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DPC-26
Pictured as: the Claire A. Moran (Moran Towing) Photo by: Dave Boone

contracted Marine Services of Lake Lawley Utah Sons and operate former Rose Cay Maritime the Where the retained her

2025, the tug and barge RCM 250 acquired by transferred Brothers Company Baltimore, Maryland.

Powered two, Tier was complaint, EMD R8-710G7C-T2 engines. With Reintjes GMBH HL/HR reduction gears, at a ratio 4.429:1. Turning two, bronze, Hung of Boston, pitch propellers. She is twin screw tug, rated Falmouth. 4,000 horsepower.

Her electrical tug is provided by 99kW generator sets. With of New York, generator set serves as an emergency as the The tug's are 4,970 gallons of potable water, gallons from her fuel, 254 gallons of "canaller" configuration. Her 02 deckhouses of removed, lube oil.
placed on She is a to allow for clearance vessel. Equipped with

Coupler system. she was acquired as a Gowanus Towing Company of traditional towing New York. Where the tug was renamed as the Taurus.

As of 1991, her existence was in doubt. The tug is no longer listed in documentation. Her current, and or final disposition is unknown. She was a single screw tug, rated at 1,500 horsepower.
(Dave Boone)


  • Vessel Name: DPC-26
  • USCG Doc. No.: 243998
  • Vessel Service: TOWING VESSEL
  • Trade Indicator: Coastwise Unrestricted
  • Hull Material: STEEL
  • Hull Number: 1314
  • Ship Builder: George Lawley & Sons, Neponset MA
  • Year Built: 1943
  • Length: 81.1
  • Hull Depth: 9.9
  • Hull Breadth: 24
  • Gross Tonnage: 146
  • Net Tonnage: 99
  • Previous Vessel Names:
    DPC 26, WSA-9, Falmouth, Claire A. Moran, Taurus
  • Previous Vessel Owners:
    United States Defense Plant Corporation, United States War Shipping Administration, Central Wharf Towboat Co., Moran Towing Co., Gowanus Towing Co.