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Working Harbor Committee
 of New York/New Jersey

Tugboat Rides
Aboard the Seaport Museum's historic 1930 tug
W. O. Decker

Narrated by Capt. John Doswell

September Tours - 6:30 to 8 pm
October Tours to be announced soon
Pier 16 - South Street Seaport

 3 September Tickets Available Here 

 17 September Tickets Available Here 

 24 September Tickets Available Here 

For information on charters on W. O. Decker or working tug Cornell, contact John@WorkingHarbor.Org

 

 

 

      

A little history about W.O. Decker:


Net Tonnage: 18 Length: 52 ft. Breadth: 15 ft. Depth: 5.6 ft. Horsepower: 175 Draft: 6

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 the 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 the museum, where she is used in a variety of ways, from daily waterfront maintenance to private charters.

 


 
 
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