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LT-814


Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons

Precedence of awards is from left to right
American Campaign Medal - World War II Victory Medal


Tug:
  • Laid down in 1945 as a US Army design 254 steel hull tug at Marietta Manufacturing, Point Pleasant, W.V.
  • Launched in 1945
  • Delivered in April 1945 to the US Army Quartermaster Corps
  • Allocated to the US Army Transportation Corps, placed in service in April 1945 as LT-814
  • Retired from US Army service in 1945
  • Acquired in 1945 by Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, named A.T.& S.F. No.8
  • Renamed, date unknown, Paul P Hastings
  • Acquired, circa 1984 by Robert Whipple of American Navigation, renamed Terminator
  • Final Disposition, sank of Point Arena, CA. in 1992
    Specifications:
    Displacement 592 t.(gross), 227t.(net)
    Length 142'2'"
    Beam 31'1"
    Draft 16'
    Speed unknown
    Complement unknown
    Cruise Radius unknown
    Propulsion As Built
    two Babcock &Wilcox water tube boilers
    one three-cylinder Skinner Uniflow steam engine of 1,200 hp (890 kW)
    single propeller
    Propulsion 1964 Rebuild
    one 1,600 hp (1,200 kW) General Motors 567C EMD F-7 engine
    single propeller

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    LT-814
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    79k Ex-US Army tugboat LT-814 as the Santa Fe Railroad tug Paul P. Hastings at China Basin in San Francisco, CA. in 1982
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