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Tugboats (7/8)

A tugboat is a small sturdy and powerful vessel designed to push or tow other vessels and barges

You will see them in every sizable port; smart, businesslike small ships, low in the water and surging out to a large inbound ship. Tugs represent power for pushing and pulling, an engine with just enough hull for adequate buoyancy. Thick fenders for close-quarters work, pushing a big ship alongside the quay against the wind, hauling her off at the end of a towing wire.

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Tamaroa WMEC-166

Type:: artificial reef, fleet tugboat, cutter
Built:: 1943, Commercial Iron Works, Portland, OR, as USS Zuni AT-95
Specs:: ( 205 x 38 ft ) 1,235 tons (light)
Sunk:: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 - DelJerseyLand Artificial Reef
GPS:: 38°31.144' -74°30.747'
Depth:: 125 ft

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TD-21 DPC-21

Type:: artificial reef, tugboat
Built:: 1944, Lawley & Sons, Neponset MA, as DPC-21
Specs:: ( 86 x 24 ft ) 146 GT, 9 crew
Sunk:: Saturday June 22, 2024 - Delaware #11 Artificial Reef
GPS:: 38°40.427' -74°43.073'

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Canal Tender 6

Type:: artificial reef, tugboat
Built:: late 1920s?
Specs:: ( 40 ft )
Sunk:: Thursday May 31, 2018 - Shinnecock Artificial Reef
Depth:
GPS:: 40°48.071' -72°28.655'

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Canal Tenders 7 & 8

Type:: artificial reef, tugboat
Built:: late 1920s?
Specs:: ( 40 ft )
Sunk:: Thursday July 19, 2018 - Smithtown Artificial Reef
Depth:
GPS:: #7: 40°55.977' -73°11.110'
#8: 40°55.958' -73°11.098'

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Thames

Type:: shipwreck, tugboat, USA
Built:: 1885, USA
Specs:: ( 55 ft )
Sunk:: autumn 1973; foundered - no casualties
Depth:: 100 ft

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Thomas Hebert

Type:: shipwreck, tugboat
Built:: 1975, Orange TX USA
Specs:: ( 89 x 27 ft ) 99 tons, 7 crew
Sunk:: Sunday March 7, 1993
cause unknown - two survivors
Depth:: 140 ft

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Tibor

Type:: artificial reef, tugboat
Built:: 1957, Gladding-Hearn Shipbuilding, Somerset, Massachusetts, as Dick Perini
Specs:: ( 45 x 14 ft ) 21 gross tons
Sunk:: Thursday June 29, 2023 - Barnegat Light Artificial Reef
GPS:: 39°45.792' -74°01.191'

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Tobacco Pointe

Type:: artificial reef, tugboat, USA
Built:: 1954, Calumet Shipyard & Drydock, Calumet IL as Sharon Lee
Specs:: ( 89 x 26 ft ) 167 gross tons
Sponsor:: thesportfishngfund.org, Ann E Clark Foundation
Sunk:: Thursday June 16, 2016 - Atlantic City Artificial Reef
GPS:: 39°14.038' -74°12.568'
Depth:: 75 ft

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Troy

Type:: artificial reef, tugboat, USA
Built:: 1955, Matton Shipyard, Cohoes NY USA as Matton
Specs:: ( 90 x 20 ft )
Sponsor:: Joe Williams, Ocean City Marlin & Tuna Club, Atlantic County Party & Charter Boat Association
Sunk:: Friday April 27, 1990 - Atlantic City Artificial Reef
GPS:: 39°15.290' -74°14.060'
Depth:: 75 ft

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USS Cherokee ID-458

Type:: shipwreck, tugboat, US Navy
Name:: An Indian tribe of Pennsylvania and New York, later relocated to Oklahoma.
Built:: 1891, John H. Dialogue & Son, Camden NJ USA, as Edgar F. Luckenbach
Specs:: ( 120 x 25 ft ) 272 gross tons, 20 crew
Sunk:: Tuesday July 26, 1918
foundered in storm - 10 survivors
Depth:: 90 ft

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Siphonophores

Siphonophores are free-floating or swimming colonial hydroids. All siphonophores are predatory and should be treated with respect for their venomous sting. Some of the individual animals along the length of the colony provide tentacles for defense (dactylozooids) and food capture, while others may function as swimming bells (nectophores), aid flotation (pneumatophore), provide additional defense (bracts), digest prey (gastrozooids), or serve for reproductive functions (gonozooids.) Whether siphonophores are single individuals or colonies of well-integrated polymorphic hydroid and medusoid individuals is a matter of debate among specialists.

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