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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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August 12, 2022

Hope for Dutch Springs

August 12, 2022

Dutch Springs has new owners and a new name. The aqua park is gone, but here’s when divers might return to popular quarry

By Anthony Salamone
The Morning Call
Lehigh Valley News
Jul 27, 2022

Divers by a sunken boat called the Silver Comet at Dutch Springs, a 50-acre water park and scuba diving site since 1980 that features a 100-foot-deep water filled quarry, north of Bethlehem, Nov. 23, 2021. The Dutch Springs quarry has been acquired by a pair of owners, who plan to resume scuba diving at the Northampton County site next year with a new name: Lake Hydra.
(Michael Turek/The New York Times)

Nearly a year after news leaked about its potential sale for warehousing, the Dutch Springs quarry has new owners and a new name.

Former Northampton County Council member Kenneth Kraft and Jim Folk have bought the water-filled quarry from Trammell Crow Co., which acquired most of the land off Hanoverville Road in Northampton County to develop two warehouses. Financial terms were not disclosed.

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