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US Army Personnel Boat Q-6
Awards, Citations and Campaign Ribbons
World War I Victory Medal
Q-1 Class Personnel Boat:
Built by Luders Marine Construction, Stamford, CT (YN 156)
Completed for Army as personnel boat Q-6, 1918
Transferred to Public Health Service as Luther W. Jenkins, circa 1920
Used as boarding launch at Pensacola, FL, 1922 - 1927
Transferred to US Army Engineers as launch, name retained, 1935
Used as gas launch, Mobile Engineering District, 1935 - 1938
Sold and registered to Byron Hanford, Pensacola, FL, as tug Tallahassee (ON 238717), 1938
Registered to Eugene S. Hayford, Pensacola, FL, 1944
Registered to Maxey Launch & Towing Service, Mobile, AL, 1947
Registered to John R. Maxey, Port Arthur, TX, 1948
Registered to E.R. Slade, Port Arthur, TX, 1949
Registered to Satex Marine and Industrial Service Corp., Port Arthur, TX, 1950
Registered to Pen Marine Operators, Inc., Port Arthur, TX, 1952
Final Disposition, out of documentation, 1957
Specifications:
Displacement unknown
Length 61' 0"
Beam 12' 8"
Draft 7' 0"
Speed unknown
Complement unknown
Propulsion
one Frisco Standard gas engine
single propeller, 60 hp
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