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Aransas #611407
Length 62 feet - Breadth 22 feet - Twin screw towboat
Built 1979 by Thrift Shipbuilding & Repair, Sulphur, LA.

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Last Updated at 8:48 on Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Copyright Photo by Tom Waller - Thanks, Tom!
On The Houston, TX Ship Channel, 4/2011

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Volvo 162C diesels, 800 hp.
Twin Disc reduction gears, 6.48:1.
Retractable pilothouse.
Originally Habibi, owned by
Jerry I. Harless Towing, Inc., Lake Charles, LA.
Sold to South Texas Towing, Inc., Port Lavaca, TX 1989.
Sold to Dixie Marine, Inc., Houston, TX,
renamed Aransas 6/1992.
Transferred to Kirby Inland Marine LP, Houston, TX 1/1998.
Converted from conventional to retractable
pilothouse between 2006 and 2010.



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