First, see these three photos from 2009 with updates. I passed by this spot in Seaford DE this past week . . . on a mission, and the former Flagship Nanticoke Queen restaurant is no more. Only a graded lot remains where the USS McKeever Brothers (SP-683) WW1 patrol and minesweeper vessel and fishing boat both before that and after the war once was. Route 13 has a bit less character. The wooden hull was likely buried in a landfill.
From 2009, this is the 1958 Jakobson-built Dalzelleagle and then McAllister Brothers. And yesterday, she was was towed away to be scrapped. At temperatures between 2500 and 2750°F, that steel will puddle and take new shapes. Tomorrow I’ll post more photos of this 1958 beauty.
Another photo from 2009 of the 1907 Pegasus . . . now also history and headed for the same high temperatures and red hot puddles.
A photo from 2012 . . . Siberian Sea, still afloat, and currently called Mike Azzolino.
Also still extant, in fact, David Silver took this photo less than a week ago, the May 1921 launched Day Peckinpaugh. Yes, that is the Erie Canal between Locks E2 and E3. The canal water level is drawn down in the winter/spring for maintenance.
May 21, 1921 precisely was the day Interwaterways 101 came off the ways at the McDougall-Duluth Company shipyard. Shouldn’t we hold a socially distanced party for the freight ship?
Here was the neat and active Eriemax freighter in 1961.
Thanks to David and Craig for use of their Day Peckinpaugh photos; the others from 2009 and 2012, WVD.
As to the tragedy of 231′ x 71′ Seacor Power, Seacor Supporter, 131′ x 66′ , came to do some work in the sixth boro here a few years ago. Brazos is 145′ x 100′.
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April 18, 2021 at 1:35 pm
William Lafferty
The Interwaterways Lines Incorporated 101 (better known today as the Day Peckinpaugh) left on its maiden voyage the evening of 21 May 1921, arriving 9 June at Buffalo with 83000 bushels of oats, then heading down the canal to New York. The vessel was launched 23 April 1921.
April 19, 2021 at 10:14 am
tugster
William– Thx for that launch date. The 23rd is this Friday.
April 18, 2021 at 4:00 pm
Frederick Harry Mallett
For a Jaks built tug in 1982 the Mike Azzolino should be should be be very busy moving barges. I remember when it was the Texaco Av Jet and one of the best tugs Texaco had. I worked on this tug as the deckhand, mate, and relief captain. As built this tug do not have a towing winch but rather a heavy 11 inch rope hawser.
April 18, 2021 at 5:01 pm
eastriver
Good one, Will. Back in the day when I went down 13 occasionally, I always looked for her…