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Photo # NH 104675:  U. S. Navy Harbor Tug No. 85, circa 1919.

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U. S. Navy Harbor Tug No. 85, 1919-1920.

Harbor Tug No. 85, a 215-ton, 88-foot long wooden-hulled tug propelled by a single cylinder steam engine, was built at Brooklyn, New York. She was one of 40 sisters (Harbor Tugs Nos. 46-85) ordered by the Navy in May and June 1918 as part of its World War I emergency shipbuilding effort. The tug was laid down in June 1918, launched in December 1918 and commissioned in July 1919. During 1919 she was assigned as harbor floating equipment to the Fleet Supply Base, Brooklyn, N. Y. and was used for harbor towing. By November 1919 her material condition was rated by her crew as poor because of problems with her engine and boiler that made their operation unsafe for the engine force. In that month the Chief of Naval Operations selected her for transfer to the U.S. Coast Guard, and she was decommissioned at New York at the end of that year. Following an inspection by a board that determined her to be "in first class condition," Harbor Tug No. 85 was transferred to the Coast Guard at New York in January 1920. Renamed USCGC Chillicothe, she was sent to Ogdensburg on the St. Lawrence River in New York and operated on the Great Lakes until decommissioned and sold in 1925.

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Photo #: NH 104675

U. S. Navy Harbor Tug No. 85


Probably photographed soon after completion in 1919.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph,

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Photo #: NH 104676

U. S. Navy Harbor Tug No. 85


Probably photographed while in Navy service at New York in 1919.
Her designation has been painted on the bow and pilot house. The standard hull classification system used by the U. S. Navy since July1920 had not yet been developed.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph,

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Photo #: NH 41620

U. S. Navy Harbor Tug No. 85


Under construction at the Howard E. Wheeler shipyard, Brooklyn, New York. The first frames are being installed shortly after her keel was laid in June 1918.
Behind her is Harbor Tug No. 84, in frame on the same building way.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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Photo #: NH 104706

U. S. Navy "Wood Harbor Tug"


Outboard profile of the Harbor Tug No. 46 class (Nos 46 through 85). This plan by the Navy's Bureau of Construction and Repair is dated 25 April 1919 and is signed by the bureau's chief, Naval Constructor David W. Taylor, USN. Its number is C&R No. 60815.
These tugs measured 88 feet in length and 20 feet in beam, displaced 215 tons, and had a designed speed of 10 knots.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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