Page 14. MAINE COASTAL NEWS January 2009
Tugboat News on the Coast of Maine
Portland Tugboat LLC received their only a couple of jobs. The next job is not Because she was double plated, she did not This same crew then headed for Petit
newest tug, the ANDREW MCALLISTER, expected until the next ship sails in January. suffer much internal damage. She is now Manan, where they are putting in a new boat
following her christening in New York on 28 The dump scow has been rented to scheduled to be launched in September ramp for the U. S. Fish & Wildlife
August. She arrived in Portland in Patriot Marine of New London, 2009. Department.
September. ANDREW is a 98-foot 6,000-hp Connecticut. Their tug, SOUTHERN CROSS There is a lot more damage to the 92- Another crew is dredging down to 12
Z-drive tug, which cost over $7,000,000. was on her way to Bath to pick up the scow footer, hull #95, including much of the feet in Lermond’s Cove at Rockland.
As for work this fall, Captain Brian when she sank in Buzzard’s Bay early this equipment that was already installed. She is Prock is also transiting from Port Clyde
Fournier said that it has been busy, fall. slowly being worked on, but is not a priority to Monhegan, where they are rebuilding the
especially November. This November the for her owners. town dock. They have been out there
Port of Portland had several cargoes of dry Out of the ashes are rising two new Hulls 96 and 97, both 98 footers, are October and November, and do not expect to
goods arrive, such as coal and paper. Since tugs, two others being rebuilt and a new big more of a priority. Units for these were built be finished until after the first of the year.
this is normally a petroleum port, this was a building at Washburn & Doughty in East at Skowhegan by some of the displaced
great addition. However, Captain Fournier Boothbay following their fire in mid- Washburn & Doughty workers just after the It is business as usual Penobscot Bay
did not see it continuing into December. summer. fire to accelerate the building process. Tractor Company, as the business has been
When asked about the 30 cruise ships The new building was designed by the These are scheduled to be launched in good and steady this summer and fall.
that visited the Port of Portland this fall, Sheridan Corporation of Fairfield, who is October 2009. As said above, the first barge is to arrive
Captain Fournier said that they only also erecting it. The building will be more at Cianbro in Brewer in January. As yet no
assisted in docking four of them. This is due than 35,000 square feet with two bays, which Prock Marine in Rockland has had a assist tugboat company has been named for
to the fact that many of them have bow will handle two vessels, with beams up to 50- busy fall. They had a tug and barge up in this project. Captain Doug Fournier, who
thrusters and do not require tugs to dock feet, per bay. With the Rice yard this will Brewer for several months getting the berth runs Penobscot Bay Tractor Company, said
them. make them very flexible. at Cianbro ready to receive 400-foot barges. that he did not think that a company would
The first phase of the building has been They were there longer than expected when be named until a couple of weeks before the
Winslow Marine on Southport Island started and the east bay has its steel framing it was discovered that the ledge was higher scheduled arrival.
has had their new barge busy this fall. Her in place and is now being enclosed. The shell than thought. This meant that they had to Their tractor tug is scheduled to go in
first job was to move a transformer from a will be completed in December, with the ends drill inside the piles and put in stringers, the shipyard next, year, likely in the spring or
ship to Cousins Island at Yarmouth, Maine. open. The entire building will not be which is a heavy H-pile inside the pipe pile. summer. It is their hope that the YTB
She then came up to Searsport and picked up completed until next summer. The Cianbro facility is building sections for MENOMINEE, which is working at the Cape
a coal hopper and took that to Portland. She Both of the tugs in the building at the the oil refinery at Port Arthur, Texas. The Cod Canal, will be up here early this winter
is now scheduled to head to New York in time of the fire, the 121-foot ATB and the 92- first barge is expected to arrive in January. to replace the single screw tug CAPE
January to load another transformer and foot Z-drive, are being saved. The ATB, hull The barge than moved down to ROZIER.
take that to Boston. #94, has had some of her hull plating Winterport and moved a railroad barge
Winslow does a lot of the work at Bath removed due to damage from the heat of the ashore to be cut up for scrap.
Iron Works in Bath, but this fall, there were fire and salt water used to put the fire out.
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