New Jersey Scuba Diving

Steven McAllister

Steven McAllister reef
Type:
artificial reef, tugboat, McAllister Towing, USA
Built:
1949, Jakobson Shipyard, Oyster Bay, NY USA, as Paterson
Specs:
( 95 x 25 ft )
Sponsor:
Hudson River Fishermen's Association of New Jersey
Sunk:
Friday September 22, 2000 - Sea Girt Artificial Reef
GPS:
40°06.883' -73°41.534'
Depth:
125 ft
Steven McAllister reef
As Paterson - at some point the wheelhouse must have been cut down, and other modifications made.
Steven McAllister reef
compass

This tug now lies upright with a slight list to starboard on a hard sand bottom. The top of the wreck is at a depth of 90 ft while the main deck is at 110 ft. The engine was removed prior to sinking.

Built in 1949, by Jakobson Shipyard of Oyster Bay, New York as the Paterson for the Erie Railroad Company of Jersey City, New Jersey. In 1960, the Erie Railroad Company became the Erie Lackawanna Railroad Company of Jersey City, New Jersey, where the tug retained her name. Later acquired by the McAllister Brothers Towing Company of New York, New York, where she was renamed Steven McAllister. She was a single screw tug, rated at 1,000 horsepower.

tugboatinformation.com

HRFA-NJ reef
Steven McAllister reef
Bill Figley - New Jersey Artificial Reef Coordinator

The old boat was sunk by opening the seacocks, which took much longer than anticipated - about 8 hours longer.

HRFA-NJ reef
The crew of the Mary L McAllister hosed water into the wreck for hours, trying to speed things up.
HRFA-NJ reef
Finally, moments before sinking, the Mary L unties and moves away.
HRFA-NJ reef
HRFA-NJ reef
HRFA-NJ reef

In the end, the "HRFA" sank so fast that I didn't even get a shot of it ! These were taken by Captain Steve Nagiewicz. It took less than a minute for the old tug to roll over and sink.

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Wood & Organic Materials

white pine
Eastern White Pine (softwood)
red oak
Red Oak (hardwood)

All woods turn black after prolonged immersion.

Botanically, wood is the xylem tissue that forms the bulk of the stem of a woody plant. Xylem conducts sap upward from the roots to the leaves, stores food in the form of complex carbohydrates, and provides support; it is made up of various types of cells specialized for each of these purposes. Among them are tracheids, elongated conduction and support cells; parenchyma ( food storage ) cells, some of which form rays for transverse conduction; xylem vessels, formed of hollow cells joined end to end; and fiber cells that reinforce these tubes. In the conifers the xylem is made up mainly of tracheids, thus presenting a uniform, nonporous appearance; their wood is called softwood. Deciduous trees have more complex xylem, permeated by vessels, and are called hardwoods, although the description is sometimes inaccurate.

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