New Jersey Scuba Diving

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'

Built in 1939, by Canulette Shipbuilding Company of Slidell, Louisiana (hull #983) as the Rowen Card for the Card Towing Company of Norfolk, Virginia. In 1940, she was acquired by the United States Navy and designated YN-44 Tamaha. Later redesignated as the YNT-12. In 1947, the tug was returned to the Card Towing Company of Norfolk, Virginia, and renamed Rowen Card.

In 1947, she was acquired by the McAllister Brothers Towing Company of New York, New York, and renamed A.J. McAllister. Repowered in 1960, she was a single screw tug rated at 1,800 horsepower.