"how do you spell accurate" ? Neil W. On 8/31/07, Janet & Randy Brown <jananran_@_mymailstation.com> wrote: > > A 92-year-old boat would have been built in 1915 as a steamer. In the > DIAMOND, Vol 12 #2, Ray Baxter's article on Erie's marine operations shows > one boat built by Staten Island Shipbuilding in 1915: the Charles P. > Crawford, later to become the first Akron. The only other tug built by > Staten Island Shipbuilding in that timeframe was the William J. Davidson, > later Binghamton, built in 1914. > > Three other boats were built by Staten Island Shipbuilding as a division > of Bethlehem Steel in 1953: Akron (II), Binghamton and Elmira. > > If the news story underlying the caption in Railpace is accutatre, the > boat sunk at Red Bird Reef is the first Akron, ne Charles P. Crawford. > > Randy Brown > > The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List > Sponsored by the ELH&TS > http://www.elhts.org > To Unsubscribe: http://lists.elhts.org/erielackunsub.html > The Erie Lackawanna Mailing List Sponsored by the ELH&TS http://www.elhts.org To Unsubscribe: http://lists.elhts.org/erielackunsub.html ------------------------------
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