The tug that launched a million plastic model kits.

Built 1943 at Decatur, Alabama, USA, by Decatur Iron & Steel Co., hull no. 68, as *DPC 68* for the Defense Plant Corp., Washington, DC. 81.1’ x 24 x 9.8; 146 gt, 99 nt; 8-cylinder Cleveland Diesel (EMD), 8.5” x 10, 700-bhp.

Later *WSA 26,* *Long Beach,* Jessie B.,* *Long Beach,* and *Clifford G.* Repowered 1982: 12-cylinder EMD Diesel, 1200-bhp. Still in documentation as a towing vessel, owned at Fairfield, California.