Eugene F Moran

Shipwreck Eugene F. Moran
Note the tall skinny steam-engine stack
Type:
shipwreck, tugboat, USA
Built:
1902, Neafie & Levy, Philadelphia PA USA as Charles E. Matthews
Specs:
( 91 x 22 ft ) 164 gross tons, 11 crew
Sunk:
Sunday December 9, 1917
foundered in storm - no survivors
Depth:
25 ft

Built in 1902, by the Neafie and Levy Engine Building Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as the Charles E. Matthews for the Dailey and Ivins Company. In 1906, the tug was acquired by the Moran Towing Company of New York, New York, and renamed as the Eugene F. Moran. In 1916, she was acquired by the British Government. However, the tug was lost while in transit to her new owners. She was a single screw tug, rated at 1,000 horsepower.

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Shipwreck Eugene F. Moran
The Eugene F Moran's (probable) twin sister Julia C Moran of 1902

completely demolished

Photo courtesy of McAllister Towing.


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schooner barge
A beached schooner barge. Compare the hull form with a square barge.

The schooner barge was the final development of the working sailing ship. The design originally evolved in the 1870s on the Great Lakes, where it was found that sailing ships could be more profitably towed from place to place than sailed. No longer subject to the vagaries of the wind, such trips could be made on a scheduled basis, and with reduced labor costs. The idea spread into general use, resulting in the conversion of many sailing ships into barges. Ironically, most of the vessels that were converted to schooner barges were not actually schooners, but square-rigged ships. Square-riggers, with their large and expensive crews of skilled sailors, became uneconomical to operate in the face of ever-improving steam power, while more efficient schooners managed to compete for a few years longer.

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