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 Added to NRHP 8 August 1996 | |
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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.
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