Day Peckinpaugh (canal motorship)
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DAY PECKINPAUGH, (canal motorship)
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Day Peckinpaugh docked at Albany on her maiden voyage in 1921
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Matton Shipyard, Van Schaick Island, Cohoes, New York |
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| Coordinates | 42°46′43″N 73°40′48″W / 42.77861°N 73.68000°WCoordinates: 42°46′43″N 73°40′48″W / 42.77861°N 73.68000°W |
| Built | 1921 |
| Architect | McDougal-Duluth, MN, builder; Todd Shipyard, Brooklyn, NY, rebuild |
| Architectural style | canal motorship |
| NRHP Reference # | 05001486 |
| Added to NRHP | December 28, 2005 |
Day Peckinpaugh is a historic canal motorship berthed at the Matton Shipyard on Peebles Island,Cohoes in Albany County, New York.
Day Peckinpaugh was built in 1921 by the McDougall-Duluth Shipyard in Duluth, MN, the first boat specially designed and built for New York State Barge Canal, the successor to the famed Erie Canal. The ship was originally named ILI101 after the ship's first owner, the Interwaterways Lines Inc of New York City. The ship was the first specifically designed to ply the open waters of the Great Lakes as well as the narrow locks and shallow waterways of the barge canal. Day Peckinpaugh is also the last surviving ship from a fleet of more than 100 of her type that once carried freight from the upper Midwest to the port of New York City.
At a length of 259 feet (79 m) and width of 36 feet (11 m), she is among the largest boats to operate on New York’s canal system where the maximum area available for vessels in a lock is 300 feet (91 m) long by 43.5 feet (13.3 m) wide. With a 14-foot (4.3 m) deep hold and a carrying capacity of 1,650 tonnes (1,620 long tons; 1,820 short tons), Day Peckinpaugh was well suited as a bulk carrier in which she hauled wheat, flax seed, rye, sugar, and in the early years pig iron.
ILI101 was rechristened Richard J. Barnes in 1922 to honor the man who originally commissioned the ship.
During World War II, Richard J. Barnes was drafted into the US Merchant Marine to carry coal and refuel cargo ships along the east coast of the United States. During her Merchant Marine service Richard J. Barnes was attacked by a German U-Boat which fired a torpedo at her; the torpedo was thought to have passed under the ship due to her shallow seven foot draft.
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