Toward an American Ship Trust-If We're Serious about Saving our Heritage in Historic Ships

摘要

For nearly a quarter century, her jaunty stack, sweeping sheer and lofty pilot house carried a spirited maritime message to people en route to Cape Cod, as New York Central No. 16, a surviving steam tug of 1924, lay in a restaurant parking lot at the entrance to the Bourne Bridge. CVS bought the site to erect one of their chain pharmacies and ordered the tug removed within an unreasonably short time-frame for anyone to do anything about it. Nevertheless, Charles Schneider of Massachusetts rallied support and got the mayor of Bayonne, NJ, to commit to take on stewardship of the tug and create a waterfront park exhibit at the entrance to Newark Bay, where ships carrying the world's commerce still pass by daily. McAllister Towing offered a free tow on a barge from Buzzards Bay to Bayonne, and others committed to getting the tug from the barge to the site.