Thanks to a friend for passing along these photos, which follow on Other Peoples Photos and Chancellor 2 from several years ago. File this under . . . not many machines live forever or even for a century. In the photo below, you almost get the sense that an 85-year-old tugboat is about to get some much needed TLC aka spa treatment, but
as seen from the other side,
it looks like strike 3 for keeping her intact. She’s been opened up, prepped as an organ donor, I hope.
Thanks for these photos . . . MK. This is not the ending I expected after the auction.
Related only in concept, organ donation info can be found here.
A one-year-older “shipyard sister” of Chancellor –currently called Patriotic–can be seen here. Does anyone have recent photos of Patriotic?
tugster: a waterblog 
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January 17, 2023 at 12:39 pm
Daniel Meeter
In the summer of 1968 (or maybe 69) on the Great South Bay, our clamboat had conked out and we were drifting lazily through the Bay, and in the Corps of Engineers channel, and we were dozing, till suddenly a loud horn woke us up and a Patchogue-bound oil tanker was bearing down on us. We paddled furiously. I am now thinking it must have been a Bushey boat.
January 17, 2023 at 2:29 pm
Tom Turner
99% sure I saw Patriotic docked (or possibly out of the water) in the Jersey City canal back in May. But it was tucked away and I didn’t find easy access (which perhaps there is/was) but I was losing daylight and couldn’t check for sure or get a photo. Before that in Bayonne in2007. So if so, hasn’t moved far in years