Re: (erielack) Erie tug sunk

["Neil Weinberg" <laurellines_@_gmail.com>]

"how do you spell accurate" ?  Neil W.

On 8/31/07, Janet & Randy Brown <jananran_@_mymailstation.com> wrote:
>
> 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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