(erielack) Erie tug sunk

["Janet & Randy Brown" <jananran_@_mymailstation.com>]

A 92-year-old boat would have been built in 1915 as a steamer.  In the DIAMOND, Vol 12 #2, Ray Baxter's article on Erie's marine operations shows one boat built by Staten Island Shipbuilding in 1915:  the Charles P. Crawford, later to become the first Akron.  The only other tug built by Staten Island Shipbuilding in that timeframe was the William J. Davidson, later Binghamton, built in 1914.

Three other boats were built by Staten Island Shipbuilding as a division of Bethlehem Steel in 1953:  Akron (II), Binghamton and Elmira.

If the news story underlying the caption in Railpace is accutatre, the boat sunk at Red Bird Reef is the first Akron, ne Charles P. Crawford.

Randy Brown

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