scott high and dry before 2009.
Same dry dock, same time frame, different tugboat, Franklin Reinauer.
Ditto . . . this time Miss New Jersey.
Again . . . John B. Caddell
And again . . . the old Kristin Poling, the same wooden floating dry dock.
Hiow about a different dry dock, as seen from shore, but still in a dry dock at Caddell’s. Question: which tugboat under rehab might that be? Answer follows.
And to end this, it’s Mariner III at Caddell’s getting a haul out last summer.
As of this writing, the 1926 Mariner III is near Palm Beach.
All photos except the top one by WVD. Top photo by Robert Taylor.
And the mystery tug is Marjorie B. McAllister.
Question about G. W. Rogers, thanks to tugboathunter.
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February 13, 2021 at 1:26 pm
ws
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February 25, 2021 at 3:03 pm
George Schneider
I’m not sure of the identity, but I do have a note that a wooden DRYDOCK NO 2, measuring 136 x 66 was donated by Caddell in 2002 to the North River Tugboat Museum in Kingston. That museum identified her as having been built by Hildebrant Shipyard in Kingston in 1916.
Lloyds Register showed Caddell as having a wooden drydock measuring 180 x 56, which is probably different and may have remained into the timeframe of your photos. It, too, was identified as DRYDOCK NO 2.
February 25, 2021 at 6:20 pm
tugster
Thx, George. The mystery dry dock photos were all taken after 2002. The one that went to Kingston had a sad end. I should do a followup post on that one.