The BEATRICE BUSH, 1905

This is a view of the Beatrice Bush from Weehawken, New Jersey, looking toward mid-Manhattan. This well-known tug was built in 1905 by Robert Palmer & Sons Shipbuilding Company, Noank, Connecticut. By the late 1950’s the Beatrice Bush was one of the last wooden-hulled tugs still working for a railroad, owned by Bush Terminal Railroad in Brooklyn, NY, and operated until her retirement in 1960. She had a length of 28.95 meters ((95 feet) with a two-cylinder, 75 hp, compound steam engine from Neafie & Levy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On December 16, 1944, she towed out the burning munitions laden SS El Estero from her pier in New York to be scuttled.

oil on wood panel, 10” x 22”

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This is a view of the BEATRICE BUSH from Weehawken, New Jersey, looking toward mid-Manhattan. This well-known tug was built in 1905 by Robert Palmer & Sons Shipbuilding Company, Noank, Connecticut. By the late 1950’s the Beatrice Bush was one of the last wooden-hulled tugs still working for a railroad, owned by Bush Terminal Railroad in Brooklyn, NY, and operated until her retirement in 1960. She had a length of 28.95 meters ((95 feet) with a two-cylinder, 75 hp, compound steam engine from Neafie & Levy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On December 16, 1944, she towed out the burning munitions laden SS El Estero from her pier in New York to be scuttled.