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Father Mychal Judge (ship)

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Name
  
Father Mychal Judge

Operator
  
NY Waterway

In service
  
March 2002

Length
  
20 m

Builder
  
Sitka

Namesake
  
Mychal Judge

Christened
  
February 20, 2002

Identification
  
MMSI 366834160

Weight
  
0.0286 tons

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The Father Mychal Judge is a NY Waterway ferry named in honor of Mychal Judge a New York City pastor who was murdered in al Qaeda's attacks on September 11, 2001.

The vessel was christened in March 2002. The ferry participated in the rescue of passengers of US Airways Flight 1549 that remarkably successfully safely landed on the Hudson River on 15 January 2009. On April 6, 2012, her captain, Mohamed Gouda, led his crew in a second rescue of the crew of capsized barge Katherine G..

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