Specifications:
Displacement 230 tons
Length 92'6"
Beam 21'1"
Draft 9'
Speed 12 knots
Complement unknown
Armament none
Propulsion steam, single screw
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351k | An alternate spelling for the Pennacook, a loose confederation of Algonquian-speaking Native Americans dwelling in what became Massachusetts, New Hampshire and southern Maine. The exact spelling "Penacook" refers to a specific village in what is now Concord, New Hampshire. The name roughly translates (derived from Abenaki penakuk) as "at the bottom of the hill." Mainly dwelling in the Merrimack valley, the Pennacook were among the first tribes to encounter European colonists; the epidemics brought to America in the 16th and 17th centuries by these colonists killed nearly ninety percent of the tribe. King Philip's War further decimated their numbers. The English enslaved some survivors, while others fled to the Hudson Valley and Quebec, where they were absorbed
into the Abenaki. Photo of New Hampshire Pennacook historical marker, photographed by Douglas Finney, 08 February 2019, via HMdb.org |
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| Penacook (Harbor Tug No. 6) |
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382k | Penacook (Harbor Tug No. 6) underway during the early 1900s. Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 43698 |
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712k | Penacook (Harbor Tug No. 6) underway In an East Coast harbor, circa the 1900-1915 era.
Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 103285, donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2005. |
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38k | Penacook (Harbor Tug No. 6) dressed with flags for a holiday, circa 1901-1902, probably at the U.S. Naval Station, Port Royal, South Carolina.
Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 103419, courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Rear Admiral Raymond Hunter. |
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59k | Penacook (Harbor Tug No. 6) underway during a trip from Port Royal Naval Station, South Carolina, to Savannah, Georgia, circa 1901-1902.
Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 103417, courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Rear Admiral Raymond Hunter. |
Dave Wright | |
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64k | Penacook (Harbor Tug No. 6) alongside a coal barge, circa 1901-1902, probably at the U.S. Naval Station, Port Royal, South Carolina.
Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 103418, courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. Collection of Rear Admiral Raymond Hunter. |
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1743k | Inspection party of Japanese Admiral Togo Heihachiro disembarking from Penacook at Brooklyn Navy Yard, 15 August 1911. (This photo was previously misidentified as Powhatan). Library of Congress photo LC-B2-2283-4 |
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| Penacook (YT-6) |
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471k | Penacook (YT-6) towing the sunken submarine Squalus (SS-192), 12 August 1939, after Squalus had been lifted off the sea bottom and supported by salvage pontoons. Wandank (AT-26) and Penacook (YT-6) are towing, while Falcon (ASR-2) acted as restraining ship. There are groups of three pontoons each visible on the surface at the submerged submarine's bow and stern. One more pontoon was underwater at the bow and three more at the stern.
Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 57509 |
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119k | Penacook (YT-6) alongside the salvaged submarine Squalus (SS-192) at Portsmouth Navy Yard, 15 September 1939. Note her pilothouse was raised to increase visibility sometime in the previous twenty years.
Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection, accession number 08_06_023247 (cropped) |
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50k | Bow shot of Penacook (YT-6), taken at same time as above shot.
Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection, accession number 08_06_023246 (cropped) |
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608k | Penacook with another unidentified YT behind, alongside the just launched Pipefish (SS-388) at Portsmouth Navy Yard, 12 October 1943. USN photo courtesy of ussubvetsofwwii.org. |
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111k | Neptune Line tug Peter C. Gallagher, underway in New York harbor, May 1964. Photo copyright Francis Palmer. | Dave Boone | |
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271k | Neptune Line tug Peter C. Gallagher, moored pierside at New York, 27 April 1968. Cunard's Franconia of 1955 is moored in the background. Photographer unknown. | Dave Boone | |
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