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Tugboat W.O. Decker

This model is hand-crafted from hard wood with planks on frame construction method.

Specifications
Suggest model from 24" - 32" hull length

HISTORY

The wooden tugboat W.O. Decker was built in Long Island City, Queens in 1930 for the Newtown Creek Towing Company, a firm specializing in berthing ships and barges in the creek that separates Brooklyn and Queens. Originally called Russell I for the towing company’s owners, she was renamed the W.O. Decker in 1946 after being sold to the Decker family’s Staten Island tugboat firm. One of the last steam-powered tugs built in this harbor; she was later refitted with a diesel engine. In 1986, the W.O. Decker was donated to South Street Seaport Museum.  (Source: http://southstreetseaportmuseum.org)
 

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Packing:

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Model is packed fully assembled in wooden crate and put in the carton.

Model is ready for display.

 

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