See the caption on the photo from 1963. Eugenia Moran is in the foreground. Off its stern is a tugboat that looks a lot like Urger, but has the name Seneca on it. Which Seneca was that?
Eugenia herself is quite interesting. She would be wearing Moran colors for only a year here. She’s from 1938, Jakobson, Brooklyn.
Many thanks to Jason LaDue for the photo.
Here’s the Seneca I know . . .
And talking about the Erie Canal, central NYS has seen a lot of rain the past few days, draining it all through the Mohawk Valley, making some current (understatement) and resulting in string of locks being closed. Check the notices and alerts. Cohoes Falls might be looking mighty these days.
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July 15, 2021 at 12:42 pm
William Lafferty
That Seneca was built at Erie, Pennsylvania, by and for Frank Tollon, formerly of the American Boiler Works, as the P. J. Grant, named for a local shipowner. The State of New York purchased it in 1923 and converted it from steam to Diesel in 1928. The photograph shows it in its last year of operation for the Canal. Retired, it was sold in 1972 to Blue Water Construction Co., Inc., of Grand Island, New York. and in 1980 to G. E. Wolfe Transportation Lines, Inc., of the same place. It disappears sometime in the ’80s.
July 15, 2021 at 6:33 pm
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Thx, William.