GATUN tug

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Built as a tug by Neafie & Levy, Philadelphia for Booth, Dailey & Ivins of New York City.
Launched as H.B. CHAMBERLAIN.
Tonnage 164 gross, 111 net, dim. 101 x 22 x 22.6ft (draught).
One 2-cyl. a compound steam engine, 42 nhp, speed?
1902 Completed.

1906 Sold to the Isthmian Canal Commission for USA$42,000 and renamed in GATUN.
26 September 1913 she made the initial passage of the Gatun Locks in the Panama Canal.
15 August 1914 she assisted the ANCON to make her first official passage through the Panama Canal.
1931 Did she belong to the Donaldson Towing & Lightering Co., Philadelphia, and named POINT BREEZE.
1936 Sold to Curtis Bay Towing, Philadelphia, and renamed CHESTER.
Lloyds 1955/56 gives that she is owned by Donaldson Towing & Lichtering Co., Wilmington still under the name CHESTER.
1958 Scrapped in the fall of that year.

Panama 1955 1b sg574, scott C156.

Source: Log Book. Lloyds Register

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Marshall Islands 2014, $5,60