New York Central Tugboat 13

New York Central Railroad Tugboat 13 is a railroad tugboat built in 1887 in Camden, New Jersey by John H. Dialogue and Son. The tugboat was built for the New York Central Railroad to push barges, called car floats, carrying railroad cars and other freight across the waterways of New York Harbor.

Tugboat 13

History
United States
Owner:	New York Central Railroad (1887–1955) Kosnac Floating Derrick Corporation (1955–)
Builder:	John H. Dialogue and Son[1]
Launched:	1887
Renamed:	Hay-De (c. 1960s)
Identification:	155151
Fate:	Scrapped in 2017
General characteristics
Tonnage:	103 GT 51 NT
Length:	90 ft (27 m)
Beam:	19 ft 5 in (5.92 m)
Draft:	10 ft 2 in (3.10 m)
Depth:	10 ft 3 in (3.12 m)
Decks:	1
Installed power:	Two-cylinder compound steam engine 232 hp (173 kW) (1887–1950s) 2 × GM 6-110 diesel engines (1950s–)
Propulsion:	Falk gearbox, single screw

It originally had a steam engine of 232 horsepower (173 kW), replaced with two General Motors 6-110 diesel engines in the 1950s. The engines sit back-to-back and drive a central Falk gearbox, which turns the single propeller.

The hull is riveted and made of wrought iron.

After 2002, it underwent extensive renovation at Garpo Marine in Tottenville, Staten Island. Two new keel coolers from Fernstrum were installed in a recessed box in the hull to cool the engines.

Efforts to restore the ship seemingly failed in the intervening years, and she was scrapped in 2017 in Tottenville.[2]

Other vessels built by John H. Dialogue and Son

• Hercules (1907) at the San Francisco Maritime Museum, hull number 204801.
• Susan Elizabeth (1886) launched as C. C. Clark and briefly served as New York Central No. 3.[3] This boat was broken up in the fall of 2008 in the same yard in Tottenville, Staten Island, New York where Tugboat 13 was being restored.
• Elise Anne Connors (1881)

Photos

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  New York Central tugboats 13 and 15
• 
  New York Central tugboat 13 on lift
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  New York Central tugboat and barges

See also

• New York Central Tugboat 16

References

1. Fischer, Eric (20 July 2009). "A bit of history". New York Central No. 13.
2. "New York Central No. 13". Tugboat Information. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
3. "Susan Elizabeth". Archived from the original on 29 May 2009. Retrieved 29 May 2011.

External links

• Sutherland, Don (21 May 2002). "Is this Tugboat Sunk". National Trust for Historic Preservation.
• Fischer, Eric. "A photoblog of the restoration of an 1887 iron hulled tugboat". New York Central No. 13.
• "Point Highland, 1962" (pdf). United States Coast Guard Historian's Office.