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Tulagi


Towboat:
  • Built in 1943 for the Defense Plant Corp (DPC 606) by Jeffersonville Boat and Machine, Jeffersonville, IN.
  • Launched in 1943
  • Completed by Marietta Manufacturing Co., Marietta, W.VA.
  • Leased to Inland Waterways Corporation, circa April 1944
  • Sold in 1957 as a pump boat
  • Final Disposition, fate unknown
    Specifications:
    Displacement 1016 t.
    Length 180'
    Beam 52'
    Hull Depth unknown
    Draft 11'
    Speed unknown
    Crew unknown
    Propulsion
    two reciprocating steam engines
    two propellers

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    Tulagi
    303020902
    86k
    Namesake
    Tulagi - An island of the south central Solomons in the southwestern Pacific. Located south of Florida Island and north of Guadalcanal, Tulagi was the scene of the beginning of the struggle for the Solomon Islands when Japanese forces occupied the island on 3 May 1942. It was captured by United States Marines later that year when they landed there on 7 August and wrestled control of the island from the Japanese. (Navsource)
    Photo - Marines wade ashore at "Beach Blue" on Tulagi, August 7, 1942. (Office of Naval Intelligance, The landing in the Solomons, August 7-8 1942, Chapter 13 The Landing in the Tulagi Area, Aug. 7)
    Map - Landings on and engagements across Tulagi (Memnon335bc - Own work based on: Aerial reconnaissance photos from May/June 1942 as well Alexander, Joseph H. (2001) Edson's Raiders - The 1st Marine Raider Battalion in World War II, Annapolis, p. 91. Licenced under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 unported)
    Tommy Trampp
    Tulagi
    303020901
    110k Tulagi underway near Point Pleasant W.VA., 7 April 1944
    303020901-Tugster Files World Press
    303020903-Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library
    John Spivey
    Tulagi
    303020903
    100k

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