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Gladys B #236798
Length 110 feet - Breadth 28.2 feet - Single screw harbor tug
Built 1937 by Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, VA(hull #366).

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Last Updated at 16:56 on Saturday, March 14, 2020
Copyright Photo by Capt. Billy Smith - Thanks, Billy!
Pushing A Short Tow In NOLA, 10/2010

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Fairbanks Morse 38D8 1/8 diesel, 2400 hp.
Originally F. M. Whitaker, owned by
Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co., Richmond, VA.
Acquired by E.N. Bisso and Son Inc., Metairie, LA,
renamed Gladys B 1964.
Call Sign: WDC3024
Phased out of active service, dropped from documentation 2014.
Laid up 4/2018. "Reefed" in 100 feet of water off Mobile Bay, AL.
(Above information augmented by TugboatInformation.com)



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