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*LT 653.* Steel single screw tug built 1944 at Pt. Pleasant, WVA, by the Marietta Manufacturing Co. as hull no. 519 for the U. S. Army. 142.2 x 33.1 x 16; 573 gt, 389 nt; three-cylinder Skinner Unaflow steam engine, 24.5 x 24, 1200-ihp; twin Babcock & Wilcox water tube boilers, 223 psi wp. Sold 1948 to the Pennsylvania RRCo., Philadelphia, and renamed *Bloxom* 251109. Used to tow carfloats on the Chesapeake River out of Cape Charles, VA. Sold 1972 to Witte Marine Equipment Co., Inc., Staten Island, NY, for demolition. |
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