OT: (Marine)You thought locomotives were expensive?

eze240 · **Joined:** Sat Feb 06, 2010 9:29 am **Posts:** 319

Anyone remember what happened to the Cabot? She was the last of the light aircraft carriers built on a cruiser hull.
Owned by a non profit preservation group.....then conveniently sold for scrap even when there were other groups wanting to preserve her. There appeared to have been some odd internal politics and money problems going on with that group.....

Alan Walker · **Posted:** Fri May 22, 2015 12:28 pm

Nova55 wrote:

What is a crying shame is the lack of tugboats preserved in this country.

PRR and NY Central were both running steam tugs right until 1968.

Very, very few RR marine vessels have been preserved, let alone your everyday tugboat, covered barge, etc.

But, the costs kill it. To drydock a tug for a normal, 5 year scheduled period (what most insurance wants), is 75-100k...

True. That said, there is a sizable market for them in the yacht world-big enough to be comfortable, yet small enough to be handled by a couple of skilled sailors and cheaper by far to insure and operate than a larger vessel.

eze240 · **Joined:** Sat Feb 06, 2010 9:29 am **Posts:** 319

I think there are now only two remaining railcar ferrys....Badger and Spartan.
The Viking was cut down into a barge a few months ago and the Arthur Atkinson was scrapped late last year....
Wasn't there a railroad owned tug for sale around a year or so ago?

Nova55 · **Joined:** Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:09 pm **Posts:** 597

PCook wrote:

When the CVS Pharmacy had the New York Central #16 scrapped after purchasing the restaurant property where it was stuffed and mounted, the New Bedford Standard Times ran an article about how the pieces of the tug were going to form the basis for a restored and operable vessel that would be returning to Massachusetts on tour in the future. Of course it was all fluff, the tug ended up as a pile of scrap metal and was hauled away.

PC

And what is left (Wheelhouse, stack, engine) are sitting on private property, going back to the earth... Would be great if a society was interested in them..

p51 · **Posted:** Sat May 23, 2015 7:15 pm

eze240 wrote:

Anyone remember what happened to the Cabot? She was the last of the light aircraft carriers built on a cruiser hull.
Owned by a non profit preservation group.....then conveniently sold for scrap even when there were other groups wanting to preserve her. There appeared to have been some odd internal politics and money problems going on with that group.....

yep, I saw her tied up in new Orleans in 97.
The only escort carrier from ww2 left. So sad...