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Catawissa (tugboat)

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Fate
  
Scrapped 2008

Beam
  
19 ft (5.8 m)

Installed power
  
Triple-expansion steam

Year built
  
1898

Owner
  
Reading Company

Tonnage
  
558 GRT

Depth
  
18 ft (5.5 m)

Length
  
48 m

Builder
  
Harlan and Hollingsworth

Added to NRHP
  
8 August 1996

Catawissa (tugboat)

Location
  
Lock 3, NY State Barge Canal, Erie Div., Waterford, New York

Catawissa was a historic tugboat located at Waterford in Saratoga County, New York. She was built in 1896-1897 by Harlan and Hollingsworth of Wilmington, Delaware for the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad to tow coal barges between ports on the Eastern Seaboard. She was 158 feet in length, 19 feet in beam and 18 feet in depth. She was registered at 558 gross tons. She had a riveted steel framed and plated hull.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996, Catawissa was scrapped in 2008.

References

Catawissa (tugboat) Wikipedia