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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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Artificial Reefs History

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Pauline Marie reef
The Pauline Marie sinks slowly on the Atlantic City Reef.

By Evelyn DeWitt Myatt & Bill Figley, 1986

It's hard to imagine anything that could have looked more forlorn than the rusty old freighter whose proud seagoing days were a thing of the past. Floating idly at her berth awaiting her fate, she was a victim of nature's ravages that had left her beautiful only in the eyes of her old captain and crew. The Pauline Marie, however, was not destined to be the victim of a cutting torch that would turn her into a tangle of scrap steel. Instead, she was acquired by the New Jersey Artificial Reef Program and went down with dignity as an artificial reef in March 1985. She now provides continuing services from her watery grave in the Atlantic, some twelve miles off Atlantic City, and her appeal to marine life is undeniable. Her interior compartments now shelter fish and crustaceans; her decks now provide substrate for mussels, soft corals, and plant life; and her newfound productivity has put delicious seafood on many tables.

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