Eppleton Hall

[getakey]

Quite a journey for this old tugboat (and the crew)

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Eppleton-Hall-tugboat-sails-into-S-F-history-5175538.php

 

[pdecat]

I wonder how they carried enough coal to cross the Atlantic

 

[damaib]

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Originally posted by pdecat

I wonder how they carried enough coal to cross the Atlantic

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The article says they carried 75 barrels of diesel fuel on the deck. It is an oil burner.

 

[getakey]

at a 5 knot cruise, that was a long trip

 

[Sandy]

Wonderful story of a true old classic.

This was a hilarious description:
" "It wasn't love at first sight. In a book about his tugboat adventure, Newhall wrote that when he first saw the tug it was sitting on a mud bank "half full of water, burned out, rusted, bedraggled, and an object of beauty only in the eyes of a true necrophile." "