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McAllister Towing & Transportation

McAllister Towing is one of the oldest and largest marine towing and transportation companies in the United States. They operate a fleet of more than seventy tugboats and twelve barges along the East Coast from Portland, Maine to San Juan, Puerto Rico.

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AJ McAllister

Type:: artificial reef, tugboat
Built:: 1939, Slidell LA as Rowen Card
Specs:: ( 106 x 26 ft ) 263 tons
Sponsor:: Ann E Clark Foundation
Dedication:: Ann E Clark
Sunk:: Thursday Sept 25, 2003 - Deepwater Artificial Reef
GPS:: 39°58.004' -74°10.721'

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Captain Bill / Veronica M

Type:: artificial reef, tugboat, McAllister Towing (Boston)
Built:: 1950, Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY as Hazleton
Specs:: ( 110 x 27 ft ) 199 gross tons
Sponsor:: Herb & Veronica Segars
Dedication:: Veronica Segars
Sunk:: Wednesday November 10, 2004 - Axel Carlson Artificial Reef
GPS:: 40°03.104' -73°59.283'
Depth:: 75 ft

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Cecilia J Brown DPC-42

Type:: artificial reef, tugboat, USA
Built:: 1944 Decatur AL USA
Specs:: ( 81 x 24 ft )
Sponsor:: Cape May County Party & Charter Boat Association, Artificial Reef Association, Sportfish Fund
Sunk:: Monday August 16, 1993 - Cape May Artificial Reef
GPS:: 38°52.950' -74°40.200'
Depth:: 60 ft

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Celtic / Cape Race

Type:: Celtic - shipwreck, canal tugboat, USA
Cape Race - shipwreck, barge, USA
Built:: Celtic - 1958, USA
Specs:: Celtic - ( 85 ft ) 6 crew
Cape Race - ( 150 ft )
Sunk:: Saturday November 17, 1984
barge foundered, pulling tug down with it - no survivors
Depth:: 60 ft

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Patrice McAllister

Type:: shipwreck, tugboat, USA
Built:: 1919, New Orleans LA USA, as Degrey
Specs:: ( 94 x 24 ft ) 201 gross tons, no crew
Sunk:: Monday October 4, 1976
foundered in storm while under tow - no casualties
Depth:: 55 ft

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Steven McAllister

Type:: artificial reef, tugboat, McAllister Towing, USA
Built:: 1949 - 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

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Overview of Fishes

A fish is defined as a limbless aquatic vertebrate animal with fins and internal gills. There are three living classes of fish:

Primitive jawless fishes - class Agnatha
Cartilaginous fishes - class Chondrichthyes
Bony fishes - class Osteichthyes

These groups, although quite different from one another anatomically, have certain common features related to their common evolutionary origins or to their aquatic way of life. Fish were the earliest vertebrates, and presumably evolved from a group of aquatic lower chordates; the terrestrial vertebrates evolved from fishes.

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